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Brastianos, Harry Charilaos. "Bioactive natural products from nature." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/3960.

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Bioassay guided fractionation of a crude extract of the marine sponge Neopetrosia exigua resulted in the first reported isolation of exiguamines A and B. These pyrroloquinone alkaloids have an unprecedented hexacyclic skeleton that has not been previously encountered in natural products. Biological studies have identified exiguamine A as a potent in vitro inhibitor of the enzyme indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO). IDO is an enzyme expressed by tumor cells to evade the immune system. Inhibitors against this enzyme may allow the immune system to attack cancer cells, making this enzyme a potential drug target for anti-cancer agents. Investigation of the crude extract of a Bacillus sp. collected in Dominica led to the isolation of the known diketopiperazine cyclo(S-Val-S-Phe) (3.9). In vitro biological studies revealed that cyclo(S-Val-S-Phe) is able to promote neurite outgrowth, even in the presence of physiological inhibitors. In vivo studies have shown that cyclo(S-VaI-S-Phe) is able promote sprouting in serotonergic and adrenergic axons. Synthesis of the other three diastereomers led to the discovery that cyclo(R-Val-R-Phe) is also an in vitro activator of axonal outgrowth. Inhibitors of the G2 checkpoint are able to increase the cytotoxicity of DNA damaging chemotherapeutics. Bioassay guided fractionation of an extract of the South American plant Duguetia odorata led to the isolation of the G2 checkpoint abrogator, oliveroline. This investigation also led to the isolation of the previously unreported alkaloid N-methylguatterine, and the known alkaloids dehydrodiscretine and pseudopalmatine. Chemical investigation of the marine sponge Myrmekioderma granulatum led to the isolation of the new compounds abolenone and myrmekioside C, as well as the known compounds curcudiol, curcuphenol, abolene and sesquiterpenoid. Biological studies of these compounds revealed that curcudiol is a ligand of the sex hormone-binding globulin. This protein is involved in transporting and regulating the concentration of steroids such as testosterone and estradiol. Many pathological conditions have a lower plasma concentration of these steroids. Ligands to SHBG can release steroids into the blood, so this protein is a potential drug target to treat conditions where a hormone insufficiency is present.
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Wyndham, Diana Hardwick. "Striving for National Fitness: Eugenics in Australia 1910s to 1930s." University of Sydney, History, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/402.

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Eugenics movements developed early this century in more than 20 countries, including Australia. However, for many years the vast literature on eugenics focused almost exclusively on the history of eugenics in Britain and America. While some aspects of eugenics in Australia are now being documented, the history of this movement largely remained to be written. Australians experienced both fears and hopes at the time of Federation in 1901. Some feared that the white population was declining and degenerating but they also hoped to create a new utopian society which would outstrip the achievements, and avoid the poverty and industrial unrest, of Britain and America. Some responded to these mixed emotions by combining notions of efficiency and progress with eugenic ideas about maximising the growth of a white population and filling the "empty spaces". It was hoped that by taking these actions Australia would avoid "racial suicide" or Asian invasion and would improve national fitness, thus avoiding "racial decay" and starting to create a "paradise of physical perfection". This thesis considers the impact of eugenics in Australia by examining three related propositions: 1. that from the 1910s to the 1930s, eugenic ideas in Australia were readily accepted because of concerns about declining birth rate; 2. that, while mainly derivative, Australian eugenics had several distinctive Australian qualities; 3. that eugenics has a legacy in many disciplines, particularly family planning and public health. This examination of Australian eugenics is primarily from the perspective of the people, publications and organisations which contributed to this movement in the first half of this century. In addition to a consideration of their achievements, reference is also made to the influence which eugenic ideas had in such diverse fields as education, immigration, law, literature, politics, psychology and science.
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Lorenzi, Federico. "Human-Nature centered design. Pensare e progettare sostenibile l'interazione uomo-natura." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2021.

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Il tema della sostenibilità è un argomento tanto vasto quanto complesso. La sua comprensione risulta semplice ai più, tuttavia il termine stesso può assumere definizioni e sfumature differenti, a seconda del campo in cui viene applicato. Il concetto in sé di sostenibilità è applicabile infatti in ogni settore. Dalla politica fino all’economia, così come nell’architettura e nel design, dove ne influenza i processi sia di progettazione che di produzione. Lo sviluppo della relazione di tesi nasce dall’interesse nel fatto che in questo periodo di profondi cambiamenti sociali, ovviamente dovuti soprattutto alla pandemia globale, stiamo assistendo ad un lento processo di transizione ecologica in ognuno di questi settori. Così in questo breve saggio ho cercato di legare gli argomenti studiati e appresi durante il corso di laurea con il mio interesse legato al tema della sostenibilità, cercando di favorire anche in questo caso il processo di transizione ecologica nel campo del Service design. Attraverso un’attenta analisi delle criticità e tante opportunità nascoste nell’approccio user centered (a mio avviso troppo user centered), lo studio dell’influenza del design sulla vita delle persone, il comportamento umano e ovviamente il tema della sostenibilità. Tutte argomentazioni utili alla mia relazione di tesi per lo sviluppo di un nuovo approccio legato alla progettazione dei servizi. Un modello che si rifà alla filosofia esistente e già codificata del Human Centered Design. In cui alle quattro fasi del Double Diamond si aggiungono quattro nuove fasi dove all’interno dei processi di progettazione l’oggetto del pensiero non è più l’uomo, bensì la natura.
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McMullin, Geoffrey Peter. "Nature and natural phenomena in Thomas Mann's fiction." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266500.

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Augustsson, Linda, and Ann-Christine Yngve. "Naturen är hela världen : förskolebarns tankar om natur." Thesis, University West, Department of Social and Behavioural Studies, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hv:diva-1221.

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Syftet med vår uppsats är att ta reda på förskolebarns tankar om vad de uppfattar att natur är och vilka upplevelser de har av naturen. Med upplevelser menar vi såväl deras erfarenheter av som deras känslor för naturen.I vår undersökning har vi utgått från kvalitativa intervjuer, där 18 förskolebarnen intervjuats parvis av två intervjuare. För att kunna nå förskolebarnens tankar var intervju en lämplig metod eftersom man får en djupare bild av barns tänkande kring naturen. Vi lät också förskolebarnen måla en teckning i samband med intervjun för att ytterligare ge de ett sätt att beskriva sina tankar. I bearbetningen av empirin försökte vi tolka innehållet utifrån barnens perspektiv, samt se variationer i barns beskrivningar. Vi är också inspirerade av fenomenografin när vi söker förskolebarnens beskrivningar av naturbegreppet.Resultatet av vår studie visar många olika beskrivningar av vad natur är för förskolebarn, samt att de har varierade kunskaper om naturen. Förskolebarnen har också olika upplevelser av naturen där de upplevde utevistelser utan mål eller syfte som mindre roliga. Erfarenheterna beskriver barnen utifrån sig själva, familjen och förskolan.

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Farber, Jeffrey W. "Natural interactions : a commentary on our relationship with nature." Virtual Press, 2008. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1391229.

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The objective of this creative project is to develop a series of paintings in oil on canvas that focus on the issue of mankind's crumbling relationship with the natural world. The paintings will be produced through a process that begins with an intuitive abstract approach and will later develop layered representational imagery. My technique of painting involves initially choosing and mixing colors without regard to the finished painting, allowing the subconscious to determine the direction that the painting will take. Upon completion of the under painting, I begin creating stencils and layering imagery that provoke thought concerning nature and our place in it. This collection of paintings is representative of the process I have developed through a wide variety of influences, and is a means of communicating my concern for the ever dwindling natural environment and our connection to it.
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Pannabecker, Bradford W. "Natural Leaders| How Interacting with Nature Impacts Leadership Practices." Thesis, Saint Mary's College of California, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13807233.

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Within today's technologically enmeshed world, people are spending more and more time in front of screens (both large and small). This comes at a cost; time spent outdoors is becoming scarce. How does engaging with nature impact our practice of leadership? A Collaborative Inquiry carried out by four individuals with personal leadership practices explored this question. We found that our leadership practices were improved through spending time in nature. A significant impact we identified was that our experiences in nature had an ego-reductive influence, turning our focus outwards and improving our ability to navigate complex situations with greater fluidity. We recommend that leaders looking to alter their perspective adopt a practice of intentional reflective time in nature.

