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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"human-environment relationships"”.
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Whose Woods These Are: Human-Environment Relationships Among Stakeholders of South Mississippi's Longleaf Pine Ecosystem
… reduced biodiversity. This research looks at the human geography of remnants of the longleaf pine ecosystem in South Mississippi and the nature of contemporary relationships between South Mississippi residents and this ecosystem.</p> <p>In an effort to make sense of the complex relationships …
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A Melting Fossil: Constituting Planetary Time In The Cryosphere, 1815-1980
… has profoundly shaped social understandings of environmental change. By tracing how scientific assertions about temporality have materialized, and how this materialization determines (and limits) cultural notions of and political actions on the past and future of the planet, A Melting Fossil …
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The Lure of Origins : An Inquiry into Human-Environmental Relations, Focused on the ”Neolithization” of Sweden
… and so-called activity theory) on the nature of human/environmental relations, focusing on three kinds of human-environment relationships: human organisms and biological environments, human persons and artifacts, and human beings and other beings in the context of symbolism. The dissertation is …
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The Queer Ecology of Clouds in Nineteenth-Century British Poetics
… formations and as material metaphors for human-environment interactions. These writers frequently invoke clouds to disrupt or “queer” depictions of human-environment relationships built on human domination of environmental beings. Clouds, in poetic writing, help writers (and readers) …
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Unruly landscapes: politics of biodiversity, energy and livelihoods in India
… locally in various forms that re-arrange human-environment relationships. Such ‘green geographies’ are inevitably rooted in territoriality and are operationalized through controlling access to natural resources. The re-working of the spatial arrangements demarcating control over access to …
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Unruly Landscapes: The Making Of 1St Millennium Bce Polities On Cyprus
… 1100-700 BCE). The work argues that shifting environmental contexts and social practices co-constituted a re-investment in this region, the Vasilikos and Maroni Valleys of south-central Cyprus, after a period of dislocation at the end of the Bronze Age. This re-investment involved the creation …
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Rediscovering the World: Gridded Cartograms of Human and Physical Space
… thesis. In a world increasingly influenced by human action and interaction, we still rely heavily on mapping techniques that were invented to discover unknown places and explore our physical environment. Although the traditional concept of a map is currently being revived in digital …
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"No to the bear" : contested power and truths behind the reintroduction of brown bears in the Pyrenees.
… global climate and biodiversity, including human survival, are seriously threatened. Fuelled by culturally constructed anthropocentric ‘needs’, the unrelenting march of neoliberal capitalism dramatically manifests dichotomous views and discourses on the environment and sustainable …
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A Collective Sense of Place and the Image of the City @ Urban Public Spaces: Analysis on People's Perception of User-Generated Image Content and Hashtags on Instagram
… as an invaluable source of information on human-environment relationships including people's timely perception, emotion, preference, and sense of place in public space. This study employs quantitative content analysis to identify collective perceptions of urban public spaces and their …
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Unpacking Geography Teachers' Pedagogical Reasoning and Action While Teaching Sustainable Development in AP Human Geography
Sustainable development (SD) encompasses environmental, social, and economic wellbeing for current and future generations. Despite geography's long tradition of studying human-environment relationships, geography educators have criticized the geographical community for being slow to take a leading …
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Decolonial Epistemologies for Energy Planning in Brazil
… normalized as the ethical intersubjective and human–environment relationships. Critically analysing the ethical system enables understanding the epistemologies for energy planning in Brazil as the formal moment of the ethics of exhaustion, which can only be challenged in an intersectional …
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Environmental Stewardship and the Virtuous Cycle: Pathways to Sustainability in a Coastal Context
… The need for sustainability through effective environmental stewardship is urgent, yet current concepts and frameworks are insufficient to achieve the sustainability agenda. Novel social-ecological research is required to better understand human-environment relationships, to balance the …
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Permaculture as farming practice and international grassroots network: a multidisciplinary study
… transition as well as broader socio-environmental transformation. Permaculture is one such movement, with a provocative perspective on agriculture and human-environment relationships more broadly. Despite its relatively broad international distribution and high public profile, …