Nature Studies
Author | : George Francis Scott Elliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Francis Scott Elliot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Botany |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mara Jill Goldman |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816539677 |
The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.
Author | : Henry Brougham Guppy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Fruit |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Florence Williams |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2017-02-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0393242722 |
"Highly informative and remarkably entertaining." —Elle From forest trails in Korea, to islands in Finland, to eucalyptus groves in California, Florence Williams investigates the science behind nature’s positive effects on the brain. Delving into brand-new research, she uncovers the powers of the natural world to improve health, promote reflection and innovation, and strengthen our relationships. As our modern lives shift dramatically indoors, these ideas—and the answers they yield—are more urgent than ever.
Author | : Jana Lemke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Human beings |
ISBN | : 9789088905582 |
This work presents a reflexive mixed methods study of young adults' experiences of solo time in the wilderness and the impact on these individuals' attitudes and values in the face of global change.
Author | : Richard Louv |
Publisher | : Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2008-04-22 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 156512586X |
“The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.” —Richard Louv, from the new edition In his landmark work Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv brought together cutting-edge studies that pointed to direct exposure to nature as essential for a child’s healthy physical and emotional development. Now this new edition updates the growing body of evidence linking the lack of nature in children’s lives and the rise in obesity, attention disorders, and depression. Louv’s message has galvanized an international back-to-nature campaign to “Leave No Child Inside.” His book will change the way you think about our future and the future of our children. “[The] national movement to ‘leave no child inside’ . . . has been the focus of Capitol Hill hearings, state legislative action, grass-roots projects, a U.S. Forest Service initiative to get more children into the woods and a national effort to promote a ‘green hour’ in each day. . . . The increased activism has been partly inspired by a best-selling book, Last Child in the Woods, and its author, Richard Louv.” —The Washington Post “Last Child in the Woods, which describes a generation so plugged into electronic diversions that it has lost its connection to the natural world, is helping drive a movement quickly flourishing across the nation.” —The Nation’s Health “This book is an absolute must-read for parents.” —The Boston Globe Now includes A Field Guide with 100 Practical Actions We Can Take Discussion Points for Book Groups, Classrooms, and Communities Additional Notes by the Author New and Updated Research from the U.S. and Abroad
Author | : Catrin Gersdorf |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9042020962 |
Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies is a collection of essays written by European and North American scholars who argue that nature and culture can no longer be thought of in oppositional, mutually exclusive terms. They are united in an effort to push the theoretical limits of ecocriticism towards a more rigorous investigation of nature's critical potential as a concept that challenges modern culture's philosophical assumptions, epistemological convictions, aesthetic principles, and ethical imperatives. This volume offers scholars and students of literature, culture, history, philosophy, and linguistics new insights into the ongoing transformation of ecocriticism into an innovative force in international and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies.
Author | : Geoffrey Norman Ridley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1944 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2010-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004186719 |
The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the 'Book of Nature' was transformed.
Author | : Elie Metchnikoff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
ISBN | : |