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Transformation of Nature: Changing Relations between Nature and Society
Changing relations between humans, society, and nature under the influence of social and economic acceleration include anthropogenic changes in...
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From Nature to Biology
In this chapter we historicize key debates around law and nature and engage with legal theory and the scholarship emerging from the history of...
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(Re)Connecting with Nature: Exploring Nature-Based Interventions for Psychological Health and Wellbeing
Given the ever-expanding body of evidence that nature is good for our psychological wellbeing, many have argued that nature-based interventions have...
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Reconnecting humans with nature: a nature‐based participatory approach for the enhancement of biodiversity knowledge in urban area of West Bengal, India
As it is known that “reconnecting to nature” is essential for sustainability, there are few studies on why reconnecting humans to nature is essential...
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Nature-Based Eco-Hydraulic Technology
The last decades have been characterized by increasing extreme events including storm surges, flooding, coastal erosion, and enhanced coastal...
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The means and ends of nature
What should sociologists make of nature? Pragmatism provides one possible answer to this question by centering the practical relations between humans...
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Understanding the Rights of Nature: Working Together Across and Beyond Disciplines
Recognising the rights of nature is seen by many as the paradigm shift needed to truly embed ecology and the environment into nature-based policy and...
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A Heritage Without Boundaries: Nature-Culture Synergies in and around Norwegian Protected Landscapes
We address the question of nature-culture synergies in protected mountain landscapes with a specific focus on the Norwegian National Park of...
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Elite Environmental Aesthetics: Placing Nature in a Changing Climate
What does it mean to escape to nature in a changing climate? We investigate the properties that make a place resonant with ideas of “nature,”...
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Transcending the nature/culture dichotomy: cultivated and cultured World Heritage nature
This paper argues that more nuanced understandings of how people relate to nature are needed. The study investigates and discusses understandings,...
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Islam and Engagements with Nature; Theology and Practice
This chapter explores Islamic engagements with nature both in theology and in lived practice. The lived practice section focusses on the experiences...
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Nature-based Tourism in Zimbabwe: Sustainability Issues
Nature-based tourism in Southern Africa is seen as a vehicle for spearheading sustainable rural development. In the past, various frameworks have...
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Nature Conservation Policies and Tourism in Spain
The state is slowly withdrawing from the management of natural sites to guarantee its public use, because neoliberal, territorial and environmental...
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A Vision of Nature
Gabriel and Tilda walked side by side in deep conversation. Suddenly they stopped together in the middle of the road and looked around, awestruck....
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The Route into Nature: The Landscape of Mobility
Nature is the principal attraction cited by tourists for visiting Iceland. The diverse natural attractions in various locations across the country...
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Nature, Society, and Marginality Case Studies from Nepal, Southeast Asia and other regions
This book focuses on the interrelations between nature and humans, in particular on those segments of societies that have been left behind (marginal...
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Promoting Sustainable Well-Being Through Nature-Based Interventions for Young People in Precarious Situations: Implications for Social work. A Systematic Review
Precarious situations disproportionately affect the well-being of young people. Social workers are concerned with sustainable ways to improve young...
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Appraising Nature: A Pan-Experiential Approach to Nature’s Agency
To what extent does Nature have agency? Differing conceptions of nature’s agency can affect how a person relates to nature, and that in turn, may...
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Contributions to Longevity and Well-being from Nature
Centenarians are a small but increasing population of interest. A growing body of literature identifies a combination of potential genetic,...