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Combined storytelling and mapping approaches for increasing community engagement with woodland creation and expansion projects

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests and woodlands are important for biodiversity, climate change mitigation and the provision of services including recreation, timber and non‐timber forest products. Land use policies currently aim to increase forest cover while also maximising the benefits of forests for people and improving community engagement with the process of ...
Sarah Greenwood   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Modal Ontology of Imagination: New conversations in neo-Kantian and everyday aesthetics [PDF]

open access: yes
Everyday aesthetics has been accused of being ontologically and systematically juvenile for a variety of reasons, such as the rejection of some major claims of Kantian aesthetics, its relative newness, its disparate methodologies, and the theoretical and
de Boer, Julia
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The future of Asian and Pacific cities 2023 : crisis resilient urban futures

open access: yes, 2023
The lead authors of the report chapters were as follows: Shocks in the city: multiple interlinked crises test sustainable urban development: Omar Siddique, Sustainable Urban Development Section, ESCAP Urban and territorial planning for resilient and ...
UN.ESCAP   +1 more
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New Aesthetics for House and Workspace. From the War Against Smells to the Search of Perfumes [PDF]

open access: yesPad
The sense of smell has long been expunged from aesthetic reflection. Although we could refer to Condillac and the famous example of the statue that comes to life starting from the sense of smell, the French philosopher himself believed that smell was the
Pierluigi Panza
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New urban recreational spaces. Attractiveness, infrastructure arrangements, identity. The example of the city of Łódź

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2018
Services related to leisure time are treated as an important factor in the development of cities - a factor creating urban recreational spaces. It is also important to provide such spaces with appropriate elements of infrastructure, which would ...
Mokras-Grabowska Justyna
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Caring for forests between attitude and platitude. Social relationships with nature in industrial forestry in Äänekoski, Finland

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and opportunities for further enhancing urban garden biodiversity: Insights from a behaviour change model for the United Kingdom

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Urbanisation poses a major threat to biodiversity, yet residential gardens offer opportunities to provide key habitats for urban wildlife. Understanding both the perceived feasibility of implementing further improvements to gardens for biodiversity and the barriers that constrain engagement is essential for designing effective conservation ...
Kelly Hitchcock   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

„Miasto nigdy się nie kończy…”. Mroczne oblicze miasta w prozie Herty Müller

open access: yesStudia Rossica Posnaniensia
One of the recurring motifs in Herta Müllerʼs work is the experience of the city, which often becomes a space of threat, violence, uncertainty, and finally repression and death.
Estera Głuszko-Boczoń
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The place bonding potential of nature‐based citizen science with refugee children and youth

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature‐based citizen science often involves close interaction with places. In addition to providing benefits, such as learning opportunities and contact with nature, it can facilitate and shape bonds between people and places. Research exploring the place bonding potential of such projects is still in its infancy. This paper addresses this gap
Ekaterina Egorova
wiley   +1 more source

Shrinking cities in Australia

open access: yes, 2007
Shrinkage is not a topic of much discussion in most OECD countries where the planning paradigm of growth has dominated the scene for many years. However, the debate has recently intensified in Germany, especially regarding its Eastern cities, posing new ...
Martinez-Fernandez, Cristina   +1 more
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