Research on human-environment interactions often neglects the resources of the humanities. Hurricane Katrina and the resulting levee breaches in New Orleans offer a case study on the need for inclusion of the humanities in the study of human-environment interactions, particularly the resources they provide in examining ethics and value concerns. Methods from the humanities, when developed in partnership with those from the sciences and social sciences, can provide a more accurate, effective, and just response to the scientific and technological challenges we face as a global community.
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In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Sep 2007
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- Research Article
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- 210–222 (13 total)
Ryan Gunderson
negotiations, cheapness of fossil fuel resources), but any comprehensive investigation will involve ideological analysis. Environmental social scientists have examined the role of ideology in human-nature relations (e.g., Sunderlin 2003 ; Best 2009
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Research Article
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- 263–289 (27 total)
Constanza Parra and Casey Walsh
institutions in this region as holding utopian potential but also problems for the recovery/reconstruction of sustainable human-nature relations. Donna Houston, Diana McCallum, Wendy Steele, and Jason Byrne explore the ways that residents of Australian cities
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Introduction
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- 229–238 (10 total)
Introduction
People and Plants
Kay E. Lewis-Jones
. 2013 . “ Animals, Plants, People, and Things: A Review of Multispecies Ethnography .” Environment and Society: Advances in Research 4 , no. 1 : 5 – 24 . 10.3167/ares.2013.040102 Power , Emma R. 2005 . “ Human–Nature Relations in Suburban Gardens
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
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- Research Article
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- 1–7 (7 total)
Margrethe Bruun Vaage and Gabriella Blasi
-mindedness in bringing together philosophy, natural sciences, and social sciences in tackling the complex issues related to human-nature relations. The general aim of ecocriticism is, however, very practical: generating changes in the dysfunctional way humans
Biomimicry as a Meta-Resource and Megaproject
A Literature Review
Veronica Davidov
form of engagement with nature to traditional indigenous knowledge processes and frequently invokes explicit parallels with indigenous subsistence-dwelling cultures (onto which Western fantasies of harmonious human-nature relations are commonly
In Environment and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
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- 29–47 (19 total)
Donna Houston, Diana McCallum, Wendy Steele, and Jason Byrne
“cosmopolitical”—after all, their reach is hardly cosmic. How do these case studies and practices alter human-nature relations, and actors’ intentionality? We believe that these relationships of local human-nature action in, with, and to a climate-changed city
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 259–277 (19 total)
Social Lives and Symbolic Capital
Indigenous ‘Oil Lawsuits’ as Sites of Order and Disorder Making
Veronica Davidov
largely articulated around the topic of human-nature relations, where ‘organic’ engagement with nature validated certain groups, referred to by Warren and Jackson (2002: 10) as “authenticators” and described by Lucero (2006: 35) as “actors who
Explicating Ecoculture
Tracing a Transdisciplinary Focal Concept
Melissa M. Parks
human-nature relations. Shortly after this early employment in US cultural studies, ecoculture became a topic of significance in the field of cross-cultural psychology. 1995: Ecocultural Cross-Cultural Psychology, Canada In the 1970s, ecological models
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2020
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 54–77 (24 total)
Ariela Zycherman
quantitative nature of spatial analysis has separated out Human–Nature relations from the space itself. Although produced in a particular space, the world’s industries are no longer determined by or centered near that location, markets are global and are
In Environment and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Sep 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 71–88 (18 total)
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