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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Human-nature Relations"”.
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Constructing, Consuming, and Complicating the Human-Nature Binary: Communication Practices in Forest Environmental Education
… into forests to help them reconnect with nature, expand environmental knowledge, and tackle what has been recently termed "nature-deficit disorder." When students visit the sites, rangers deliver structured lessons on ecosystems and forest management to children and chaperones--lessons …
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Ebbs and flows: more-than-human encounters with the Cape Flats Aquifer in a context of climate change
… advocates inclusive and integrated more-than-human relations as humans, technoscience, and nature become increasingly entangled in contexts of climate change and socio-ecological crisis. Researching in the environmental humanities between 2017 and 2020, I situate my study in Cape Town, South …
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Practice-led research into ways the museum is explored as a house of wonder in contemporary sculpture
… The museum has recorded the history of human-nature relations, and has influenced ways in which meaning has been assigned to nature. Its influence over the interpretation of objects has been critiqued by 20th century artists and postmodern theorists. However, the museum also continues to …
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Political ecologies of encounter: mapping enclosures and disruptions in food access
… enclosure as a tactic of governance that shapes human-nature relations in specific ways. I demonstrate how these acts of enclosure bring to the fore certain ecological relations in ways that uphold dominant systems of power, while obfuscating other ecological relations. This allows me to theorize …
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Transforming sustainabilities: grassroots narratives in an age of transition. An ethnography of the dark mountain project
… framing of sustainability as a goal of aligning human needs with protection of the environment has been pursued through various definitions and frameworks in policies and programmes across a wide range of contexts. And yet, unsustainable modes of production and consumption are accelerating the …
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Nature connection: An educational outcome for a sustainable Aotearoa New Zealand
… value systems which drive our interactions and relationships with the material world. The global spread of the dominant social paradigm through Westernisation has been driving the development of our social systems in ways that perpetuate human-nature disconnection (physical and psychological …
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Ideologies of Nature and Sustainability: A critical discourse analysis
In exploring ideologies of nature, sustainability and EE, I have had several goals in mind. Firstly, I want to trace the continuities and disruptions in Western ideologies of nature, and in particular, to locate them within the material context of the historical trajectory of the capitalist mode of …
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The idea of nature in the Daoist classic of Liezi
… This dissertation explores the Liezi’s idea of nature in four aspects: (1) cosmology; (2) view of life; (3) the way to attain harmony and union with nature; and (4) social and political view of human-nature relations. Chapter one explores the Liezi’s cosmology, which presents a holistic and …
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Worldly ecologies: Landscape, history, and environmental politics on Jeju Island
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Mapping and Assessment of changes in ecosystem service delivery - a historical perspective on the Tweed catchment, Scotland - UK
… have been altered and modified through various human activities to maximise provision of tangible benefits like food and water, while impacting on their capacity to provide other less obvious but equally important benefits for human survival. However, in the last few decades, perceptions on the …