Instituting Nature
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Instituting Nature
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Author : Andrew S. Mathews
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2011-11-04
Instituting Nature written by Andrew S. Mathews and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-04 with Science categories.
A study of how encounters between forestry bureaucrats and indigenous forest managers in Mexico produced official knowledge about forests and the state. Greater knowledge and transparency are often promoted as the keys to solving a wide array of governance problems. In Instituting Nature, Andrew Mathews describes Mexico's efforts over the past hundred years to manage its forests through forestry science and biodiversity conservation. He shows that transparent knowledge was produced not by official declarations or scientists' expertise but by encounters between the relatively weak forestry bureaucracy and the indigenous people who manage and own the pine forests of Mexico. Mathews charts the performances, collusions, complicities, and evasions that characterize the forestry bureaucracy. He shows that the authority of forestry officials is undermined by the tension between local realities and national policy; officials must juggle sweeping knowledge claims and mundane concealments, ambitious regulations and routine rule breaking. Moving from government offices in Mexico City to forests in the state of Oaxaca, Mathews describes how the science of forestry and bureaucratic practices came to Oaxaca in the 1930s and how local environmental and political contexts set the stage for local resistance. He tells how the indigenous Zapotec people learned the theory and practice of industrial forestry as employees and then put these skills to use when they become the owners and managers of the area's pine forests—eventually incorporating forestry into their successful claims for autonomy from the state. Despite the apparently small scale and local contexts of this balancing act between the power of forestry regulations and the resistance of indigenous communities, Mathews shows that it has large implications—for how we understand the modern state, scientific knowledge, and power and for the global carbon markets for which Mexican forests might become valuable.
Wild Life
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Author : Irus Braverman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-06
Wild Life written by Irus Braverman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-06 with Law categories.
Wild Life documents a nuanced understanding of the wild versus captive divide in species conservation. It also documents the emerging understanding that all forms of wild nature—both in situ (on-site) and ex situ (in captivity)—may need to be managed in perpetuity. Providing a unique window into the high-stakes world of nature conservation, Irus Braverman describes the heroic efforts by conservationists to save wild life. Yet in the shadows of such dedication and persistence in saving the life of species, Wild Life also finds sacrifice and death. Such life and death stories outline the modern struggle to define what conservation should look like at a time when the long-established definitions of nature have collapsed. Wild Life begins with the plight of a tiny endangered snail, and ends with the rehabilitation of an entire island. Interwoven between its pages are stories about golden lion tamarins in Brazil, black-footed ferrets in the American Plains, Sumatran rhinos in Indonesia, Tasmanian devils in Australia, and many more creatures both human and nonhuman. Braverman draws on interviews with more than one hundred and twenty conservation biologists, zoologists, zoo professionals, government officials, and wildlife managers to explore the various perspectives on in situ and ex situ conservation and the blurring of the lines between them.
Children S Nature Study Leaflet
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Author : Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Nature Study Bureau
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
Children S Nature Study Leaflet written by Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (Va.). Nature Study Bureau and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with categories.
The Nature Study Movement
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Author : Kevin C. Armitage
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Nature Study Movement written by Kevin C. Armitage and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Education categories.
The first comprehensive history of the nature study movement and its significance to American environmental thought and politics. Argues that nature study advocates, through their systematic program or educating children about nature, formed a critical foundation for the launching of the conservation movement.
Cartographies Of Nature
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Author : Maano Ramutsindela
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-19
Cartographies Of Nature written by Maano Ramutsindela and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-19 with Social Science categories.
