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Köp båda 2 för 1513 krAn extremely rich source of viewpoints and explorations of what nature means. * ARCHIVES OF NATURAL HISTORY * Many chapters provide only an introduction and/or a tantalizing taste of the subject, but all have extensive bibliographies. Topics range from the perceptions of explorers and naturalists, the development of scientific collections and taxidermy, individual areas and locations, and nature in art and film to nature deficit disorder, social media, ecotourism, citizen science, and teddy bears. [...] This work is mainly recommended for collections with a focus on the history and/or philosophy of science, nature, or environmentalism. * CHOICE *
Ian Convery is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a director of the Lifescapes Project conservation charity. Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability. DR ARTHUR MACGREGOR, LVO is an Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute, UK. Erwin van Maanen of EcoNatura is a (conservation) biologist, with a specific interest in mammalian carnivore ecology. Ian Convery is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a director of the Lifescapes Project conservation charity. MARIE ADDYMAN is an independent scholar whose writing and teaching reflects the interdisciplinary approach which is fundamental to her practice. While guest-lecturing on English literature and women's studies at various English universities, she has taught literature, history, and history of medicine for the Open University. Owen T. Nevin is Chief Executive Officer of the Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI), Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology at CQUniversity Australia and Anniversary Visiting Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cumbria Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability.
Foreword - Martin Holdgate Introduction - Ian Convery and Peter Davis 'The Nomination of the Visible': William Turner's Practice of Natural History - Marie Addyman Early European Perceptions of the Nature of Australia - Charles Nelson Conserving Natural Heritage: Shifting Positions of Culture and Nature - Darrell Smith and Ian Convery and Andrew Ramsey and Viktor Kouloumpis Three Birds of a Feather - Darwin, Wallace and Attenborough: An Unbroken Tradition of Finding Where the Wild Things Are - Richard Milner Organising, Naming and Ordering Nature - Gina Douglas Our 'Great Entail': Constructing the Cultural Value of the Lake District - Penny Bradshaw Renaissance Collecting and Understanding of the Natural World - Arthur MacGregor Botanical Collecting, Herbaria and the Understanding of Nature - Chiara Nepi Taxidermy and the Representation of Nature - Hannah Paddon The Significance of Natural History Collections in the 21st Century - Stephen Hewitt Changed Attitudes to Nature Reflected in the Transformation of Menageries to Zoos - Gordon McGregor Reid Interpretation in Botanic Gardens - Ghillean T. Prance and Peter Davis Shifting Interpretations of the English Lake District - Christopher Donaldson Facebook Nature: My Generation and Other Animals - Lucy McRobert Visual Narratives in Wildlife Film-making - Sophie Darlington A History of Half a Century of Wildlife Television and its Impact on Audiences - Keith Scholey Landscape, Nature and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated Children's Literature - Paul A. Roncken Landscape, Nature and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated Children's Literature - Ian Convery The Public Perception of Protected Areas in the UK - Angus Lunn Conservation of Rare Species and Natural Heritage: the Wild and the Tame - Juliet Clutton-Brock Our Vanishing Natural Heritage and The Wildlife Trusts: a Century of Influence and Local Action for Nature and People - Tim Sands Our Vanishing Natural Heritage and The Wildlife Trusts: a Century of Influence and Local Action for Nature and People - Robert Lambert A Champion of the Tiger's Cause - James Champion Adventure, Nature and Commodification - Heather Prince and Chris Loynes Destination Nature: Wildlife and the Rise of Domestic Ecotourism in Britain, 1880-2015 - Robert Lambert Wild Places as Therapeutic Environments - Julie Taylor Citizen Science and the Perception of Nature - Ian Convery and Sarah Elmeligi and Samantha Finn and Owen Nevin Using Community-based Cultural Tourism to Enhance Nature Conservation in the Rupununi, Guyana - Jared Bowers Representing Natural Heritage in Digital Space: from the National Museum of Natural History to Inuvialuit Living History - Kate Hennessy Using Community-based Cultural Tourism to Enhance Nature Conservation in the Rupununi, Guyana - Natasha Lyons Out of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: the Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness - Mike Jeffries Rewilding: the Realisation and Reality of a New Challenge for Nature in the 21st Century - Erwin van van Maanen Rewilding: the Realisation and Reality of a New Challenge for Nature in the 21st Century - Ian Convery