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Nature's values, drivers and perceived influence on ecosystem services shape agroecological livestock farming in the Netherlands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The environmental benefits of agroecological farm management have been demonstrated, but its uptake is still lagging. Understanding how specific practices relate to drivers and ecosystem services (ES), and what values of nature underlie those factors can be useful in understanding what type of practices are preferred by farmers under which ...
Loes A. Verkuil   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Technical wildness: Modernity, romanticism, and the technocratic turn in Scottish rewilding

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Technical wildness is a new and increasingly influential culture of nature. This paper marks its emergence in Scotland in the early 2020s. Focusing on Scotland's rapidly evolving land management sector, the paper traces how private rewilding companies position science‐led land management and natural capital markets as the most effective ...
Theo Stanley
wiley   +1 more source

Aesthetics and Semiotics of Communication in Visual Language: A Multimodal Criticism on the Short Film of Ismail

open access: yesTheory and Practice in Language Studies
This conceptual paper aims to present a multimodal critique of the visual language in the short film Ismail. It analyses the social semiotics represented in the film's composition of image and language, which portrays a day story from the Palestinian ...
M. Al-Abbas   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Landscape morphology : a comparative study of landscape aesthetics. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
This research is about landscape aesthetics. Aesthetics is not purely Platonic but a result of human communication with nature which relates to landscape experience and, in turn, reflects and guides the way people appreciate, paint and design.
Wu, Jiahua
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What turns us off about green and blue spaces in cities? Understanding perceived problems and unpleasant experiences for more just urban planning, design and management

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The planning, design and management of urban green and blue spaces necessitate trade‐offs between these spaces' many benefits and their drawbacks, but knowledge of perceived problems and unpleasant experiences in urban green and blue spaces remains limited.
Alyssa L. Solvie   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exhibitions, Histories: Showing, Telling, Seeing and Beyond

open access: yesBritish Art Studies, 2019
The global turn in the discipline of art history over the past decade has generated new accounts of modernism and modernity, challenging Eurocentric, and especially Greenbergian, narratives of modern art.
Sonal Khullar
doaj   +1 more source

Inspiration: An Analysis of Students' Conception of Inspiration in Art and Design

open access: yes, 2015
This study aims to establish an analysis of the inspirational sources used in creative working by students of the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Lapland.
Stolz, Laura Elisabeth
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Literature in Transition : European aesthetics and the early American novel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper seeks to account for the strangely double nature of the early American novel. For twenty-first-century readers, novels such as Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modem Chivalry, Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple or Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland seem
Schweighauser, Philipp
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Multi‐Scale Characterization of PLA Composites With Natural‐Based Reinforcements: From Filament to 3D‐Printed Parts

open access: yesPolymer Composites, EarlyView.
Thermal, microstructural, and mechanical characterization of 3D‐printed PLA composite parts. ABSTRACT To address plastic waste and agricultural residue underutilization, this study evaluates the thermal (DSC and FTIR), microstructural (SEM), and mechanical behavior of polylactic acid (PLA) reinforced with flax fibers and olive pit particles, processed ...
P. N. B. Reis   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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