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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Many sea turtle populations face severe declines in the Asia‐Pacific region and, although threats are widely recognised, drivers are practically unknown, especially in Indonesia. We surveyed 140 respondents at three sites in Sumatra, Indonesia (Padang, Mentawai, Nias) to identify how sociodemographic and cultural characteristics across these ...
Adela Hemelikova +8 more
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Bajji on the Beach: Middle-Class Food Practices in Chennai’s New Beach [PDF]
, 2012 This book produced by a group of interdisciplinary and international researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and ..
Arabindoo, P
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Attempts to address biodiversity loss have led to ecosystem and species restoration efforts. Tree species restoration is particularly relevant because of increasing threats from pests and pathogens. However, there are different notions of ‘loss’, as well as sociocultural considerations, including social acceptability, which are often neglected
Fritha West +4 more
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Acta Agrobotanica, 2012 The impoverishment of synanthropic vegetation has been observed in Polish cities for at least half a century. It relates to both the decrease in the area of its occurrence and reduction in species diversity.
Ewa Trzaskowska
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, 2016 Impressional and comparative reflection about the existence and the operation of selected cities in a context of their unique aesthetics and beauty, by a painter, draftsman and designer, the chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. A description
Tabisz, Stanisław
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Aesthetic Engagement in the City
Contemporary Aesthetics, 2013 This article aims at showing how environmental aesthetics relates to the common environment, the ordinary environment that we discuss, share, and live in. Aesthetics has primarily been understood in relation to art and art history, but it has now been emancipated from this framework of interpretation.
Blanc, Nathalie, Rosen, Miriam
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The environmental aesthetics of Sarajevo: A city shaped by memory
, 2017 This article discusses aesthetic singularity in present-day Sarajevo and shows how time generates a social response to the visual quality of space. Acknowledging the metamorphosis of the cityscape with regard to the identity reformulation of post-war ...
Erna Husukić, Emina Zejnilović
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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract While serving many useful functions, artificial light at night (ALAN) also leads to the erosion of natural darkness, and of the various benefits that exposure to darkness provides. Yet, we know little about how people perceive ALAN—where they want it, why and when they prefer darkness.
Ellen Cieraad, Jeff Dalley
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, 2016 Various forms of street art, such as murals, anamorphic painting or urban interventions, become an important component of urban space. The paper examines examples of selected works of urban art in the context of space and its reception. These unexpected “
Gralińska-Toborek, Agnieszka
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The “futurist” aesthetics of ISIS
, 2017 ISIS propaganda differs from that of other (Islamic or non-Islamic) religions or cults as it is not so much concerned with imagination and exotic fantasies but accentuates the maximal exploitation and demonstration of available technology.
T. Botz-Bornstein
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