Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Nature in Protected Areas

Governance, Management and Policy
Herausgeber: Verschuuren, Bas; Brown, Steve

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Produktbeschreibung

This book demonstrates that to be sustainable, effective and equitable, the management and governance of protected and conserved areas need to be grounded in solid scientific research and practice alongside deeply held cultural, spiritual and aesthetic values and ideas capable of inspiring conservation of biological and cultural diversity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 735g
• ISBN-13: 9781138091184
• ISBN-10: 1138091189
• Artikelnr.: 53607276

Autorenporträt

Bas Verschuuren is a freelance biocultural adviser and associate researcher at the Department of Sociology of Development and Change at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. He combines his experience in conservation projects with applied research on the cultural, spiritual, and sacred dimensions of nature in management and policy. Steve Brown is an honorary associate with the Museum and Heritage Studies Program at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include: conceptualising and operationalising place-attachment in heritage theory and practice; the integration of naturecultures in the heritage management of protected areas; and the material culture of domestic homes and gardens.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Nature in Protected and Conserved
Areas: The 'deeply seated bond' PART I: CONCEPTS 2. Implications of the
Diversity of Concepts and Values of Nature in the Management and Governance
of Protected and Conserved Areas 3. Meaningful Nature Experiences: Pathways
for deepening connections between people and place 4. Mainstream Faith
Participation in Protected and Conserved Areas 5. Spiritual Governance as
an Indigenous Behavioural Practice: Implications for protected and
conserved areas 6. Exploring the Usefulness of Nature/Culture Convergences
in World Heritage: The case of authenticity 7. Buddhism and the Management
of Sacred Sites for Biodiversity 8. The Significance of Indigenous Nature
Spirituality 9. The Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Nature:
Involving the general public in the management and governance of protected
areas PART II: POLICY AND PRACTICE 10. Connecting Practice: Defining new
methods and strategies to further integrate natural and cultural heritage
under the World Heritage Convention 11. Entangled Landscapes: Connecting
conservation practices for naturecultures in the Mongolian Altai 12.
Culture and Nature: The case of the Ramsar Convention on wetlands 13.
Developing Guidelines for Integrating Cultural and Spiritual Values into
the Protected Areas of Spain 14. Managing Religious Pilgrimage to Sacred
Sites in Indian Protected Areas PART III: CASE STUDIES 15. China's
Community Fengshui Forests: Spiritual ecology and nature conservation 16.
Father Forest: Batwa culture and the management of national parks in
Uganda's Albertine Rift 17. Kaio, kapwier, nepek, and nuk: Human and
non-human agency and 'conservation' on Tanna, Vanuatu 18. Exploring
Spiritual and Religious Values in Landscapes of Production: Lessons and
examples from Italy 19. The Nature of Attachment: An Australian experience
20. Reflections on the Situational and Relational Contexts of Nature in
Protected and Conserved Areas