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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Social Construction of Nature"”.
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Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: A Case Study of the Jefferson National Forest Planning Process
Environmental decision-making is a tournament of competing conservation agendas in which some values and beliefs are held up and exalted, others are dismissed and ignored, and still others are implicit and unnoticed. Stakeholders compete in the tournament to advance their value systems through the …
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Ethnicity, Nature, and Community Gardens
This thesis explores the use and design of New York City (NYC)’s community gardens, and how the social processes that characterise community gardening influence gardeners’ notions of ethnicity. The study examines the dialectical relationship between nature and culture in community gardens from the …
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"Which Nature?": A Case Study of Whitetop Mountain
In light of the social construction of nature, "new" ecology, and the fact that neither nature nor science (as the systematic study of it) can tell us what the Earth should look like, it becomes evident that numerous (if not infinite) past, present and future natures exist from which society must …
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Exploring Symbolic Aspects Of Human-Environment Interaction In A Socially Constructed Coastscape: Sense Of Place In Coastal Maine
… understand the symbolic, meanings-based aspects of human-environment interaction. Through semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews, the research analyzes how stakeholders perceive and narrate the meanings and experiences related to the Midcoast Maine cultural landscape, and contributes to the …
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Quirimbas: A society reconfigured by nature
Dominant or western imaginations of ‘nature' have been historically imposed on Southern landscapes, resulting in processes of disruption of socio-ecological relations. By using the Quirimbas National Park in Mozambique as a case study, this thesis seeks to understand how nature has been used as an …
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Constructions of Nature and Environmental Justice in Driftsands nature reserve, South Africa
This thesis provides an analysis of the discourses of nature conservation in South Africa and Driftsands provincial nature reserve from constructionist and environmental justice perspectives. At the outset I examine the theoretical framework on the social construction of nature and that of …
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Cutting up the high country: the social construction of tenure review and ecological sustainability
Tenure review is the name given to the process of dividing New Zealand's South Island high country Crown pastoral leases between primary production and biodiversity conservation held as freehold tenure or full Crown ownership and control respectively. The process, started without a clear statutory …
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The rhetoric of ecological restoration: Ethnography in the Cook County Forest Preserves
This research is an exploration of how people socially construct nature through the work of natural resource management. Using participant observation, interviews, and content analysis, I explored the experiences of staff and volunteers in the Cook County Forest Preserves to understand how they …