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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"human/nature relationship"”.
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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship
… Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship Chairperson: Dr. Daniel Spencer In recent years, the field of ecological restoration has gained momentum as an academic discipline, a scientific profession, and as a community-based form of environmental activism and land …
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Wild Collaboration: Ecological Restoration, Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship
… Religion, and the Reformation of the Human/Nature Relationship Chairperson: Dr. Daniel Spencer In recent years, the field of ecological restoration has gained momentum as an academic discipline, a scientific profession, and as a community-based form of environmental activism and land …
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Spiritual wellbeing and the human-nature relationship: An exploration of the spiritual wellbeing experiences of home and community gardeners.
… to physical, mental and social wellbeing. Nature-based activities hold promise for developing spiritual wellbeing, but prior research has focussed primarily on wilderness settings. Such spaces are increasingly rare and for individuals living in urbanised areas it is of equal importance to …
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Aldo Leopold's political thought : particularizing American environmental dialogue.
… by focusing on particular aspects of the human-nature relationship. Leopold articulates a strong case for each of America's four great environmental traditions: Biocentrism, which advocates protecting nature for its own sake; Progressivism, which sees conservation as a means toward …
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Identitiy and Belonging: Urban Nature and adolescent development in the City of Cape Town
… to two concerns: firstly, that the notion of nature and experiential, aesthetic ways of engaging with nature had declined markedly in environmental education research and practice in South Africa. Secondly, I was concerned that relatively few environmental education centres in Cape Town …
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Environmental empowerment: Gender, nature, agency, and violence in 21st-century ecofiction
This analysis investigates the 21st-century relationship between gender, nature, and violence as depicted in contemporary ecofiction. In a warming world, the human-nature relationship requires more investigation than ever before. Using an ecofeminist lens, this analysis examines a variety of texts …
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A new focus for education? Nature connection as a goal for all education: Theoretical, research and practical perspectives
… demand that we find new ways to approach the human-nature relationship. An effective way to enact positive change is through education. Nature connection describes a positive relationship with the natural world: how we engage with it on cognitive, affective and behavioural levels and how much …
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The Biocentric Landscape Architect: Designing the Public Landscape, Benefiting the Natural World
… and devastation, this thesis examines the human – nature relationship, as it relates to landscape architecture, through spiritual, mathematical, geometrical, historical, economical, ecological, philosophical and ethical perspectives. Sustainable design and eco-revelatory design methods are …
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A Posthumanist Study of Health and the Food System: Vegetal Politics in Toronto Urban Gardens in the Anthropocene
… study explores the ontological split between humans and nature, identified by scholars including Val Plumwood and Donna Haraway, and considers human health and the food system in the Anthropocene. I draw on posthumanist theory to investigate what happens to understandings of food systems and …
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The Body of the World: A Queered Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Embodied Sensation, More-than-Human Kinships and Entangled Futures
In order to challenge Western nature connection science's binary understanding of the human-nature relationship which upholds colonial logics and risks perpetuating ongoing coloniality and limits its impact for addressing climate change intersectionally, this present research traced the lived …
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Design with the wild: Accommodating tule elks at point Reyes National Seashore
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-15 without embargo terms
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Encountering the nonhuman: body and ecological thinking in contemporary Chinese literature and vsual culture
… into the intricate bodily interactions between humans and their nonhuman counterparts. Through the lens of the body, this study scrutinizes ecological imaginaries portrayed in Chinese literature, film, and art of the twenty-first century. I contend that comprehending the interconnectedness …
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Enabling more Holistic Consideration of Value in Socio-ecological Relationships:: A Well-being Centred Approach
People who are connected to nature feel happier, enjoy time in natural settings and feel grateful for benefits from nature. They also tend to repay nature’s generosity with proenvironmental behaviours. The widespread human-nature disconnect has created an<br/>operating environment where destructive …
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Systems of Becoming: Mediating Dialogue between Nature and Design
The Human-Nature relationship has historically been a subject of study within numerous disciplines. From Descartes’ concept of the “animal machine” (1913) through Heidegger’s views on the abyss between human and nonhuman (1995), to the more recent studies of the “anthropological machine” by Agamben …
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Co-designing in love: towards the emergence and conservation of human sustainable communities
… to, the constitution and conservation of human sustainable communities in our Western-European culture? The research proposes that the only way to understand the practice of ecological design is by dealing with the broader dynamics of human ecology—or, ultimately with what it means to be a …
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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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The relationship between human beings and nature in an urban context: Tehran and the natural structures of seven river-valleys: a design and planning case study
This research investigates the relationship between human beings and nature in an urban context through the enhancement and improvement of the existing natural structures of the city. Although, in the past, the city was mostly characterised as a place of ‘non-nature’, nowadays the landscape is …
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The alienation of humans from nature: media and environmental discourse
… constructs how people experience and understand nature, and corporate ownership of media influences the content (Beder, 2004). What does this discouragement look like in the news? Nature is often made the culprit that impinges on people identified as consumers. Added environmental responsibility …