The ascendancy of border studies in the last two decades or so, and the burgeoning work on nature and society neither drew attention to ecological theories of borders nor capitalised on nature as a useful avenue through which border research could be advanced. This volume fills this void by engaging with the following key questions: What insights can be drawn from species’ borders to broaden understandings of bordering? What sorts of borders are engendered by various types of conservation areas? What border stories does each of these areas tell us? What do conservation-related borders teach us about multiple lines that divide societies? Answers to these questions help researchers understand a typology of nature-related borders. The primary objectives of this volume are twofold. The first objective is to expand and deepen the links between nature conservation and border studies by bringing species’ borders into conversation with border studies, while at the same time paying attention to diverse conservation areas and conservation practices. The second objective is to highlight forms of borders associated with various types of conservation areas and the protection of certain types of natural resources. The manner in which nature conservation produces borders, and the forms those borders take, has the potential to enrich the conceptualisation of borders. The point of departure in this volume is that conservation practices produce feedback loops on social reality. Authors in the volume variously show that concerns with environmental protection and management offer possibilities for exploring, and even disrupting, borders within society and those between society and nature. Conservation areas in particular are crucial for a meaningful analysis of natures’ borders and the discourses and narratives related to them, and how such discourses influence conservation practice. This volume is an invaluable resource for research and upper-level courses on border studies, political ecology, conservation and biodiversity management, and environmental change and social impact.
The Fellowship Prayer Meeting The Institution Nature History And Advantages Of Select Christian Fellowship
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Author : Thomas Houston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
The Fellowship Prayer Meeting The Institution Nature History And Advantages Of Select Christian Fellowship written by Thomas Houston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1856 with Christian life categories.
Conserving The World S Biological Diversity
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Author : Jeffrey A. McNeely
language : en
Publisher: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural
Release Date : 1990
Conserving The World S Biological Diversity written by Jeffrey A. McNeely and has been published by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Nature categories.
Biological diversity: what it is a and why it is important; The values of biological diversity; How and why biological resources are threatened; Approaches to conserving biological diversity; The information required to conserve biological diversity; Establishing priorities for conserving biological diversity; The role of strategies and action plans in promoting conservation of biological diversity; How to pay for coserving biological diversity; Enlisting new partners for conservation of biological diversity.
Sacramental Theology
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Author : Bruce T. Morrill
language : en
Publisher: MDPI
Release Date : 2019-11-18
Sacramental Theology written by Bruce T. Morrill and has been published by MDPI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-18 with Religion categories.
Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, sacramental theology has evolved as a discipline advancing comprehensive theories of sacraments and sacramentality as integral to the Christian faith while also studying the history and theology of the particular rites. Now, in the twenty-first century, the need for attention to the actual performance and specific social settings of sacramental worship has become well established. This makes the work of sacramental theology necessarily engaged with multiple, cross-disciplinary theories attentive to particular contexts, whether local, national, or global. Still, the divine human encounter at the heart of Christian symbol and ritual likewise beckons to philosophical–theological reflection. The essays in this volume begin with profound philosophical perspectives on the personal and communal sacramental experience, expanding from traditional cosmology to evolutionary and chaos theories of our planetary existence, continuing with shifts, especially among youth, to interreligious and non-institutional perspectives, consideration of change in popular notions of guilt, and social–ethical issues in relation to liturgical theology and practice, so as finally to return to fundamental theological reflection on human sacramentality and divine revelation.
Embodiment
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Author : Dr David Jasper
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2014-03-28
Embodiment written by Dr David Jasper and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-28 with Philosophy categories.
This book examines a number of landmark shifts in our account of the relationship between human and divine existence, as reflected through the perception of time and corporeal experience. Drawing together some of the best scholars in the field, this book provides a representative cross-section of influential trends in the philosophy of religion (e.g. phenomenology, existential thought, Biblical hermeneutics, deconstruction) that have shaped our understanding of the body in its profane and sacred dimensions as site of conflicting discourses on presence and absence, subjectivity and the death of the subject, mortality, resurrection and eternal life.
The Barbarian Principle
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Author : Jason M. Wirth
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2013-09-04
The Barbarian Principle written by Jason M. Wirth and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-04 with Philosophy categories.
Toward the end of his life, Maurice Merleau-Ponty made a striking retrieval of F. W. J. Schelling's philosophy of nature. The Barbarian Principle explores the relationship between these two thinkers on this topic, opening up a dialogue with contemporary philosophical and ecological significance that will be of special interest to philosophers working in phenomenology and German idealism.