Bridging Cultural Concepts Of Nature

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson,Boyd Cothran,Saara Kekki
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789523690592

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Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature by Rani-Henrik Andersson,Boyd Cothran,Saara Kekki Pdf

National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a result, for generations of Indigenous peoples, these protected spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places. Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature brings together anthropologists and archaeologists, historians, linguists, policy experts, and communications scholars to discuss differing views and presents a compelling case for the possibility of more productive discussions on the environment, sustainability, and nature protection. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, the volume challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate. This original and timely edited collection offers a global perspective on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their governmental and NGO counterparts in the co-management of the planet’s vital and precious preserved spaces of nature.

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson,Boyd Cothran,Saara Kekki
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9523690612

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Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature by Rani-Henrik Andersson,Boyd Cothran,Saara Kekki Pdf

National parks and other preserved spaces of nature have become iconic symbols of nature protection around the world. However, the worldviews of Indigenous peoples have been marginalized in discourses of nature preservation and conservation. As a result, for generations of Indigenous peoples, these protected spaces of nature have meant dispossession, treaty violations of hunting and fishing rights, and the loss of sacred places.;Bridging Cultural Concepts of Nature brings together anthropologists and archaeologists, historians, linguists, policy experts, and communications scholars to discuss differing views and presents a compelling case for the possibility of more productive discussions on the environment, sustainability, and nature protection. Drawing on case studies from Scandinavia to Latin America and from North America to New Zealand, the volume challenges the old paradigm where Indigenous peoples are not included in the conservation and protection of natural areas and instead calls for the incorporation of Indigenous voices into this debate.;This original and timely edited collection offers a global perspective on the social, cultural, economic, and environmental challenges facing Indigenous peoples and their governmental and NGO counterparts in the co-management of the planet's vital and precious preserved spaces of nature.

Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401701495

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Nature Across Cultures by Helaine Selin Pdf

Nature Across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures consists of about 25 essays dealing with the environmental knowledge and beliefs of cultures outside of the United States and Europe. In addition to articles surveying Islamic, Chinese, Native American, Aboriginal Australian, Indian, Thai, and Andean views of nature and the environment, among others, the book includes essays on Environmentalism and Images of the Other, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Worldviews and Ecology, Rethinking the Western/non-Western Divide, and Landscape, Nature, and Culture. The essays address the connections between nature and culture and relate the environmental practices to the cultures which produced them. Each essay contains an extensive bibliography. Because the geographic range is global, the book fills a gap in both environmental history and in cultural studies. It should find a place on the bookshelves of advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and scholars, as well as in libraries serving those groups.

Author : Walter World Resources Institute,Walter Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597268400

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Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems by Walter World Resources Institute,Walter Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Pdf

Bridging the gap between local knowledge and western science is essential to understanding the world's ecosystems and the ways in which humans interact with and shape those ecosystems. This book brings together a group of world-class scientists in an unprecedented effort to build a formal framework for linking local and indigenous knowledge with the global scientific enterprise. Contributors explore the challenges, costs, and benefits of bridging scales and knowledge systems in assessment processes and in resource management. Case studies look at a variety of efforts to bridge scales, providing important lessons concerning what has worked, what has not, and the costs and benefits associated with those efforts. Drawing on the groundbreaking work of the Millennium Eco-system Assessment, Bridging Scales and Knowledge Systems will be indispensable for future efforts to conduct ecosystem assessments around the world.

Author : Sarah Pilgrim,Jules N. Pretty
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849776455

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Nature and Culture by Sarah Pilgrim,Jules N. Pretty Pdf

There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common disciplinary divide between the natural and social sciences and our apparent need to manage and control nature. This book goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and cultural diversity. The international team of authors explore the common drivers of loss, and argue that policy responses should target both forms of diversity in a novel integrative approach to conservation, thus reducing the gap between science, policy and practice. While conserving nature alongside human cultures presents unique challenges, this book forcefully shows that any hope for saving biological diversity is predicated on a concomitant effort to appreciate and protect cultural diversity.