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Johansson, Anneli. "Lärares uppfattningar om utomhuspedagogik i årskurs 3-5 : Viktigt pedagogiskt verktyg eller utelek?" Thesis, Karlstad University, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-1851.

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Det talas just nu mycket om utomhuspedagogik. Med utomhuspedagogik menas då att undervisningen flyttas ut ur klassrummet, för att lära i, och av, omgivningen. Men är utomhuspedagogiken ett viktigt pedagogiskt verktyg i årskurs 3-5 eller är det bara utelek? För att ta reda på det har jag genomfört en enkätundersökning bland lärare som arbetar i årskurs 3-5 över stora delar av Sverige. Av 105 utskickade enkäter har 40 stycken besvarats. Deras svar har jag sedan jämfört med mina skriftliga källor. Resultaten från enkäterna överensstämmer mestadels med de fakta som jag har fått från litteratur och internetkällor. Lärarna uttrycker dock fler problem med utomhuspedagogiken vilket är naturligt eftersom de verkar i verkligheten, medan skriftliga källor i första hand vill inspirera till utomhuspedagogik. Sammanfattningsvis kan svaren utläsas som att man bör använda sig av utomhuspedagogik inom NO-ämnena. Man kan använda sig av utomhuspedagogik i samtliga ämnen, det är bara fantasin och möjligtvis gruppstorleken som sätter gränser. Att säga att utomhuspedagogiken är ett måste, är väl lite att ta i, men rätt använt är utomhuspedagogiken betydligt mer än bara utelek. Utomhuspedagogiken är ett bra komplement till undervisningen i klassrummet som ger möjligheter till att arbeta med skolans alla kursplaner och socialt samspel, samtidigt som eleverna får frisk luft, motion och tränas i att själva söka sin kunskap.

 

Nyckelord: Utomhuspedagogik, undervisning, skola, natur


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Nowadays there is a lot of talk about outdoor education. Outdoor education means to move the education out of the classroom, to let the pupils learn from, and in, their surroundings. My question is if outdoor education is an important methodology when you work with pupils 9-11 years old, or is it only outdoor playtime? To answer that, I have sent questionnaires to teachers who work in year 3-5 over most parts of Sweden. I sent out 105 questionnaires, and got 40 answers. Afterwards I have compared the teachers’ answers with my written sources. The outcome of the questionnaire corresponds in most cases with the facts that I got from literature and internet sources, even if the teachers can see more problems with outdoor education. This seems naturally as they work in the real world, and books mostly want to inspire teachers to work with outdoor education. In summary the result shows that you ought to use outdoor education in science subjects. You can use outdoor education in all subjects, only your imagination and maybe the size of your group will set the limits. You cannot say that you have to use outdoor education, but correctly used the outdoor education is much more than just outdoor playtime. Outdoor education is a good complement to the education within the classroom. It provides opportunities to work with all the curriculums and with social teamwork. In addition the pupils get fresh air, exercise and learn how to search their own knowledge.

 

Keywords: Outdoor education, teaching, school, nature

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White, H. R. B. "Nature and the Natural Man in some Medieval English writers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.371776.

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Demirtaş, Fatma Aslıhan 1970. "Artificial nature : water infrastructure and its experience as natural space." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65716.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2000.
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This work is about water infrastructure and its experience as urban and natural space. It deals with the concepts of nature/geography, technology, and the integral experiential space by analyzing water dams and reservoirs that are more than utilitarian structures. In the process of formulating the concept of ARTIFICIAL NATURE, an expanded definition of 'built activity' to embrace landscape/nature, infrastructure, and technology as well as imaginative and mental space is pursued. The specific sites of investigation range from Thrace to Central and Southeastern Anatolia in Turkey from 1920-2000.
by Fatma Aslıhan Demirtaş.
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Wong, Tak-ming Humphrey. "Dwelling in nature : an ecological reserve Ping Chau /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25955226.

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Gibson, Susannah. "The pursuit of nature : defining natural histories in eighteenth-century Britain." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/244381.

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Many histories of natural history see it as a descriptive science, as a clear forerunner to modern studies of classification, ecology and allied sciences. But this thesis argues that the story of unproblematic progression from eighteenth-century natural history to nineteenth-century and modern natural history is a myth. Eighteenth-century natural history was a distinct blend of practices and theories that no longer exists, though many individual elements of it have survived. The natural history that I discuss was not solely about collecting, displaying, naming and grouping objects. Though these activities played an important part in natural history (and in many histories of natural history) this thesis focuses on some other key elements of natural history that are too often neglected: elements such as experimenting, theorising, hypothesising, seeking causes, and explaining. Usually these activities are linked to natural philosophy rather than natural history, but I show how they were used by naturalists and, by extension, create a new way of understanding how eighteenth-century natural history, natural philosophy and other sciences were related. The first chapter is about the end of eighteenth-century natural history and looks at the role of the Linnean Society of London. It argues that this society tried to homogenise British natural history through the promotion of the Linnean sexual system of plant classification and through the suppression of the kinds of experimental and theoretical work described in this thesis. To understand that experimental and theoretical work, and to see what British natural history really entailed in this period, three central chapters focus on specific case studies. The second chapter shows how English-based naturalists such as John Ellis (1710-1776) approached the problem of distinguishing plants from animals, and especially about how they used chemical experiments to decide whether things such as coral and corallines should be placed in the animal or plant kingdom. The third chapter discusses sensitive plants and the overlaps between natural history and natural philosophy. It draws on case studies of naturalists who investigated things like plant motion and apparent plant sensitivity with different observational and experimental methods, and tried to explain them using various mechanical and vitalist explanations. The fourth chapter focuses on the controversy over whether plants (like animals) can be male or female and shows the theoretical and experimental tools that naturalists used to address this issue. Together, these chapters give a very detailed insight into the everyday practices and theories used by eighteenth-century naturalists and show the variety of activities that made up the field. The next two chapters focus on the identity and interactions of naturalists and show how they created a distinctive science: the fifth chapter is about how someone in England could go about becoming an authority on natural history in the late eighteenth century; and the final chapter looks outwards from Britain and examines how British natural history influenced, and was influenced by, European natural history; it uses correspondence to examine how British naturalists communicated with their overseas counterparts and what each party gained from those exchanges.
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Hall, Julie Maria. "Nature, frequency and natural history of intracranial cavernous malformations in adults." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9532.

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Scottish Intracranial Vascular Malformation Study was the first prospective, population-based study of the major types of intracranial vascular malformations; arteriovenous, cavernous and venous malformations including dural fistulae and carotid-cavernous fistulae. It was based in Scotland and designed in 1998 by my supervisor Professor Charles Warlow and the first Research Fellow Dr Rustam Al-Shahi supported by the SIVMS steering committee (www.saivms.scot.nhs.uk). Recruitment and follow-up began in January 1999. Recruitment and follow-up of all vascular malformation types was done by Dr Al-Shahi until March 2002 and this role then transferred to me in April 2002 until I left in August 2004. The main duties of the Research Fellow were to collect and review all the clinical material of cases notified to SIVMS and arbitrate with the relevant expertise where there was doubt whether the case met the criteria for inclusion in SIVMS. Apart from my clinical responsibilities in recruitment and follow-up, the post also involved supervision of the part-time study administrator and also weekly meetings with the study programmer. I was also responsible for convening and presenting updates of the study progress weekly to my supervisor Professor Charles Warlow, biannually to the Study steering committee meetings, and annually to my funding body, the Stroke Association. This Research Fellowship also allowed me to gain an appreciation of the efforts needed to sustain collaborators’ interest in a long running study and I made presentations to improve the profile of the study on the national and international stage. For my duration as the SIVMS Research Fellow, I recruited and followed-up all types of newly diagnosed intracranial vascular malformations (IVMs). This thesis, however, is based solely on the incident intracranial cavernous malformations (ICMs) recruited to the study by both Dr Al-Shahi and myself between January 1999 and December 2003. The follow-up data in this thesis were that available to me on August 31st 2004. The data cleaning and the analysis for this thesis has been performed by me alone under the supervision of Professor Warlow. Although the core study design was well-established and tested prior to my involvement with SIVMS, I did divise new studies such as the Sensitivity and Specificity of MRI in the diagnosis of intracranial CMs. This cavernoma imaging study was a separate study designed, executed and analysed by myself, a medical student Sue Liong, the Cavernoma Imaging Study Group [appendix 1] with guidance from Professor Warlow, Dr Al-Shahi, Dr Andrew Farrall (consultant neuroradiologist) and Dr Steff Lewis (Medical Statistician). Computing support was provided by Aidan Hutchison (SIVMS programmer).
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Husser, Erica Kathryn. "Nature as Nurture: Rural Older Women's Perspectives on The Natural Environment." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39337.

