Nature's Perspectives

Nature's Perspectives
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : 0791404919
ISBN-13 : 9780791404911
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature's Perspectives by : Armen Marsoobian

Civilizing Nature

Civilizing Nature
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9780857455277
ISBN-13 : 0857455273
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Civilizing Nature by : Bernhard Gissibl

National parks are one of the most important and successful institutions in global environmentalism. Since their first designation in the United States in the 1860s and 1870s they have become a global phenomenon. The development of these ecological and political systems cannot be understood as a simple reaction to mounting environmental problems, nor can it be explained by the spread of environmental sensibilities. Shifting the focus from the usual emphasis on national parks in the United States, this volume adopts an historical and transnational perspective on the global geography of protected areas and its changes over time. It focuses especially on the actors, networks, mechanisms, arenas, and institutions responsible for the global spread of the national park and the associated utilization and mobilization of asymmetrical relationships of power and knowledge, contributing to scholarly discussions of globalization and the emergence of global environmental institutions and governance.

Landscape Perspectives

Landscape Perspectives
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 446
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ISBN-10 : 9789402411836
ISBN-13 : 9402411836
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Landscape Perspectives by : Marc Antrop

Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured whole. The landscape is tangible out there and simultaneously a mental reality. Several perspectives are obvious because of language, culture and background. Many disciplines developed to study the landscape focussing on specific interest groups and applications. Gradually the holistic way of seeing became lost. This book explores the different perspectives on the landscape in relation to its holistic nature. We start from its multiple linguistic meanings and a comprehensive overview of the development of landscape research from its geographical origins to the wide variety of today’s specialised disciplines and interest groups. Understanding the different perspectives on the landscapes and bringing them together is essential in transdisciplinary approaches where the landscape is the integrating concept.

Nature, Space and the Sacred

Nature, Space and the Sacred
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 501
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ISBN-10 : 9781351915670
ISBN-13 : 1351915673
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature, Space and the Sacred by : S. Bergmann

Nature, Space and the Sacred offers the first investigative mapping of a new and highly significant agenda: the spatial interactions between religion, nature and culture. In this ground-breaking work, different concepts of religion, theology, space and place and their internal relations are discussed in an impressive range of approaches. Weaving together a diversity of perspectives, this book presents an innovative and truly transdisciplinary environmental science. Its broad range offers a rich exchange of insights, methods and theoretical engagements.

The Nature of Life

The Nature of Life
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 443
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ISBN-10 : 9781108722063
ISBN-13 : 1108722067
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nature of Life by : Mark A. Bedau

Introduces a broad range of scientific and philosophical issues about life through the original historical and contemporary sources.

Nature's Bounty

Nature's Bounty
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Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0765601877
ISBN-13 : 9780765601872
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature's Bounty by : Anthony N. Penna

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- 1 Forests -- 2 Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat -- 3 Water and Drinking Water Quality -- 4 Air Quality and Air Pollution -- Notes -- Index

Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management

Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781317089551
ISBN-13 : 1317089553
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Nature, Temporality and Environmental Management by : Lesley Head

How are different concepts of nature and time embedded into human practices of landscape and environmental management? And how can temporalities that entwine past, present and future help us deal with challenges on the ground? In a time of uncertainty and climate change, how much can we hold onto ideals of nature rooted in a pristine and stable past? The Scandinavian and Australian perspectives in this book throw fresh light on these questions and explore new possibilities and challenges in uncertain and changing landscapes of the future. This book presents examples from farmers, gardens and Indigenous communities, among others, and shows that many people and communities are already actively engaging with environmental change and uncertainty. The book is structured around four themes; environmental futures, mobile natures, indigenous and colonial legacies, heritage and management. Part I includes important contributions towards contemporary environmental management debates, yet the chapters in this section also show how the legacy of older landscapes forms part of the active production of future ones. Part II examines the challenges of living with mobile natures, as it is acknowledged that environments, natures and people do not stand still. An important dimension of the heritage and contemporary politics of Australia, Sweden and Norway is the presence of indigenous peoples. As is clear in part III, the legacies of the colonial past both haunt and energise contemporary land management decisions. Finally, part IV demonstrates how the history and heritage of landscapes, including human activities in those landscapes, are entwined with contemporary environmental management. The rich empirical content of the chapters exposes the diversity of meanings, practices, and ways of being in nature that can be derived from cultural environmental research in different disciplines. The everyday engagements between people, nature and temporalities provide important creative resources with which to meet future challenges.

A Neurocomputational Perspective

A Neurocomputational Perspective
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 348
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ISBN-10 : 0262531062
ISBN-13 : 9780262531061
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis A Neurocomputational Perspective by : Paul M. Churchland

"A Bradford book."Includes index. Bibliography: p. [305]-313.

The Divine Nature

The Divine Nature
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 375
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ISBN-10 : 9781000527650
ISBN-13 : 1000527654
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis The Divine Nature by : Simon Kittle

This book is the first systematic treatment of the strengths and limitations of personal and a-personal conceptions of the divine. It features contributions from Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, Indian and naturalistic backgrounds in addition to those working within a decidedly Christian framework. This book discusses whether the concept of God in classical theism is coherent at all and whether the traditional understanding of some of the divine attributes need to be modified. The contributors explore what the proposed spiritual and practical merits and demerits of personal and a-personal conceptions of God might be. Additionally, their diverse perspectives reflect a broader trend within the analytic philosophy of religion to incorporate various non-Western religious traditions. Tackling these issues carefully is needed to do justice to the strengths and limitations of personal and a-personal accounts to the divine. The Divine Nature: Personal and A-Personal Perspectives will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology.

The Nature of Truth, second edition

The Nature of Truth, second edition
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 769
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ISBN-10 : 9780262362092
ISBN-13 : 0262362090
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis The Nature of Truth, second edition by : Michael P. Lynch

The definitive and essential collection of classic and new essays on analytic theories of truth, revised and updated, with seventeen new chapters. The question "What is truth?" is so philosophical that it can seem rhetorical. Yet truth matters, especially in a "post-truth" society in which lies are tolerated and facts are ignored. If we want to understand why truth matters, we first need to understand what it is. The Nature of Truth offers the definitive collection of classic and contemporary essays on analytic theories of truth. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated, incorporating both historically central readings on truth's nature as well as up-to-the-moment contemporary essays. Seventeen new chapters reflect the current trajectory of research on truth.