Nga Uruora
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Nga Uruora The Groves Of Life
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Author : Geoff Park
language : en
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Release Date : 2019-07-15
Nga Uruora The Groves Of Life written by Geoff Park and has been published by Victoria University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with History categories.
Part ecology, part history, part personal odyssey, Nga Uruora offers a fresh perspective on our landscapes and our relationships with them. Geoff Park's research focuses on New Zealand's fertile coastal plains, country of rich opportunity for both Maori and European inhabitants, but country whose natural character has vanished from the experience of New Zealanders today.
Nga Uruora
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Author : Geoff Park
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-10-01
Nga Uruora written by Geoff Park and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-10-01 with categories.
NGA URUORA: THE GROVES OF LIFE takes the study of New Zealand's natural environment in radical new directions. Part ecology, part history, part personal odyssey, this book offers a fresh perspective on our landscapes and our relationships with them. Geoff Park's research focuses on New Zealand's fertile coastal plains, country of rich opportunity for both Maori and European inhabitants, but country whose natural character has vanished from the experience of New Zealanders today. Beginning with James Cook's Endeavour party on the Hauraki Plains, and then the New Zealand Company's arrival in the valley that became the Hutt, Park takes us through the river flatlands where the imperatives of colonial settlement transformed the original forests and swamps with ruthless efficiency. NGA URUORA's primary journey, however, is to four auspicious places - Tauwhare on the Mokau River, Papaitonga in Horowhenua, Whanganui Inlet and Punakaiki on the South Island's West Coast - where small remnants of the plains forests' indigenous ecosystems of kahikatea and harakeke still survive. The histories of these places, what they mean to Maori, their ecological vulnerability and their significance for conservation are major concerns. Park ties these issues together through the experience of the places themselves, their magic, immediacy and beauty. Alert to how ecology and history interact, and with respect for different ways of knowledge, Park takes issue with those ecologists who say that by the time Europeans arrived the fertile coastal plains had already been ravaged by Maori. He believes that if the last survivors of nga uruora are to become part of the quest for more sustainable ways with the land, the vital part Maori played keeping them alive last century will have to become central, once again, to their care.
The Gospel And The Land Of Promise
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Author : Tim Bulkeley
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2011-05-13
The Gospel And The Land Of Promise written by Tim Bulkeley and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-13 with Religion categories.
Today the "land of promise" is a spark in the tinder dry atmosphere of Middle Eastern affairs. Events there continue to wield influence among peoples and in places well beyond the region itself. This raises for Christians the acute theological problem of how to relate to the "land of promise" today and in light of the land of the Bible. Our hope is that this volume of essays will contribute to a more informed and theologically coherent response to the "Land of Promise." It is offered here in the name of peace for all peoples in that place and among those who continue to look to her as a place of promise.
Art And Future
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Author : Peter Stupples
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2018-04-18
Art And Future written by Peter Stupples 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 2018-04-18 with Art categories.
This selection of essays examines the future of art in a changing world. In particular, contributors discuss the agency of art in conditions of ecological threats to the natural world, to climate change and the effects of globalisation, neoliberal economics and mass tourism. Following the lead of Chicago-based Frances Whitehead, whose essay is a key text, some contributors take positions on working with local government agencies to embed art-thinking within development projects, going back to the art-thinking at the centre of Kazimir Malevich’s work in Vitebsk one hundred years ago in Russia. Other papers highlight small-scale art interventions that bring ecological issues to public notice and suggest positive responses, whilst others discuss large-scale problems brought about by the social, economic and laissez-faire history of the emerging Anthropocene with possible dystopic outcomes.
Rhythms Of Water
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Author : Nicco McKenzie
language : en
Publisher: Oamaru Print and Copy Ltd
Release Date : 2010-05-10
Rhythms Of Water written by Nicco McKenzie and has been published by Oamaru Print and Copy Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-10 with New Zealand fiction categories.