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The natural environment is a dynamic context for human development, but current lifestyles and activities are threatening the quality and supply of natural resources, and changing the conditions of the atmosphere. Older adults in the United States have been called upon to contribute their energy to volunteer efforts aimed at improving environmental conditions, but little is known about how or if older adults would be willing to take part. Informed by place attachment and attention restoration theory, and guided by the life course framework of human development, the purpose of this qualitative investigation was to deepen understanding about how a nature trajectory is established and the factors that influence the relationship between humans and nature over time. Interviews were conducted with 34 older rural women who ranged in aged from 71 to 91 years old (mean age 79). Seventeen of the women were living alone and nine lived below the poverty threshold. Using grounded theory coding and analysis techniques, two major findings emerged from the data: the women valued nature for spiritual and psychological reasons, and nature was suffering as a result of a wasteful and destructive economic paradigm. Half of the women's nature trajectories changed over time; trajectories remained positive and stable for the others. As God's creation, the natural environment informed their sense of self and bolstered their psychological well-being. They cared about environmental problems, but were unaware of what they could do to help.
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Cheung, Hosum. "Toward a schizo-natural writing : exploring the production of nature in Dung Kai-Cheung's Natural histories trilogy." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2019. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/705.

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How should nature be written? Writing has long been a way for people to understand nature. Still, we have come to an age that we need to reconceptualize our relation with nature. Nature can no longer be regarded as a passive stage upon which human beings act. How should we understand nature so that nature is made inanimate? I propose that the solution, known as “Schizo-Natural Writing,” can be found in Dung Kai-cheung’s Natural Histories Trilogy. Hong Kong is commonly seen as a city. Correspondingly, when it comes to Hong Kong literature, the term appears frequently will be “city writing”. It is not surprising, given that Hong Kong has always been recognised as a highly-developed city, one of the most densely populated cities in the world. Famous literary works in Hong Kong like Xi Xi’s My City (西西，我城), A Dictionary of Two Cities co-written by Hon Lai Chu and Dorothy Tse Hiu Hong (韓麗珠、謝曉虹，雙城辭典), Wong Bik Wan’s The City of Lost (黃碧雲，失城), just to name some. This phenomenon is closely related to the historical background of Hong Kong. According to Chan (2009), the connection between Hong Kong literature and its cityscape can be dated back to 1950s. Though it does not mean that there are no non-urban writings, those were not in the mainstream. However, in 2000s one of the most influential local writers, Dung Kai Cheung (1967 -), has begun his Natural Histories Trilogy. He is the director in The House of Hong Kong Literature, a folk organisation of local literature. His publication includes, Androgyny: Evolution of a Non-existent Species (1996), a story about a female scientist who went into the wild and sought a nonexistent species, named as androgyny and Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City (1997), an imaginary archaeology in the future Hong Kong, which has been translated into English. During 2005 to 2010, he published the Natural Histories Trilogy, including firstly, the History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera (2018, which titled in Chinese, 天工開物．栩栩如真), secondly, the Histories of Time: The Light of Nga Chi (2007, 時間繁史．啞瓷之光) and thirdly, on the Origin of Species: The Rebirth of Bui Bui - The Age of Apprenticeship (2010, 物種源始．貝貝重生 之 學習年代). In the trilogy, Dung Kai-cheung, echoing Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of “nature=industry”, highlighted the productivity of nature, or the naturing of nature. As such, he no longer writes nature. He writes schizo-naturally. I further adopted the term “ecology”, which on the one hand pointed out the close relation between the item produced during the schizo-natural writing; on the other hand, echoed Guattari’s the Three Ecology. In this thesis, there are four parts investigating four types of ecology: mental ecology, social ecology, environmental ecology and spatiotemporal ecology. Through examining the trilogy, love, being standing outside oneself, is advocated to be the way out of the fragmented world. Keywords: Dung Kai-cheung, the Natural Histories Trilogy, nature writing, Gilles Deleuze, Ecology
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Zettergren, John. "En natur för alla : En kvalitativ undersökning om tillgänglighet i naturen." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-433605.

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Behovet av att vistas i naturen har under senare år blivit mer populär och stärkts av forskning om att folkhälsan påverkas positivt av ett rikt friluftsliv. För personer med funktionsnedsättning är inte naturen en självklar plats. Den är sällan fri från krav och fysiska hinder som gör en naturupplevelse mindre lämplig. Genom en hårdför politik beträffande inkluderande av personer med funktionsnedsättning i samhällets alla miljöer så bör inte tillgängligheten i naturen förbises. Det är därför relevant att genom intervjuer höra personers samtida erfarenheter och uppfattningar om naturens tillgänglighet och vilka faktorer som gör en plats i naturen en trygg miljö att besöka. För att göra naturen mer tillgänglig har även teorin om universell utformning funderats över som en möjlig lösning. Resultatet visade vissa meningsskiljaktigheter i frågan om hur tillgänglig naturen verkligen är och vad som gör den tillgänglig, men manifesterade ett optimistiskt intresse gällande universell utformning och dess möjligheter att skapa en natur för alla.
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Leard, Jason. "Ethics Naturally: An Environmental Ethic Based on Naturalness." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2004. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4458/.

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In this thesis I attempt to base an environmental ethic on a quality called naturalness. I examine it in terms of quantification, namely, as to whether it can quantified? I then apply the concept to specific areas such as restoration and conservation to create an environmental ethic and to show how such an ethic would be beneficial in general, and especially to policy issues concerning the environment. The thesis consists of three chapters: (1) the definition of nature and natural by way of a historical approach; (2) the place of humans in this scheme; and (3) the place of value and the discussion concerning quantification.
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Erixon, Aalto Hanna. "Projecting Urban Natures : Investigating integrative approaches to urban development and nature conservation." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Kritiska studier i arkitektur, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-217153.

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Projecting Urban Natures is a compilation thesis in critical studies in architecture. It comprises three journal articles and four design proposals in which I have taken an active part. The point of departure for this thesis is the renewed emphasis on social-ecological interaction and resilience that is currently taking place within ecological systems science, and the opportunities that these paradigmatic insights in turn have opened up within urbanism and design. The thesis argues that although they are promising, these emerging integrative frameworks are seldom brought into mainstream planning and urban design practice. Instead, the structuring of “nature” and “city” into a dualistic balance relationship still permeates not only the general planning discourse, but also makes its way into planning documents, notably influencing distinctions between professions. In response, this thesis sets out to rethink and explore more integrated approaches to human/nature relationships, through the utilization of design-based and transdisciplinary research methods. While this core aim of the thesis remains the same throughout the work, the task is approached from different perspectives: through different constellations of collaborative work as well as through parallel case-based explorations that emphasize the relational, anti-essentialist and situated articulation of values of urban natures and how these forces come into play. The work has been propelled through workshop-based, site-specific, and experimental design processes with professionals and researchers from the fields of e.g. systems ecology, natural resource management, political ecology, urban design, architecture, and landscape design, as well as planners, developers, local interest groups, and NGOs. Specifically, projects performed within this thesis include: Nature as an Infrastructural Potential – An Urban Strategy for Järvafältet; Kymlinge UrbanNatur together with NOD, Wingårdhs, MUST and Storylab; Årsta Urban Natures with James Corner Field Operations and Buro Happold; and Albano Resilient Campus — a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Centre, KTH and KIT.

