Özet:

Although environmentalist and ecological thought, which deal with the relationship between human being and nature, go back to the times immemorial, it can be said that environmentalist approaches and ecological ideas emerged as a reaction to the destruction in social life and in nature caused by rapid change and transformation process which occured as a result of endustrial revoulution. However, modern environmentalist politics and ecologism as an ideological identity emerged after 1950’s. Globalising environmental problems, which have been created by the expansion of endustrialisation and urbanisation to the global level and by the rapid economic growth, have rasied concern for the future of both human kind and our planet. In this context, differentiating itself from those environmentalist approaches, which tries to solve environmental problems in reformist methods with a human centric perspective, ecologism as a new ideological movement, which aims to solve environmental problems in radical methods with an environment (or nature) centric holistic perspective and with a new moralist vision, has emerged. This study aims to explain the nature of ecological identity by uncovering the process in which ecological identity has emerged, the factors which have been effective within this process, and the ways in which ecological identity have differntiated itself from other environmentalist approcahes.

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