I just ordered this book, The One-Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka. It was published in an English edition in 1978 and is considered influential to various ‘back to nature’ farming and gardening movements.
Fukuoka worked as a research scientist in Japan specializing in plant pathology but he eventually left his career in pursuit of understanding ‘nature’ […]
Filed under: farm, future, natural landscape on September 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I want to make a claim that an outdoor leisure environment, whether it takes the form of a public park, a private beach, or a green backyard, is correlated with a greater degree of understanding and empathy for our natural landscape. Marcelo Bonta writes of his concern about children of minority or heterogeneous race […]
Filed under: future, fostering identity, natural landscape on June 21st, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Read this article from the us forest service on our future leisure environments.
photo credit: Svadilfari
This article predicts “the probabilities of future events associated with natural-resource management, wildland-recreation management, environmental pollution, population-workforce-leisure, and urban environments. Though some of the predictions projected to the year 2050 may sound fantastic now, the authors think that some of […]
Filed under: future, natural landscape, environmental planning on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
This play on words, Scales of Environmental Justice, as introduced to me by Cindi Katz, points to two ways we can think about and study environmental justice.
In GIS research (and others which emphasize horizontal geography) scale can refer to the scale of analysis used in a study and the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of populations […]
Filed under: natural landscape, social justice, environmental planning on June 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
As discussed earlier, psychological ownership can exist in the absence of legal ownership and occurs in an often lengthy and iterative process involving investing the self and making personal sacrifices on behalf of a cave. When an individual’s sense of self is closely linked to the place, a desire to maintain, protect, or enhance that […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 24th, 2008 | No Comments »
In caving, stewardship is an ethic that embodies cooperative planning and management of environmental resources with cave conservancies, communities, individual cavers and caving groups to actively engage in the prevention of cave damage and the promotion of conservation.
Overall, environmental stewardship research tends to focus on it as a relationship between people and objects, and less […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 23rd, 2008 | No Comments »
Commercial cave tours are mostly walk through, dramatically lit and impressive rooms meant to inform visitors of the value in caves. Although caving is not a widely commercial venture it does have a small percentage of “wild cave tours”. These type of tours cost upwards of US$50 a person and are geared towards physically fit […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Meanings are not inherent in the nature of objects. The symbols and meanings that comprise landscapes reflect what people in cultural groups define to be proper and improper relationships among themselves and between themselves and the physical environment. For non-cavers in the United States, symbols and meanings related to caves may arise from Plato’s allegory, […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, natural landscape on April 21st, 2008 | No Comments »
Over the past year I have interviewed and interacted with people who explore caves in the northeastern United States. This grounded theory research originally began with a broad question and a sub-question, respectively: How do cavers think and feel about caving, access to caves and the practice of caving by others? How does the physical […]
Filed under: caves, anthro of property, observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 20th, 2008 | No Comments »
Psychological ownership can be defined as that state where an individual feels as though the object of ownership is ‘theirs’ and has a sense of responsibility not necessarily bounded by legal right or static place (Pierce, Kostova & Dirks, 2001; 2003). Three features help elaborate this definition. First, the sense of ownership manifests itself in […]
Filed under: anthro of property, observations and opinions, natural landscape on April 19th, 2008 | No Comments »