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Hessle, Anna. "Beef cattle on semi-natural grasslands : production of meat and nature conservation /." Skara : Dept. of Animal Environment and Health, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2007. http://epsilon.slu.se/200732.pdf.

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Foster, Claire. "The distribution, causes and nature of natural landslides in Devon and Cornwall." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/468.

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Between 1985 and 1990 a computerised database was assembled that contains information concerning the distribution and nature of 9000 landslides in Great Britain. The South West accounts for 1,700 of the listed slope failures. Problems have arisen because in many areas the database merely serves as an archive of previous studies and is not a true representation of landsliding in an area. The aim of this research was to identify landslide environments correlated with landslide frequency and character and through this develop a landslide susceptibility map. Analyses were undertaken so that distinct inland and coastal landslide environments could be defined. These landslide environments characterised the likely extent and type of landslides that would occur in each land system. In order to compile data over such a large region a land systems approach was taken to characterise areas where the geological and geomorphological conditions were similar. The methods used for primary data collection were aerial photograph interpretation, airborne thematic mapper data, terrain evaluation and limited field mapping for ground truthing purposes. This landslide susceptibility map used probability to assess the relative importance of parameters important to slope stability. The landslide susceptibility map, along with the landslide environments, highlighted areas were landsliding was more prevalent as well as identifying areas where landsliding is less likely to occur. Two landslide environments were identified as being particularly susceptible to landsliding, and this was primarily related to geological conditions. It was found that within environments changes in topography also acted as a strong control on the nature and extent of landsliding. It is anticipated that the method used for assessing landslide susceptibility could have widespread application in all GIS based landslide studies and can be used to develop the potential of the complete UK landslide database, once the rest of the original data have been updated.
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Wang, Laura Li Ching. "Natural Law and the Law of Nature in Early British Beast Literature." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11234.

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In the tumultuous political environment of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Britain, animal literature saw rapid development and innovation. Beast fable and epic, which already had a long tradition in Latin and French, gained new vigor and popularity in English and Scots renditions. Simultaneously, a new strain of political theory appeared in the vernacular. This dissertation makes a tripartite argument about the relationship between these two discourses. First, writers of literature and political theory alike struggled to reconcile an optimistic view of human society, inherent in the prevailing philosophical tradition of natural law, with the widespread corruption they witnessed in ecclesiastical and royal courts. The fruits of this struggle were darkly humorous works of beast epic and fable in the former case, and pragmatic political theory in the latter. Second, because of its literary character, beast literature actually proved more adventurous than political theory in demonstrating how one might use dissimulation to dominate the predatory world of politics, and in showing the moral and linguistic exhaustion that could result from such manipulation of others. Third, as political writers adapted their theories to reflect politics as it was actually practiced, they explicitly turned to beast literature for images and exempla, so that the animal characters of Aesopian fable and Reynardian epic stealthily crept into works of serious political inquiry.
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Davies, Gail. "Networks of nature : stories of natural history film-making from the BBC." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/5188/.

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In May 1953 the first natural history television programme was broadcast from Bristol by naturalist Peter Scott and radio producer Desmond Hawkins. By 1997 the BBC's Natural History Unit has established a global reputation for wildlife films, providing a keystone of the BBC's public service broadcasting charter, playing an important strategic role in television scheduling and occupying a prominent position in a competitive world film market. The BBC's blue-chip natural history programmes regularly bring images of wildlife from all over the globe to British audiences of over 10 million. This thesis traces the changing aesthetics, ethics and economics of natural history film-making at the BBC over this period. It uses archive material, interviews and participant observation to look at how shifting relationships between broadcasting values, scientific and film-making practices are negotiated by individuals within the Unit. Engaging with vocabularies from geography, media studies and science studies, the research contextualises these popular representations of nature within a history of post-war British attitudes to nature and explores the importance of technology, animals and conceptions of the public sphere as additional actors influencing the relationships between nature and culture. This history charts the construction of the actor networks of the Natural History Unit by film-makers and broadcasters as they seek to incorporate and exclude certain practices, technologies and discourses of nature. These networks provide the resources, values and constraints which members of the Unit negotiate to seek representation within the Unit, and present challenges as the Unit seeks to preserve its institutional identity as these networks shift. The thesis tells a series of stories of natural history film-making that reflect one institution's contributions and responses to the contemporary formations of nature, science, the media and modernity.
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Shobrook, Sarah Veronica. "Poststructuralist natures : nature conservation, social redemption and fin de siècle culture." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.248317.

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Kelsch, Paul Joseph. "Cultivating natural history : the construction of nature in four American forest landscapes." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401729.

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Samuelsson, Lars. "The moral status of nature : reasons to care for the natural world." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, Umeå universitet, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1612.

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Walton, Sara, and n/a. "Contesting natures : a discourse analysis of natural resource conflicts." University of Otago. Department of Management, 2008. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20080404.142212.

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This research explores the discursive formations involved in two environmental conflicts during which organisations were not permitted to carry out their proposed extractive activities. The conflicts were based on the West Coast of the South Island in New Zealand. The first involved sustainable native logging and the second was over the siting and extension of a gold mine. Extensive archival and media searches were carried out to generate data on the conflicts. Interviews were also conducted to investigate the community position in more depth. The discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe (2001 [1985]) is drawn upon as a framework to make sense of the conflicts. This framework was particularly useful as it enabled a close and careful examination of the antagonisms and addressed some of the ideological and power concerns with stakeholder analysis. The analysis involved identifying nodal points, subjectivity, subject positions and floating signifiers, which enabled certain hegemonic constructions. The two conflicts were considerably different. The hegemonic constructions were quite similar and the notion of �being green� emerged as an antagonism that was at the heart of the conflicts and a key to understanding why these business organisations were unsuccessful. That is, who or what is given meaning as �being green� negates and de-legitimates other activity that is not deemed to be green. In these conflicts business organisations extracting natural resources and subjects supporting these organisational activities could not be green - when being green was constituted in terms of the clean green discourse operating economically and socially within New Zealand (see Bell, 1996). Consequently, not being green was deemed to be outside of what we see as New Zealanders as being important and thus should not occur in this country. This research has implications for business organisations in New Zealand dealing with greening issues, especially as external stakeholders can have considerable influence on organisational activities. Theoretically it argues for a discursive approach to organisational stakeholder analysis in order to address power and subjectivity and for the organisation and natural environment literature to recognise the possibility of multiple meanings of nature. In particular, this thesis contributes to current organisation studies literature by explicitly focusing on �nature� as a concept. It shows that the meaning attributed to nature is a political process which can have consequences for preventing or enabling significant business organisational activities.
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Vatsvåg, Hjørdis. "Natur i urbane boliger : Boliger der beboerne kan sanse naturen året rundt." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Fakultet for arkitektur og billedkunst, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-24322.

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Freeberg, Andrew Harding. "Spectacular Nature: applying the 'cinema of attactions' to the natural history film genre." Thesis, Montana State University, 2008. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2008/freeberg/FreebergA1208.pdf.

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The natural history film genre has long been reliant on the commoditizing of nature's beauty as visual spectacle. Associating Tom Gunning's "cinema of attractions" to the nature film genre therefore is an appropriate way to dissect the techniques that maintain its popularity. After understanding the basic rhetorical traditions that nature films employ, it is revealed how the same outdated and over-idealized portrayals of nature continue to be recycled as new technology in methods of production and exhibition continually reinvent the nature film experience.
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Скляр, Ірина Дмитрівна, Ирина Дмитриевна Скляр, Iryna Dmytrivna Skliar, Микола Васильович Костель, Николай Васильевич Костель, and Mykola Vasylovych Kostel. "Payment for the natural capital use as an instrument of nature use management." Thesis, Вид-во СумДУ, 2010. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/8356.

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Tatianina, Valeriia. "Blended natures. Integrating city with nature, landscapes and water. Case of Igelbäcken Kulturreservat." Thesis, KTH, Stadsbyggnad, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-297407.

