peer reviewed / Comme l’avait souligné Pierre Schoentjes en 2015 dans son Essai d’écopoétique, l’ecocriticism, ou « l’étude de la littérature dans ses rapports avec l’environnement naturel », tire ses racines aux États-Unis, là où le peuple Américain profitait déjà d’une abondance d’œuvres de nature writing et d’un paysage naturel éblouissant qui a...
Published in Ecology letters
Protected areas are highly heterogeneous in their effectiveness at buffering human pressure, which may hamper their ability to conserve species highly sensitive to human activities. Here, we use 60 million bird observations from eBird to estimate the sensitivity to human pressure of each bird species breeding in the Americas. Concerningly, we find ...
Published in Laeknabladid
In Iceland, wilderness search and rescue services are provided by volunteer members of the Icelandic association for search and rescue (ICE-SAR). The rescue teams respond to about 1200 calls every year, with a significant proportion of them involving injured and sick individuals. No previous studies have been done on the service provided by ICE-SAR...
peer reviewed / Alaska is a world apart, America’s “last frontier”, which offers a challenging and awe-inspiring wilderness experience (Nash 2014). While its nature illustrates the horrid features of the Burkean sublime, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and air traffic show the presence of technology in a state that has been perceived as “pure” and “prist...
peer reviewed / As “America's last frontier”, Alaska provides an opportunity to revisit the pioneer past in a challenging and awe-inspiring landscape (Nash 2014). While the Alaskan nature illustrates the inhospitable and terrifying features of the Burkean sublime, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and air traffic exemplify the presence of technology in a s...
Cave Adventure is a interactive exploration game where you play as a member in a group of friends exploring a cave system for the first time. Based on your choices and paths you take, you can end up having wildly differing adventures had you taken another path. The overall goal of the game is for the player to have autonomy in their choices, as muc...
International audience
In this paper I argue that aesthetic appreciation of nature should be reflective and based on respect for nature. I believe first-hand experience is crucial and that nature can be aesthetically experienced freely in a multi-sensory way. Aesthetic experience will bring attention to features of the environment which the subject needs to reflect on an...
This study investigates outdoor educators’ spiritual experiences in wilderness from a retrospective point of view. The aim is to understand their meaning-making and the role of such experiences in their life and career as well as to draw out possible implications for outdoor education (OE) with special regards to a sustainable future of our planet....
Ces dernières années ont vu se développer de manière exponentielle les travaux sur la frontière entre l’homme et l’animal, vieille question désormais soumise au prisme du posthumanisme. Métaphysique, cette frontière est également matérielle, car toute frontière suppose une appropriation humaine de l’espace. Or que se passe-t-il quand c’est l’animal...
