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The Personalised Ecology Index: A novel measure of an individual's direct sensory interactions with nature

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity is under threat from human activities globally. The implications for human–nature interactions may be driving a vicious cycle—whereby less biodiversity means fewer human–nature interactions, less awareness of the importance of biodiversity and therefore greater human impacts.
Frederica A. Poznansky, Mark Ferguson, Lewis R. Elliott, Joanne K. Garrett, Rebecca Lovell, Benjamin B. Phillips, Kevin J. Gaston   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives and behaviors surrounding planting practices in North America inform genetic conservation realities for American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius)

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
American ginseng is a shade‐obligate, North American medicinal plant that is widely traded and used internationally. To meet global demand, ginseng is cultivated in forest farms in the Appalachian region of the USA and field‐based artificial shade farms in two regions: Ontario, Canada and Wisconsin, USA. We conducted social research leveraging in‐depth
Rachel E. Palkovitz, Mary K. Shenk, Eric P. Burkhart   +2 more
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

Proposing a Framework to Center Justice in Ambitious Science Teaching

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Though educators and researchers have developed shared theory and language for priorities necessary to disrupt the status quo toward more equitable science education, we lack a tool that organizes sets of teaching practices across an instructional unit to support enactment and rehearsal.
April Luehmann, Gena Merliss, Todd Campbell, Déana Scipio, Yang Zhang, Hannah Cooke, Elizabeth Wilson, Priya Pugh, Adma Gama‐Krummel   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Action Delay Discourses in the Sports Sector: Insights From Interviews With Athletes and Staff

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is a major contradiction between the current model of international elite sport and efforts to mitigate climate change. This study investigates climate action delay discourses within the sports sector by analyzing 28 semi‐structured interviews with athletes and sports federation employees.
Pascal Stegmann, Manuel Suter
wiley   +1 more source

James Joyce’s Trojan Hobby-Horse: The Iliad and the Collective Unconscious Ulysses [PDF]

Annals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 2013
James Joyce’s Ulysses rewrites the Homeric Odyssey in such a way that the ancient myth provides a structural pattern, which gives order and meaning to a seemingly chaotic and meaningless contemporary world – an aspect which T. S.
Dieter Fuchs
doaj  

I Better “Not to”: Voluntary Sustainability Constraints in Mindful Organic Food Consumption

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to understand constraints from limitations and skepticism to a form of agency in consumer ethics. Framed in Granular Interaction Thinking theory, our study addresses the research question of how the voluntary sustainability constraints leverage mindful consumption.
Neha Sharma, Agnieszka Kabalska, Swati Singh, Ralf Wagner   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Archetype as a Way of Understanding the Surrounding World by an Ethnocultural Linguistic Personality

Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
The relevance of this problem stems from scholarly interest in examining and understanding the specific linguistic consciousness of the titular peoples of Kabardino-Balkaria, who possess a unique and distinctive culture.
Marina Ch. Shogenova
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Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Institutional Work in Sustainability Reporting: Scale Development and Validation in the Oil and Gas Sector

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability reporting has gained significant importance in assessing and enhancing organisational sustainability performance. However, there has been limited focus on how sustainability reporting managers (SRMs) perceive and engage in the institutional work that underpins reporting practices.
Hania Rehman, Muhammad Abid Saleem, Ali Rkein, David Low   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source