Results 51 to 60 of about 1,826 (230)
How can children and young people have a voice in urban treescapes?
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Scientific understanding of climate change has, to date, failed to result in sufficient action. This paper proposes that a deficit model of top‐down learning and dissemination in relation to public engagement with science may be part of the problem, particularly when considering the attitudes, values and empowerment of children and young ...
Simon Carr +10 more
wiley +1 more source
Is anthropocentrism really the problem?
Animal Sentience, 2020 Treves et al. (2019) highlight what they consider soft forms of anthropocentrism in the practice and philosophy of conservation, e.g., when even professed non-anthropocentrists assert the precedence of human over nonhuman interests.
Chelsea Batavia
doaj +1 more source
People 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
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Millions of hectares of rangelands have been subject to degeneration through overgrazing, agricultural expansion, urbanisation and afforestation. Countering this, regeneration is a natural process whereby rangeland ecosystems revive themselves.
Ethan Gordon +5 more
wiley +1 more source
The “Animal-Based Food Taboo.” Climate Change Denial and Deontological Codes in Journalism
Frontiers in Communication, 2020 In spite of the well-documented links between global warming and the animal-based diet, human dietary choices have been only timidly problematized by legacy media in the recent decades.
Núria Almiron
doaj +1 more source
The Symbiocene as a transformative vision
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract We live in times of crises and calls for a transformative social‐ecological change are voiced increasingly often. The question is, however, how such a transformation could be achieved. The prevailing view is that we are living in an era in which human activities significantly altered planet Earth: the Anthropocene. According to this narrative,
Tina Heger, Oliver Szasz
wiley +1 more source
Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
wiley +1 more source
Between Ecocentrism and Anthropocentrism: Situating Gandhian Philosophy of Environment
ProblemosWhile Gandhi is portrayed as an inspiration for proponents of ecocentrism, specifically Deep Ecologists like Arne Naess, Ramachandra Guha suggests that Gandhi was more concerned with anthropocentrism.
Koshy Tharakan, Vidya Mary George
doaj +1 more source
Anthropocentric data systems [PDF]
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2011 Arguably, it all started with Mike Dertouzos' vision on the Information Marketplace [2]. Then, an explosion occurred. Social networks. Social computing. Social software. Groupware. Shareware. Open-source software. Personalized query answering and personalized information systems. Tagging. Folksonomies. Log and clickstream mining.
openaire +1 more source
Science Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how integrating sustainability through socio‐scientific issue (SSI) in secondary chemistry teaching shapes epistemic openness and closure from a decolonial perspective, as mediated through classroom discourse. Drawing on a co‐planned lesson on copper mining in Chile – a scientifically rich yet ethically and politically ...
Denise Quiroz‐Martínez
wiley +1 more source