Author : A. Buttimer,L. Wallin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401723923

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Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective by A. Buttimer,L. Wallin Pdf

Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise nature appear in the context of global environmental change. Understanding across cultural lines has never been more important. This book shows how individual cultures see their own histories as offering protection for nature, while often viewing others as lacking such ethical restraints. Through such writing a discourse of understanding and common action becomes possible. The authors come from the places they discuss, and offer passionate as well as scholarly visions of nature within their cultural homes. Audience: This volume is of interest to academics and professionals working in the fields of cultural geography, environmental history, environmental studies, history of environmental ideas, environmental education, landscape and literature, nature and culture. It can be used for courses in the above-mentioned areas and seminars in comparative literature. It can also be used as a complimentary text to provide cultural context to literary readings, and for seminars on cultural aspects of the environment.

Author : Christina Gish Hill,Matthew J. Hill,Brooke Neely
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806194363

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National Parks, Native Sovereignty by Christina Gish Hill,Matthew J. Hill,Brooke Neely Pdf

The history of national parks in the United States mirrors the fraught relations between the Department of the Interior and the nation’s Indigenous peoples. But amidst the challenges are examples of success. National Parks, Native Sovereignty proposes a reorientation of relationships between tribal nations and national parks, placing Indigenous peoples as co-stewards through strategic collaboration. More than simple consultation, strategic collaboration, as the authors define it, involves the complex process by which participants come together to find ways to engage with one another across sometimes-conflicting interests. In case studies and interviews focusing on a wide range of National Park Service sites, the authors and editors of this volume—scholars as well as National Park Service staff and tribal historic preservation officers—explore pathways for collaboration that uphold tribal sovereignty. These efforts serve to better educate the general public about Native peoples; consider new ways of understanding and interpreting the peoples (Native and non-Native) connected to national park lands; and recognize alternative ways of knowing and using park lands based on Native peoples’ expertise. National Parks, Native Sovereignty emphasizes emotional commitment, mutual respect, and patience, rather than focusing on “land-back” solutions, in the cocreation of a socially sensible public lands policy. Ultimately it succeeds in promoting the theme of strategic collaboration, highlighting how Indigenous peoples assert agency and sovereignty in reconnecting with significant landscapes, and how non-Native scholars and park staff can incrementally assist Native partners in this process.

Author : C. Parker Krieg,Reetta Toivanen
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789523690516

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Situating Sustainability by C. Parker Krieg,Reetta Toivanen Pdf

Situating Sustainability reframes our understanding of sustainability through an emerging international terrain of concepts and case studies. These approaches include material practices, such as extraction and disaster recovery, and extend into the domains of human rights and education. This volume addresses the need in sustainability science to recognize the deep and diverse cultural histories that define environmental politics. It brings together scholars from cultural studies, anthropology, literature, law, behavioral science, urban studies, design, and development to argue that it is no longer possible to talk about sustainability in general without thinking through the contexts of research and action. These contributors are joined by artists whose public-facing work provides a mobile platform to conduct research at the edges of performance, knowledge production, and socio-ecological infrastructures. Situating Sustainability calls for a truly transdisciplinary research that is guided by the humanities and social sciences in collaboration with local actors informed by histories of place. Designed for students, scholars, and interested readers, the volume introduces the conceptual practices that inform the leading edge of engaged research in sustainability.

Author : Robert Acquinas McNally
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496239198

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Cast Out of Eden by Robert Acquinas McNally Pdf

Author : Glauco Sanga,Gherardo Ortalli
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1571818235

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Nature Knowledge by Glauco Sanga,Gherardo Ortalli Pdf

Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the ways nature can be protected and conserved. Some of the most prominent scholars have come together in this volume to reflect on what has been achieved so far, to compare the work carried out in the past, to discuss the problems that have emerged from different research projects, and to map out the way forward.