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How we develop our cities not only reflects our priorities and values, but also affect the way we and future generations will experience and learn to communicate with spaces.    To face the fast-changing reality of Anthropocene and find inspiration and strength to face global issues cities have to become not only spaces where we live, work and play, but also places for nature reconnection, ecological education, grounding and inspiration.  Places that could show and tell why it is important to care about our local and global environments, how are they affecting everyday life and how we affect them with our lifestyle.    Igelbäcken kulturreservat gives a great opportunity to explore such topics, as nature and city already have a strong presence in the area. It is a part of the green wedge and has a rich agricultural history. Meanwhile it is also a place of big infrastructural and urban development with 2 big city cores situated closely.   Main aim is to explore how can urban design help in building symbiotic relationships between city and nature and enhance existing landscapes without depleting them, while operating in a very contextually saturated urban environment of Igelbäcken kulturreservat.
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Essenlink, Jan Wieger Peter. "Nature management of coastal salt marshes : interactions between anthropogenic influences and natural dynamics /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39900395h.

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Epp-Carter, Martha A. "Recollection/re-collection a re-positioning of artificial nature in the natural world /." Connect to this title online, 2009. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1263397404/.

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Daigle, Cheryl Perusse. "A Portfolio of Science and Nature Writing." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2002. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/DaigleCP2002.pdf.

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Frick-Spejare, Caroline. "Vad är det för blomma? : En kvalitativ studie om yngre elevers växtkännedom i relation till fenomenet plant blindness." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-78371.

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Denna studie syftar till att bidra med ökade kunskaper om yngre skolelevers kännedom om växter samt växters betydelse i naturen med utgångspunkt i aspekter kopplade till fenomenet plant blindness. Plant blindness innefattar bland annat ett bristande intresse gentemot växter samt en oförmåga att identifiera och benämna dem. I denna kvalitativa intervjustudie av elever och klasslärare i årskurs tre har fokus ålagts elevers kunskaper om vanligt förekommande växtarter i elevernas närmiljö. Eleverna har intervjuats utifrån bildmaterial samt frågor rörande växters betydelse i naturen. Materialet har kodats, kategoriserats och satts i relation till människans sätt att värdera organismer i naturen. Studiens resultat visar i huvudsak att yngre elever har svårigheter att benämna flertalet vanliga växter även om deras artkännedom är mer omfattande än deras kunskaper om artnamn. Elevernas fritid utgör det sammanhang där eleverna främst möter växter medan undervisningssammanhang utvecklar elevernas artkännedom och begreppskunskap. Studien belyser ett omfattande intresse bland barn för olika organismer i naturen men även att en kulturell samhällssyn på växters värde återfinns i yngre elevers resonemang. Lärarens roll är därmed central i elevernas utveckling av artkännedom. En av studiens slutsatser är därmed att utforskande undervisning av växters naturliga kontext är positivt för elevers växtkännedom samt för deras förståelse av naturens ekosystem.
The purpose of this study is to contribute to increased knowledge about young learners' knowledge about plants and the importance of plants in nature, based on aspects linked to the phenomenon of plant blindness. Plant blindness includes a lack of interest in plants as well as an inability to identify and name them. In this qualitative interview study of learners in grade three and their teachers, focus has been placed on learners' knowledge of plant species that are commonly found in the learners' local environment. During the interviews, pictures of common plants were used as well as questions about the importance of plants in nature. The material was coded, categorized and put in relation to man's way of evaluating organisms in nature. The study mainly shows that young learners have difficulty naming common plants, but their species knowledge is more extensive than their ability of naming them. Learners' leisure time is the context where they primarily meet plants, while biology lessons develops learners' species- and conceptual knowledge. The results show that children have a wide interest in various organisms in nature, but also that a cultural societal view on the value of plants is found in young learners' reasoning. The teacher's role is thus central to the learners' development of species knowledge. One conclusion of the study is that teaching about plants in their natural environment is positive for learners' species knowledge and understanding of different ecosystems in nature.
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da, Silva Cruz Alves Isabel Maria. "Aprendre amb la natura. Avaluació d’un programa d’educació ambiental en un espai natural protegit." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/459080.

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En aquesta recerca es presenten els resultats d'un estudi longitudinal que analitza qualitativament l'aplicació d'un programa d'educació ambiental per a primer cicle de l'Ensenyament Secundari Obligatori en un espai natural protegit durant 24 cursos (1988-1989 a 2011-2012). L’objectiu del treball és identificar la contribució d’aquest programa a una cultura de relació amb la natura utilitzant el referent de la taxonomia de valors envers la natura de Kellert (1997). Es descriuen i es fa una anàlisi creuada dels factors condicionants (identificats a partir del model sistèmic de Neill, 2008), els processos d’avaluació i les categories d'interpretació aplicades als objectius i a les tasques del programa, així com a les respostes relatives als aprenentatges de l’alumnat per part d’educadors i professors. Aquests resultats s’aprofundeixen en una escala més específica per als cursos 2003-2004 i 2010-2011 on es triangulen les respostes dels educadors, dels professors, i dels alumnes (respostes en grup, sobre les seves percepcions d’aprenentatge). En el cas del darrer curs, un 71% dels alumnes explicita els seus records sobre què havien fet, après i sentit un any després de la realització del programa (2012, respostes individuals). Els resultats indiquen la importància de processos i mètodes d’avaluació continuada tant a l’escala d’una jornada com de tot un curs per millorar les pràctiques, establir vincles entre educadors i professorat, i per verificar el grau d’assoliment dels objectius. També s’evidencia la rellevància de procediments i materials connectors que facilitin les dinàmiques de treball, l’expressió i la potenciació de valors relacionats amb la natura.
This research presents the results of a long-term​ study. It ​qualitatively analyses the implementation​ of an environmental education program for the first cycle of Compulsory Secondary Education in a protected natural area during 24 courses (1988- 1989 to 2011/12). Its objective has been to identify its contribution to a culture connected with nature, using Kellert's​ taxonomy of values ​​towards nature (1997) as common reference. A cross-sectional analysis of factors identified from the Neill’s system model (2008) is described and analysed. E​valuation processes and interpretation categories are applied to the objectives and tasks of the program as well as the responses of educators and teachers related to student learning. These results are also deepened on a more specific scale, corresponding to the 2003-2004 and 2010-2011 courses, where the responses of educators, teachers, and students are triangulated (group responses, about their perceptions of learning). In the case of the last year, 71% of the students explained their memories about what they had done, learned and felt a year later (2012, individual responses). The results indicate the importance of processes and methods of continuous evaluation on the scale of each day and course to improve practices, establish links between educators and teachers and verify the achievement degree of the objectives. It also demonstrates the relevance of procedures and connecting materials that facilitate work dynamics, the interpretation and empowerment of values ​​related to nature.
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Björse, Gisela. "Near-natural forests in southern Sweden : silvicultural and palaeoecological aspects on nature-based silviculture /." Alnarp : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 2000. http://epsilon.slu.se/avh/2000/91-576-5868-4.pdf.

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Leggett, Andrew S. "Good natured : a discussion of the relationship between human nature and the good life." Thesis, University of Reading, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339974.

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Brockmann, Sophie Bettina. "Surveying nature : the creation and communication of natural-historical knowledge in Enlightenment Central America." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708150.

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Louw, Francois Johannes. "Of nature and people : community-based natural resource management and land restitution at Makuleke." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5244.

