Nature and culture : rebuilding lost connections / edited by Sarah Pilgrim and Jules Pretty.
Contributor(s): Pilgrim, Sarah [edt] | Pretty, Jules N [edt].
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BookPublisher: New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013Description: xvii, 275 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415813549 (pbk.).Subject(s): HUMAN ECOLOGY | BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | CULTURAL PLURALISM | ENVIRONMENT | ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONDDC classification: 304.2 | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due |
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First edition published 2010 by Earthscan.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Nature and Culture: An Introduction
Part I. Science in Practice
2. Bridging the Gap: Interdisciplinarity, Biocultural Diversity and Conservation
3. Measuring Status and Trends in Biological and Cultural Diversity
Part II. 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 Ecocultural Systems
Part III. Hunting
7. Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity: The Interdependent and the Indistinguishable
8. Challenging Animals: Project and Process in Hunting
Part IV. Agriculture
9. Culture and Agrobiodiversity: Understanding the Links
10. Food Cultures: Linking People to Landscapes
Part V. Reconnection
11. Sacred Nature and Community Conserved Areas
12. Solastalgia and the Creation of New Ways of Living
13. Ecocultural Revitalization: Replenishing Community Connections to the Land
14. Nature and Culture: Looking to the Future for Human-Environment Systems.
There is a growing recognition that the diversity of life comprises both biological and cultural diversity. But this division is not universal and, in many cases, has been deepened by the common disciplinary divide between the natural and social sciences and our apparent need to manage and control nature. This book goes beyond divisive definitions and investigates the bridges linking biological and cultural diversity. The authors explore the common drivers of loss, and argue that policy responses should target both forms of diversity in a novel integrative approach to conservation, thus reducing the gap between science, policy and practice. While conserving nature alongside human cultures presents unique challenges, this book forcefully shows that any hope for saving biological diversity is predicated on a concomitant effort to appreciate and protect cultural diversity.
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