Human–nature relations encompass many of the age-old questions about our existence, place, and time. This chapter explores some of these notions and offers insight into the question "why protect nature?", the Gaia theory, and linkages from a historical and economical viewpoint between the ...
Combining historical, social and regulative analysis, this book builds a compelling critique of ‘frontier thinking’ as it continues to form our assumptions about social and environmental organisation – in ways that impact not least the present environmental crisis. This book systematically identifies ...
They develop a typology of how people understand human–nature relations, describing seven worldviews. According to two of the views, devotion and ritualized exchange, nature is an entity with agency on its own. The other five views believe that nature has no agency and each of them is driven...
At the other end of the spectrum, human-nature relations are viewed as a ‘unified macroprocess’ (Rescher, 1996), consistent with pluricentric worldviews that focus on reciprocal, interdependent, intertwined, and embedded relationships between humans and other-than-human beings (Anderson et al.,...
nature — as if we can get along without nature. Indeed, built environments serve as barriers between individuals and the natural environments in which they live. Offices, schools, homes, cars, restaurants, shopping malls, and many other built environments segregate people from nature. This ...
Actor–network theory (ANT) provides a framework for this research, which examines human–nature relations through a focus on the material processes of gardening. Drawing on interviews with suburban gardeners in northern Sydney and the analysis of two popular gardening magazines, the research shows ...
In summary, the lessons learned from this journey into the heart of human-nature relations in the face of a pandemic show that we must find solutions to resolve conflicts while assuring the safety of the ecosystem and of human health. These potential solutions indicate areas of future research ...
In the next section, I situate the paper and its arguments in the relevant debates, further examining the Anthropocene as a proposed planetary era and how the idea of encountering can aid understanding of the ways in which new human-nature relations form and unfold in particular places. Section...
N Nicholson - 《Human Relations》 被引量: 142发表: 1997年 The nature of scientific conceptions: A discursive psychological perspective Over the past three decades, the literature in science education has accumulated a tremendous amount of research on students' conceptions鈥攐ne bibliograph... WM Rot...
nature relationships, as well as a process that allows land managers and policy makers to demonstrate their engagement with a plurality of relations to nature that cannot necessarily be traded off against one another. This study explores a diverse range of human-nature relationships for the Flat...