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The Relational Ontology Framework

This paper formalizes the Relational Ontology Framework (ROF) and the Relational Coherence Theory (RCT), proposing an ontological substrate based on the non-associative normed division algebra of octonions (\mathbb{O}). By rejecting the premise of matter as a fundamental substance and spacetime as a pre-existing container, we formalize reality as the ...
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Human–wildlife coexistence and social context: Evidence from farmer communities in southern Sri Lanka

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Studies on human–wildlife interactions (HWI) often focus on conflict mitigation studies, thus overlooking underlying factors that influence community decisions to coexist with wildlife. To address this knowledge gap, we collected empirical evidence of how community interactions with wildlife are shaped by their social contexts.
Anuradhi Dulangi Jayasinghe, Georgette Leah Burns, Johanna Nalau, Duan Biggs   +3 more
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Resilience for restoration: Insights from the Northern Great Plains native seed system

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Native plants are essential to ecological restoration and culturally important to local and Tribal communities, yet native seed systems across the United States (US) struggle to meet restoration demand. In the US Northern Great Plains, land conversion of native ecosystems means restoration potential is high but constrained by an underdeveloped
Elena Friedman, Lauren Redmore, Lora Perkins, Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek   +3 more
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Ontology Winnowing: A Case Study on the AKT Reference Ontology

, 2005
Many ontologies are built for the main purpose of representing a domain, rather than to meet the requirements of a specific application. When applications and services are deployed over an ontology, it is sometimes the case that only few parts of the ...
Harris, Steven, Alani, Harith, O'Neil, Ben   +2 more
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Remaking place relations for social‐ecological restoration: Reflections on placemaking in South Africa

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Ecological restoration is an ongoing relational process involving interconnected reciprocal social and biophysical interactions that shift and change over time and space. Conceptual literature proposes that placemaking can deepen and enhance the understanding and implementation of social‐ecological restoration processes as part of broader ...
Ancois de Villiers, Karen J. Esler, Jessica Cockburn, Marja Spierenburg   +3 more
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Envisioning human–nature relationships in the Wadden: An embodied, arts‐based approach for exploring relational, more‐than‐human futures

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Dominant approaches to imagining futures are often anthropocentric, emphasising socio‐technical change without fully accounting for human–nature relationships. Yet sustainability transformations demand approaches to imagining alternative, desirable futures that centre respectful and reciprocal human–nature relationships and reveal the ...
Jay Marisca Gietzelt, Maria Tengö, Bas Verschuuren, Kasper Kok   +3 more
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The Ontological Primacy of Being-With: Caring as Communion. [PDF]

Scand J Caring Sci
Tuppal CP.
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ONTOLOGY IN RELATION TO PREVENTIVE MEDICINE [PDF]

American Journal of Public Health, 1912
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Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
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The relational ground of emotion: an Ubuntu-based critique of individualist ontology in theories of emotion. [PDF]

Front Psychol
Sevgican Yardımcı Ş.
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