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Thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch
Thesis (MA (Sociology and Social Anthropology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is an exploration of how a new development culture has been cultivated at the end of the 20th century in reaction to the ‘crisis of development’ and the need to bring relief to impoverished communities in an environmentally sustainable manner. I uncover the key constraints on and opportunities for sustainable development and Community-Based Natural Resource Management that have emerged in land restitution claims in conservation areas in South Africa. I look at how inherited socio-political pasts poise actors and influence the relationships and interactions between them, how the current nature-tourism industry works to the detriment of some and the benefit of other actors in terms of gaining economic success and ultimately how these two factors influence conservation-based CBNRM projects. I examine three cases, namely: the Aboriginal community in Kakadu National Park, the Khomani San in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and the Makuleke in Kruger National Park. Through this examination I draw specific conclusions: the repercussions of racial segregation policies puts community actors at a disadvantage when engaging with their partners; specific dynamics of the tourism industry threatens the success of CBNRM projects because the expected substantial benefits are not always guaranteed; and the lack of sound local governance impedes sustainable development at community-level.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis is ‘n verkenning van hoe ‘n nuwe ontwikkelingskultuur gekweek is aan die einde van die 20ste eeu deur die ‘krisis van ontwikkeling’ en die noodsaaklikheid om verligting te bring aan verarmde gemeenskappe op ‘n omgewings-volhoubare wyse. Ek lig die beperkings en kerngeleenthede tot volhoubare ontwikkeling en Gemeenskaps-Gebaseerde Natuurlike Hulpbronbestuur uit wat in grondhervormingseise in bewaringsgebiede in Suid-Afrika na vore gekom het. Ek kyk na hoe die historiese sosio-politiese erflating rolspelers posisioneer en verhoudings en interaksies tussen hulle beïnvloed, hoe die huidige natuur-toerisme industrie tot die nadeel van sommige en voordeel van sekere ander rolspelers werk in terme van die verkryging van ekonomiese sukses en uiteindelik hoe hierdie twee faktore bewarings-gebaseerde GBNHB beïnvloed. Ek bestudeer drie gevallestudies, naamlik die Inboorling-gemeenskap in die Kakadu Nasionale Park, die Khomani San in die Kalahari Gemsbok Nasionale Park en die Makuleke in die Nasionale Kruger -Wildtuin. Analise lei my tot spesifieke gevolgtrekkings: die nagevolge van rasse-segregasie-beleid plaas gemeenskapsakteurs in ‘n benadeelde posisie wanneer hulle in interaksie is met hulle vennote; die spesifieke dinamika van die toerisme-industrie bedreig die sukses van GBNHB projekte omdat die verwagte noemenswaardige voordele nie altyd gewaarborg kan word nie; en die gebrek aan effektiewe plaaslike bestuur belemmer volhoubare ontwikkeling op gemeenskapsvlak.
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Ginelli, Ludovic. "Jeux de nature, natures en jeu. Des loisirs aux prises avec l'écologisation des sociétés." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BORD0050/document.

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Aujourd’hui massivement pratiqués, les « sports et loisirs de nature » sont traversés par des tensions majeures à l’œuvre dans nos sociétés. Comment sont-ils remodelés par l’écologisation des sociétés, analysée ici comme un processus à la fois cognitif, normatif et politique ? Cette problématique est traitée à partir d’usages différents par leur histoire, leurs publics et leurs techniques (chasses anciennes, kayak de mer, chasse sous-marine et chasse à l’arc) mais travaillés par des processus analogues (naturalisation des espaces, sportivisation des usages) dans deux « hauts lieux de nature » en partie protégés, le bassin d’Arcachon et les Calanques de Marseille. Pour l’analyse de tels processus socio-environnementaux, nous avons opté pour une démarche pragmatiste, en retenant notamment les concepts-clés d’expérience, de trouble, d’enquête et de prise. La thèse défendue prend à contrepied le consensus écologique apparent : lorsqu’on les observe « en action », les normalisations écologiques actuelles créent davantage de tensions et de clivages au sein des collectifs d’usagers qu’elles ne les fédèrent. En situations de co-présence au quotidien, les usagers inscrits dans d’autres mondes sociaux que ceux de l’écologie et contrariés dans leurs « passions cognitives » se montrent ambivalents envers les normalisations écologiques. Ils sont partagés entre l'impératif social d’adhésion à l’exemplarité écologique et le rejet de ses appuis normatifs, individualisants et experts (« impact », « écocompatibilité » «écoresponsabilité »). Ces appuis normatifs sont particulièrement présents dans les espaces protégés (parc national des Calanques, réserve naturelle sur le bassin d’Arcachon), où l’écologisation est portée par des acteurs mandatés, les normes sont légales ou réglementaires et traduites en dispositifs de gestion. C’est seulement en tant qu’experts que certains usagers et porte-parole peuvent se faire entendre, sans que ne changent véritablement ni le collectif des participants, ni les manières de formuler les enjeux et les réponses à apporter. Au plan théorique, ces résultats interrogent certaines propositions du pragmatisme. D’un point de vue plus politique, ils nous amènent également à discuter les appuis normatifs des écologisations contemporaines
More and more practiced, “nature sports and leisure” are affected by strong tensions of our societies. How ecologisation of societies – a cognitive, normative and political process – redefines them? This issue is addressed on the basis of various uses (traditional hunting, sea kayaking, submarine fishing, bowhunting) all affected by similar processes (naturalization of places, sportivisation of activities) in two major “places of nature” partly protected, the Arcachon bay and the creeks of Marseille. To analyse these socio-environmental processes, we have chosen a pragmatist approach, particularly with the key-concepts of experience, trouble, inquiry and “prise”. Our thesis refutes the apparent ecological consensus: when they are observed “in actions”, ecological normalisations create more tensions and splits between users than they federate them. In everyday life situations of co-presence, the users aloofs towards ecology - who belong to others social spheres and annoyed in their “cognitive passions” - are ambivalents towards ecological normalisations. They are torn between the social imperative of being ecologically exemplary and the refusal of the individual and expert machinery (“impact”, “ecocompatibility”, “ecoresponsability”) of this process. These norms are particularly strong in the protected areas (national park of Creeks, nature reserve of the Arcachon bay), where mandated actors support ecologisation and legal norms or rules are included in management devices. So it is only as experts that some users and spokesmen can be heard without real changes in the group of participants, nor the framing of the issues and decision-making. At a theoretical level, these results question some assumptions of pragmatism. From a more political point of view, they lead to discuss the normative machinery of contemporary ecologisations
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Peavler, Cheyenne, and Jodi Polaha. "Nature Connectivity in Young Adults: Relationships Between Well-Being, Technology, and the Natural Environment." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6635.

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Past research has demonstrated that people who engage in more frequent contact with nature report higher levels of well-being. However, apathy towards environmental issues has been detected in national samples of adolescents in research spanning over three decades. Previous studies have provided evidence of the relationship between nature relatedness and well-being , but have not fully explored types of factors which contribute to the enhancement of nature connectivity. This study attempts to examine various dimensions of nature connectivity and well-being. Participants were 846 college students between the ages of 18 and 30.Participants responded to an online survey which analyzed environmental attitudes oriented towards environmental concern, pro-environmental behaviors, knowledge of sustainability, nature relatedness, level of technology use, attitudes towards technology, and well-being. Correlations between these variables were examined to determine if the presence or absence of each factor is related to an individual’s relationship with the natural environment. Results were consistent with past research with correlations between nature relatedness and life satisfaction at .082 and between nature relatedness and hopelessness at -.090. These were significant at the .05 and .01 levels, respectively. Pro-environmental behaviors were negatively correlated with technology use and technology attitudes with technology use at -.125 and technology attitudes at -.131. Both were significant at the .01 level. Nature relatedness was positively correlated with pro-environmental behaviors, sustainability knowledge, and positive environmental attitudes at .526, .311, and .510, respectively. These were significant at the .01 level.
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Porto, Adonia F. Porto. "CONSTRUCTING NATURE WITH CHILDREN: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDYOF PRESCHOOLERS' EXPERIENCES WITH(IN) A NATURAL ENVIRONMENT." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1500474439832631.

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Meliani, Inès. "La nature en ville, entre protection, communication et patrimonialisation : approches géographiques dans les territoires du Grand Lyon." Thesis, Lyon, École normale supérieure, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ENSL0829.