Author : Rani-Henrik Andersson,Janne Lahti
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789523690806

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Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America by Rani-Henrik Andersson,Janne Lahti Pdf

Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America reinterprets Finnish experiences in North America by connecting them to the transnational processes of settler colonial conquest, far-settlement, elimination of natives, and capture of terrestrial spaces. Rather than merely exploring whether the idea of Finns as a different kind of immigrant is a myth, this book challenges it in many ways. It offers an analysis of the ways in which this myth manifests itself, why it has been upheld to this day, and most importantly how it contributes to settler colonialism in North America and beyond. The authors in this volume apply multidisciplinary perspectives in revealing the various levels of Finnish involvement in settler colonialism. In their chapters, authors seek to understand the experiences and representations of Finns in North American spatial projects, in territorial expansion and integration, and visions of power. They do so by analyzing how Finns reinvented their identities and acted as settlers, participated in the production of settler colonial narratives, as well as benefitted and took advantage of settler colonial structures. Finnish Settler Colonialism in North America aims to challenge traditional histories of Finnish migration, in which Finns have typically been viewed almost in isolation from the broader American context, not to mention colonialism. The book examines the diversity of roles, experiences, and narrations of and by Finns in the histories of North America by employing the settler colonial analytical framework.

Author : Dorothée Cambou,Øyvind Ravna
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781003810803

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The Significance of Sámi Rights by Dorothée Cambou,Øyvind Ravna Pdf

This book examines the significance of the rights of the Sámi people and analyses the issues raised by the recognition and implementation of these rights in the Nordic countries. Written together by Sámi and non-Sámi experts, the book adopts a human rights approach to examine the adequacy of law and policies that seek to protect the culture and livelihood of Sámi communities in their traditional lands and territories. The book discusses contemporary legal and jurisprudential developments in the field of Sámi rights. It examines the processes and challenges in the recognition and implementation of these rights, particularly in relation to the governance of their traditional land and resources. The book will be of particular interest to legal scholars, political scientists, experts in the field of Indigenous peoples’ rights, governmental authorities, and members of Indigenous communities.

Author : Michael Markussen,Ralph Buse,Heiko Garrelts,María Manez Costa,Susanne Menzel,Rainer Marggraf
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540271383

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Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity by Michael Markussen,Ralph Buse,Heiko Garrelts,María Manez Costa,Susanne Menzel,Rainer Marggraf Pdf

The goal of this transdisciplinary book is to identify the problems and challenges facing implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) - from the global, regional and local points of view. The valuation and conservation of biodiversity are critical first steps necessary for the adequate protection of the environment. The authors give insights into the the influences the CBD exerts, and current trends in the field.

Author : Fikret Berkes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental sciences
ISBN : 1560326948

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Sacred Ecology by Fikret Berkes Pdf

Dr Berkes approaches traditional ecological knowledge as a knowledge-practice-belief complex. This complex considers four interrelated levels: local knowledge (species specific); resource management systems (integrating local knowledge with practice); social institutions (rules and codes of behavior); and world view (religion, ethics, and broadly defined belief systems). Divided into three parts that deal with concepts, practice, and issues, respectively, the book first discusses the emergence of the field, its intellectual roots and global significance. Substantive material is then included on how traditional ecological and management systems actually work. At the same time it explores a diversity of relationships that different groups have developed with their environment, using extensive case studies from research conducted with the Cree Indians of James Bay, in the eastern subarctic of North America. The final section examines traditional knowledge as a challenge to the positivist-reductionist paradigm in Western science, and concludes with a discussion of the potential of traditional ecological knowledge to inject a measure of ethics into the science of ecology and resource management.

Author : Deb Rotman
Publisher : Painted Klompen Publishing
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798840695258

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Grandpa the Cowboy: A Young Man's Journey through the American West by Deb Rotman Pdf

In 1904, Eugene J. TenBrink, a second-generation immigrant from the Dutch enclave of West Michigan, traveled to the Great Plains to see the "American West" for himself. He found work with a bonanza farm in Mayville, North Dakota; a cattle ranch in Miles City, Montana; and a sheepherding outfit outside of Sheridan, Wyoming. Although seemingly mundane and unremarkable, Eugene *lived* the tremendous social, economic, and technological changes that were occurring throughout the United States in the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th century. Farm laborer, ranch hand, sheep foreman, and cowpuncher were roles Eugene filled during his time out West (1904-1910) and through which his life gives us insights into a country undergoing profound transformation.