Nature and Culture : Rebuilding Lost Connections

ISBN-13: 9781844078219 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 275 str.

Sarah Pilgrim

Opis

This text goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and cultural diversity. It explores the common drivers of loss of both biological and cultural diversity. It indicates that policy responses should target biological and cultural diversity in an integrative approach to conservation.

Spis treści

1. Nature and Culture: An Introduction  Part 1: Science in Practice  2. Bridging the Gap: Interdisciplinarity, Biocultural Diversity and Conservation  3. Measuring Status and Trends in Biological and Cultural Diversity  Part 2: Landscape and Diversity  4. No Land Apart: Nature, Culture, Landscape  5. From Colonial Encounter to Decolonizing Encounters. Culture and Nature seen from the Andean Cosmovision of Ever: the Nurturance of Life as Whole  6. The Dual Erosion of Biological and Cultural Diversity: Implications for the Health of Eco-Cultural Systems  Part 3: Hunting  7. Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity: The Interdependent and the Indistinguishable  8. Challenging Animals: Project and Process in Hunting  Part 4: Agriculture  9. Culture and Agrobiodiversity: Understanding the Links  10. Food Cultures: Linking People to Landscapes  Part 5: Reconnection  11. Sacred Nature and Community Conserved Areas  12. Solastalgia and the Creation of New Ways of Living  13. EcoCultural Revitalisation: Replenishing Community Connections to the Land  14. Nature and Culture: Looking to the Future for Human-Environment Systems  Index