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À l’heure où la notion de ville durable s’inscrit au cœur des objectifs des politiques d’aménagement urbain, la nature revient sur le devant de la scène. Il en est ainsi pour ce qui concerne l’Agglomération lyonnaise où, dans leurs démarches visant à écrire la ville d’aujourd’hui et de demain, les acteurs confèrent à la « restauration » de la nature en ville une place majeure. En effet, alors que, longtemps, la présence de la nature dans les villes n’était regardée que comme l’un des éléments consubstantiels au tissu urbain, l’émergence des préoccupations écologistes dans le champ politique a, à partir des années 1990, changé la donne : aujourd’hui, les espaces de nature constituent l’une des pièces prépondérantes dans la panoplie des outils et des mesures mobilisés par les aménageurs pour répondre aux problématiques des villes contemporaines et concevoir la ville de demain. La question des relations entre ville et nature recouvre un champ sémantique complexe conduisant à soulever nombre d’interrogations, auxquelles la présente recherche tente de répondre. Comment et quand les politiques prennent-ils en compte la place de la nature dans la ville ? Au service de qui ? Au service de quoi ? Et à quelles fins ?Ce travail s’appuie sur deux études de cas, complémentaires l’une de l’autre. La première s’applique à analyser la façon dont les instances politiques lyonnaises communiquent sur la nature auprès de leurs administrés depuis vingt ans : de 1989 (élection de Michel Noir à la fonction de maire de Lyon) à 2009 (sous la mandature actuelle de Gérard Collomb).La seconde étude s’est appliquée à analyser les représentations, propres aux acteurs politiques, de la nature en milieu urbain : la patrimonialisation de la nature est apparue, simultanément aux préoccupations environnementales, comme un outil efficace pour prendre en compte la nature en ville
In the current epoch when the concept of the sustainable city is at the heart of urban development policy objectives, nature has returned to front stage. This is certainly the case with regard to the agglomeration of Lyon where, in their substantial effort to pin-point the city of today and tomorrow, the chief proponents confer a major role on the "restoration" of nature in the city. Indeed, for a long time, the presence of nature in cities was regarded as only one of several integral elements of the urban fabric, however, the emergence of ecological preoccupations in the political field has, from the 1990s, changed these circumstances: today, natural spaces constitute a predominant factor in the range of tools and actions mobilised by developers to meet the challenges of contemporary cities and to design the city of tomorrow.The question of the relationship between the city and nature covers a complex semantic field that leads to numerous investigations, which this present research attempts to answer. How and when do policies consider the role of nature in the city? At the service of whom? With what objectives? To what ends?This work is based on two case studies, each complementary to the other. The first seeks to analyse the means by which the political administrators of Lyon communicate the theme of nature to their constituents over a twenty year period: from 1989 (the election of Michel Noir to the office of Mayor of Lyon) to 2009 (under the current term of Gerard Collomb ) .The second study is applied to analyse representations made, specific to the political administrators involved, of nature within the urban milieu : the role of the heritage of nature becomes apparent, simultaneous with environmental concerns, as an effective tool to define nature in the city
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Kihlström, Rebecka. "Kvinnliga jägare i Sverige." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Discourse Studies, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-552.

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Hosseinizadeh, Felicia, and Emelie Solsten. "Utomhuspedagogik från lärarens persektiv : En studie om lärares uppfattnignar om utomhuspedagogik för F-3." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för hälsa, natur- och teknikvetenskap (from 2013), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-84337.

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Syftet med denna undersökning är att bidra med ökad kunskap om lärares uppfattningar om utomhuspedagogiken inom förskoleklass till årskurs tre. I denna undersökning användes intervjuer och enkäter för att samla in information. Vi intervjuade nio verksamma lärare inom F-3 som ansågs som goda exempel på utomhuspedagoger. Dessa lärare hade olika lång erfarenhet samt olika typer av utbildning inom utomhuspedagogik. Den andra forskningsmetoden som användes var en kvantitativ webbenkät vilket 81 lärare inom årskurserna F-3 runt om i Sverige besvarade. Resultaten av undersökningen stämmer överens med vad tidigare forskning säger om utomhuspedagogik som en undervisningsform. Resultaten visar att lärare främst ser många möjligheter med utomhusundervisning som elevernas mående och lärande. Lärare framför en del svårigheter som främst är i form av begränsningar som är utom lärarens kontroll, exempelvis sämre väderförhållanden samt brist på resurs. Denna undersökning visar även att majoriteten av lärarna är överens om att utomhuspedagogik är en undervisningsform som bidrar till inkludering, och detta på grund av utomhusmiljöns möjligheter. De intervjuade lärarna anser att lärarens attityd är avgörande om det blir en lyckad utomhuspedagogik eller inte.
The purpose of this study is to contribute with increased knowledge about teachers' perceptions of outdoor education regarding pupils aged 6-9. In this study, interviews and questioners were used to collect information. We interviewed nine active teachers for ages 6-9, which were considered as good examples of outdoor educators. These teachers had different work experience as well as different types training in outdoor education. The questioners consisted of quantitative online surveys, which were answered by 81 teachers for ages 6-9 around Sweden. The results of the surveys are consistent with previous research about outdoor pedagogy as a form of teaching. The results show that teachers mainly see many opportunities with outdoor teaching such as student learning and prosperous. The teachers in this study present some difficulties that are mainly in the form of limitations that are beyond the teacher's control, such as poor weather conditions and lack of resources. This study also shows that the majority of teachers agree that outdoor education is a form of teaching that contributes to inclusion, because of the possibilities that the outdoor environment presents. The interviewed teachers believe that the teacher's attitude decides whether it will be a successful outdoor education or not.
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Byrd, Lawrence Allen. "The public land manager in collaborative conservation planing: a comparative analysis of three case studies in Montana." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06122009-134838.

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Berglund, Anneli. "Val av område och områdesskydd för Natura 2000 med skogshabitat : En jämförande studie av fyra län i Sverige." Thesis, Södertörn University College, School of Life Sciences, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-1733.

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The Natura 2000 Network is one of the European Unions many tools concerning nature conservation, and is without comparison the premier contribution when it comes to halting the loss of biodiversity. This essay is a case study on how the regional work with the Natura 2000-network has been carried out in four different counties. These counties are Södermanland, Västernorrland, Jämtland and Örebro. They have been compared based on the theoretical concept of sustainable development. This essay describes how the officials in the County Administrations view the regional implementation of Natura 2000 when it comes to the selection of Natura 2000-sites with forest habitats and the creation of an additional protective measure. This study takes its basis in a bottom-up approach which focuses on value conflicts that have emerged regionally and how different fundamental attitudes brings forward different aspects of sustainable development. Interviews with County Administration officials show that there are differences in the approach and different key factors that have affected the selection of sites and the work with area protection. One approach starts from an ecological point of view while the other takes the socio-economic aspect more into consideration during the selection process. Two main factors that have emerged are also the importance of the regional landowner-structure and the evident time- and staff shortage that has been experienced in all four counties. The results also show that the nature reserve form is the most common area protection for Natura 2000-sites with forest habitats in the four examined counties.


Natura 2000-nätverket är ett av EU:s många verktyg och i särklass det främsta bidraget till att hejda förlusten av den biologiska mångfalden. Denna uppsats är en fallstudie för att se hur det regionala arbetet med Natura 2000-nätverket sett ut i fyra olika län. Dessa län är Södermanland, Västernorrland, Jämtland och Örebro län. De har jämförts utifrån det teoretiska begreppet hållbar utveckling. Uppsatsen beskriver hur tjänstemän på länsstyrelserna ser på den regionala implementering av Natura 2000-nätverket när det gäller urval av Natura 2000-område med skogshabitat och tillblivelsen av ett ytterliggare områdesskydd.

Studien utgår från ett underifrånperspektiv som fokuserar på de värdekonflikter som uppstått regionalt och hur olika grundinställningar lyfter fram olika aspekter av hållbar utveckling. Intervjuer med länsstyrelsens aktörer visar att det finns skillnader i tillvägagångssättet och olika nyckelfaktorer som påverkat urvalet av område och arbetet med områdesskyddet. Det ena tillvägagångssättet tar sin grund i ett mer ekologiskt synsätt medan det andra tar större hänsyn till de socioekonomiska aspekterna i urvalsprocessen. Två huvudfaktorer som framkommit är även betydelsen av den regionala markägarstrukturen och den upplevda personal - och tidsbrist som tydligt framgår i alla de fyra undersökta länen. Resultatet visar även att naturreservatsformen är det vanligaste områdesskyddet för Natura 2000-områden med skogshabitat i de fyra studerade länen

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Godden, Lee, and n/a. "Nature as Other: The Legal Ordering of the Natural World: Natural Heritage Law and Its Intersection With Property Law and Native Title." Griffith University. Griffith Law School, 2000. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050831.095124.

