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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Human-nature relationships"”.
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Art on the ground: An exploration into human-nature relationships
Dýpri skilnings er þörf á sambandi manna og náttúrunnar. Þetta verður æ mikilvægara í ljósi umhverfisvandamála, sem fara vaxandi. Á undanförnum árum hafa ýmsir listamenn um allan heim talað fyrir því að þessi vandamál krefjist viðbragða af menningarlegum og skapandi toga. Þetta á meðal annars við …
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Human-nature relationships and nutrient management practices of Illinois farmers
Human-nature relationships are the way in which people relate to nature. Although this relationship has been extensively theorized, systematic and empirical investigations are numbered. This study of Illinois farmers builds upon the existing typological approaches with a novel framework and …
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Towards more integrated human-nature relationships: A Local Area Spatial Development Framework for the Two Rivers Urban Park (TRUP) Site
… theme and concept of enabling more integrated human-nature relationships through strategic spatial planning. The idea that ecological planning, at a number of scales, should be an integral part of the strategic spatial planning process, in order to enable this integration, was investigated, in …
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ORGANIC IS MORE OF AN AMERICAN TERM--WE ARE TRADITIONAL FARMERS': DISCOURSES OF PLACE-BASED ORGANIC FARMING, COMMUNITY, HERITAGE, AND SUSTAINABILITY
… others) orient toward farming, sustenance, and human-nature relationships through community, family, heritage, education, and resistance to agribusiness models, among other orientations. Finally, the study looks at how these farmers orient toward sustainability, and how they see their work as …
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Sound-mediated environmentalisms in contemporary Tuscany: towards eco-ethnomusicological frameworks in central Italy
… artist offer unique insights into the region's human–nature relationships. Through applied ethnomusicological research, combined with my own artistic practice, I investigated the interplay between musicians, their local environments, and the ways in which performances can address the cultural …
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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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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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Emlanjeni: Reconnecting people with the landscape to promote social interaction
… past is a rich source of knowledge, a record of human experience that we can learn from and draw inspiration from. This thesis resurfaces the landscape memories by introducing social interaction that will reconnect the community. The disconnection of human-nature relationships in this village is …
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Widening the Sweetgrass Road: Re/Balancing Ways of Knowing for Sustainable Living with a Cree-Nishnaabe Medicine Circle
… established to negotiate the complexities of human-nature relationships and balance social, environmental, and economic priorities. The pursuit of sustainability today has been approached primarily from within the dominant Western, neoliberal worldview. In this dissertation, I uphold …
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Meanings of 'the Outdoors': Shaping outdoor education in Aotearoa New Zealand
Abstract The issue of human-nature relationships has become increasingly important given the environmental issues affecting the world. Thus, education which can encourage students to positively engage and connect with the world around them is vital. Outdoor education offers one way to help build …
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Restoring the Earth: South African Literature and Environmental Justice
… the earth” challenges both people-centred and nature-centred ideologies that pit the interests of human communities against those of nonhuman nature. The concept highlights literary processes of identifying, recuperating and recovering human relationships with an expansive notion of “earth”, …
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The scientific and sociocultural value of citizen science
… together innovation and insight from the humanities, arts, business and economics, health, natural and social sciences to address the most pressing challenges facing the planet and its biodiversity. Conservation is also unique in its ability to transcend the academic. Subdisciplines such …