Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Nature Studies
Author: George Francis Scott ElliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Studies of Nature
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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The Studies of Nature
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Narrating Nature
Author: Mara Jill GoldmanPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816539677
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The current environmental crises demand that we revisit dominant approaches for understanding nature-society relations. Narrating Nature brings together various ways of knowing nature from differently situated Maasai and conservation practitioners and scientists into lively debate. It speaks to the growing movement within the academy and beyond on decolonizing knowledge about and relationships with nature, and debates within the social sciences on how to work across epistemologies and ontologies. It also speaks to a growing need within conservation studies to find ways to manage nature with people. This book employs different storytelling practices, including a traditional Maasai oral meeting—the enkiguena—to decenter conventional scientific ways of communicating about, knowing, and managing nature. Author Mara J. Goldman draws on more than two decades of deep ethnographic and ecological engagements in the semi-arid rangelands of East Africa—in landscapes inhabited by pastoral and agropastoral Maasai people and heavily utilized by wildlife. These iconic landscapes have continuously been subjected to boundary drawing practices by outsiders, separating out places for people (villages) from places for nature (protected areas). Narrating Nature follows the resulting boundary crossings that regularly occur—of people, wildlife, and knowledge—to expose them not as transgressions but as opportunities to complicate the categories themselves and create ontological openings for knowing and being with nature otherwise. Narrating Nature opens up dialogue that counters traditional conservation narratives by providing space for local Maasai inhabitants to share their ways of knowing and being with nature. It moves beyond standard community conservation narratives that see local people as beneficiaries or contributors to conservation, to demonstrate how they are essential knowledgeable members of the conservation landscape itself.
Studies in Seeds and Fruits
Author: Henry Brougham GuppyPublisher:
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Category : Fruit
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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The Nature of Fear
Author: Daniel T. BlumsteinPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674916484
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
A leading expert in animal behavior takes us into the wild to better understand and manage our fears. Fear, honed by millions of years of natural selection, kept our ancestors alive. Whether by slithering away, curling up in a ball, or standing still in the presence of a predator, humans and other animals have evolved complex behaviors in order to survive the hazards the world presents. But, despite our evolutionary endurance, we still have much to learn about how to manage our response to danger. For more than thirty years, Daniel Blumstein has been studying animals’ fear responses. His observations lead to a firm conclusion: fear preserves security, but at great cost. A foraging flock of birds expends valuable energy by quickly taking flight when a raptor appears. And though the birds might successfully escape, they leave their food source behind. Giant clams protect their valuable tissue by retracting their mantles and closing their shells when a shadow passes overhead, but then they are unable to photosynthesize, losing the capacity to grow. Among humans, fear is often an understandable and justifiable response to sources of threat, but it can exact a high toll on health and productivity. Delving into the evolutionary origins and ecological contexts of fear across species, The Nature of Fear considers what we can learn from our fellow animals—from successes and failures. By observing how animals leverage alarm to their advantage, we can develop new strategies for facing risks without panic.
Studies of nature
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Studies of Nature, translated by H. Hunter
Author: Jacques Henri Bernardin de SAINT PIERREPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Studies of Nature (Volume 3).
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages :
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St. Pierre's Studies of Nature
Author: Bernardin de Saint-PierrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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