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This thesis argues that the legal ordering of the natural environment represents a culturally contingent 'order of things'. Within this process of categorisation, Nature is constructed as an 'other' to the human subject. This opposition allows nature to be conceived as either an object of control, as found in property law, or as a wilderness to be preserved apart from human society. This latter view is implicit to the principles informing early environmental laws for the protection of natural heritage in international law and within Australia. More recently, this distinctively western legal ordering has been challenged to be more culturally inclusive and to include concepts that incorporate human interaction with the natural environment. In making this argument, the thesis adopts a theoretical framework derived from Foucault's 'Order of Things'. Modem western understanding of the natural environment is directly informed by western science. Scientific discourses, with origins in the Enlightenment, have been extremely influential in determining the legal ordering of the natural environment. In this context, the thesis provides an overview of the conceptual shift from a pre-scientific, organic conception of the relationship between people and nature to a people/nature dichotomy that persists as the nature/culture meta-narrative in modern society. The rise of a more holistic conception of the natural environment, based in ecological principles, has only partially displaced the latter view. The thesis also examines the manner in which property law constitutes the 'proper' order of the natural world within western culture. The bundle of rights concept, implicit to modern conceptions of property, finds resonances in western scientific understanding of the natural world. In particular, property law replicates the subject /object distinction that is central to modern western thought. The positing of nature as an object of control through the property relationship has been a resilient ordering of the natural environment. It has directly contributed to an instrumental perception of the natural environment. Indeed, the property concept was the central way of 'constructing' the Australian natural environment at law from colonisation to well into the twentieth century. The initial legal designation of Australia as 'terra nullius' allowed received English property law to form the template for ordering the occupation of the Australian natural environment by British civilisation. In the second half of the 20th century the wilderness ideal, in concert with ecological 'balance' concepts, gained currency in international and domestic law as the foundation for the protection of natural heritage. Natural heritage protection was a high profile aspect of early environmental laws in Australia. Thus the World Heritage Convention assumed an importance for natural heritage protection within Australia due to specific historical, political and constitutional factors. The adoption of 'holistic' definitions of environment in many pieces of Australian legislation has served to partially displace the instrumental, proprietary view of nature. However, the legal recognition of natural heritage, when based around wilderness ideals, remains predicated upon the western people/nature dichotomy. More recently, reforms to early environmental laws have been instituted and case law reveals a state of flux in how natural heritage areas are to be identified and valued. The traditional western legal constructions of nature have served to occlude Aboriginal and Tones Strait Islander peoples' relationships with 'country'. Such legal frameworks continue to be problematic if a more culturally inclusive and holistic conception of heritage, such as cultural landscapes, is to be adopted. Further, while the recognition of native title has led to a re-examination of many fundamental legal principles, reexamination of our western legal constructs remains incomplete. One of the crucial areas yet to be fully worked through is how to accommodate western dualistic notions of the relationship between people and the natural environment with the legal requirements to establish native title. The need for accommodation has direct practical ramifications in that many world heritage, national estate and other 'wilderness' areas are, or may be, subject to native title claims. Therefore, the thesis considers the need to re-assess western, scientifically derived conceptions of natural heritage as the prevailing principles for environmental preservation. Finally the thesis discusses the contingency of any legal ordering of the natural world. Western representations of nature have exerted tremendous influence upon the legal regimes that have regulated and ordered nature across the Australian continent. These classifications are embedded within a particular cultural narrative. Parts of the Australian natural environment that are designated as property, as natural heritage, as native title, or as cultural heritage do not achieve this legal characterisation due to any inherent value or features of the natural environment itself. These areas are not necessarily property or heritage or native title until incorporated within, or recognised by, western legal frameworks. As such, any decision to ascribe a given legal status to the natural environment as part of the legal ordering needs to be seen as involving issues of choice that have direct distributive justice implications.
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Godden, Lee. "Nature as Other: The Legal Ordering of the Natural World: Natural Heritage Law and Its Intersection With Property Law and Native Title." Thesis, Griffith University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368114.

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This thesis argues that the legal ordering of the natural environment represents a culturally contingent 'order of things'. Within this process of categorisation, Nature is constructed as an 'other' to the human subject. This opposition allows nature to be conceived as either an object of control, as found in property law, or as a wilderness to be preserved apart from human society. This latter view is implicit to the principles informing early environmental laws for the protection of natural heritage in international law and within Australia. More recently, this distinctively western legal ordering has been challenged to be more culturally inclusive and to include concepts that incorporate human interaction with the natural environment. In making this argument, the thesis adopts a theoretical framework derived from Foucault's 'Order of Things'. Modem western understanding of the natural environment is directly informed by western science. Scientific discourses, with origins in the Enlightenment, have been extremely influential in determining the legal ordering of the natural environment. In this context, the thesis provides an overview of the conceptual shift from a pre-scientific, organic conception of the relationship between people and nature to a people/nature dichotomy that persists as the nature/culture meta-narrative in modern society. The rise of a more holistic conception of the natural environment, based in ecological principles, has only partially displaced the latter view. The thesis also examines the manner in which property law constitutes the 'proper' order of the natural world within western culture. The bundle of rights concept, implicit to modern conceptions of property, finds resonances in western scientific understanding of the natural world. In particular, property law replicates the subject /object distinction that is central to modern western thought. The positing of nature as an object of control through the property relationship has been a resilient ordering of the natural environment. It has directly contributed to an instrumental perception of the natural environment. Indeed, the property concept was the central way of 'constructing' the Australian natural environment at law from colonisation to well into the twentieth century. The initial legal designation of Australia as 'terra nullius' allowed received English property law to form the template for ordering the occupation of the Australian natural environment by British civilisation. In the second half of the 20th century the wilderness ideal, in concert with ecological 'balance' concepts, gained currency in international and domestic law as the foundation for the protection of natural heritage. Natural heritage protection was a high profile aspect of early environmental laws in Australia. Thus the World Heritage Convention assumed an importance for natural heritage protection within Australia due to specific historical, political and constitutional factors. The adoption of 'holistic' definitions of environment in many pieces of Australian legislation has served to partially displace the instrumental, proprietary view of nature. However, the legal recognition of natural heritage, when based around wilderness ideals, remains predicated upon the western people/nature dichotomy. More recently, reforms to early environmental laws have been instituted and case law reveals a state of flux in how natural heritage areas are to be identified and valued. The traditional western legal constructions of nature have served to occlude Aboriginal and Tones Strait Islander peoples' relationships with 'country'. Such legal frameworks continue to be problematic if a more culturally inclusive and holistic conception of heritage, such as cultural landscapes, is to be adopted. Further, while the recognition of native title has led to a re-examination of many fundamental legal principles, reexamination of our western legal constructs remains incomplete. One of the crucial areas yet to be fully worked through is how to accommodate western dualistic notions of the relationship between people and the natural environment with the legal requirements to establish native title. The need for accommodation has direct practical ramifications in that many world heritage, national estate and other 'wilderness' areas are, or may be, subject to native title claims. Therefore, the thesis considers the need to re-assess western, scientifically derived conceptions of natural heritage as the prevailing principles for environmental preservation. Finally the thesis discusses the contingency of any legal ordering of the natural world. Western representations of nature have exerted tremendous influence upon the legal regimes that have regulated and ordered nature across the Australian continent. These classifications are embedded within a particular cultural narrative. Parts of the Australian natural environment that are designated as property, as natural heritage, as native title, or as cultural heritage do not achieve this legal characterisation due to any inherent value or features of the natural environment itself. These areas are not necessarily property or heritage or native title until incorporated within, or recognised by, western legal frameworks. As such, any decision to ascribe a given legal status to the natural environment as part of the legal ordering needs to be seen as involving issues of choice that have direct distributive justice implications.
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Fitzsimons, James Andrew Fitzsimons James Andrew. "The contribution of multi-tenure reserve networks to biodiversity conservation." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au/adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050817.103606/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Deakin University, 2004.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 23, 2005). Appendix 19 (p. 297-313): Attitudes and perceptions of land managers and owners in the Grassy Box Woodlands Conservation Management Network : a draft confidential report for the New South Wales National Parks & Wildlife Service. 2002. Includes bibliographical references.
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