Save the Waitaki
The Old Country
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Author : George Seddon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2005-10-04
The Old Country written by George Seddon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-04 with Gardening categories.
We are a nation of gardeners, and we take pleasure in tending our backyards. But this pleasure sits uneasily with our knowledge that the places where most of us live are running out of water. We suspect that our lawns and many of our plants from the damp climates of northern European gardens are too demanding of scarce supplies, but can't imagine our streets and gardens without them. The Old Country opens our eyes, and minds, to other possibilities. It does so by telling us stories about our natural landscape. George Seddon believes that the better we understand the delicacy and beauty of our natural environment, the more 'at home' we will feel as Australians. This passionate, wise and witty book, enriched with breathtakingly beautiful illustrations, suggests that the answers to our water problems lie here, at home.
Resistance
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Author : Maria Bargh
language : en
Publisher: Huia Publishers
Release Date : 2007
Resistance written by Maria Bargh and has been published by Huia Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
New Zealand is one of the world leaders of neoliberalism, and since 1984 its government has pursued neoliberal policies with a confidence that few other governments possess. Resistance is a collection by New Zealand indigenous Mā ori academics, activists, and leaders on resistance to neoliberalism. This unique book features a range of views that are often invisible to current debates on globalization.
Disputed Territories
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Author : David S. Trigger
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2003-12-01
Disputed Territories written by David S. Trigger and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Disputed Territories investigates the significance of land for contesting cultural identities in comparable settler societies. In the regions of Australasia and southern Africa, European visions of landscape and nature have engaged with southern hemisphere environments and the cultures of indigenous peoples. Amid conflicts over land as a material resource, there has also been an intellectual contest over the aesthetic, iconic and cultural meanings of natural forms and species.Arising from a programme of seminars held at The University of Western Australia, this collection of eminent international authors assembles contributions from anthropology, geography, history and literary studies. The combination of diverse methods and theoretical approaches establishes the ways that land and nature constitute disputed territories in the mind, as well as material resources subject to pragmatic negotiations.
The Face Of The Earth
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Author : SueEllen Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-08-22
The Face Of The Earth written by SueEllen Campbell and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-22 with Nature categories.
This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains—volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests—to explore how humans have made sense of our planet’s marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and personal stories, The Face of the Earth examines mirages and satellite images, swamp-dwelling heroes and Tibetan nomads, cave paintings and popular movies, investigating how we live with the great shaping forces of nature—from fire to changing climates and the intricacies of adaptation. The book illuminates subjects as diverse as the literary life of hollow Earth theories, the links between the Little Ice Age and Frankenstein’s monster, and the spiritual allure of deserts and their scarce waters. Including vivid, on-the-spot accounts by scientists and writers in Saudi Arabia, Australia, Alaska, England, the Rocky Mountains, Antarctica, and elsewhere, The Face of the Earth charts the depth and complexity of our interdependence with the natural world.
Science And Sensibility
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Author : Michael Vincent McGinnis
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2016-03-22
Science And Sensibility written by Michael Vincent McGinnis and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-22 with Science categories.
If humans are to understand and discover ways of addressing complex social and ecological problems, we first need to find intimacy with our particular places and communities. Cultivating a relationship to place often includes a negotiating process that involves both science and sensibility. While science is one key part of an adaptive and resilient society, the cultivation of a renewed sense of place and community is essential as well. Science and Sensibility argues for the need for ecology to engage with philosophical values and economic motivations in a political process of negotiation, with the goal of shaping humans' treatment of the natural world. Michael Vincent McGinnis aims to reframe ecology so it might have greater Òtrans-scientificÓ awareness of the roles and interactions among multiple stakeholders in socioecological systems, and he also maintains that deep ecological knowledge of specific places will be crucial to supporting a sustainable society. He uses numerous specific case studies from watershed, coastal, and marine habitats to illustrate how place-based ecological negotiation can occur, and how reframing our negotiation process can influence conservation, restoration, and environmental policy in effective ways. Ê