Une histoire politique de l’environnement ?I : Construire un objet
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The Wilderness Solo Experience: A Unique Practice of Silence and Solitude for Personal Growth
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Silence is now acknowledged by science as a significant construct of healthy human development and well-being, linked to humans’ neurobiology, psychology, physiology, and spirituality. This paper focuses on a particular form of silence experienced through the solo experience in the wilderness. The solo experience, involving varying periods of time ...
A Review of Urologic Conditions in Remote and Austere Environments: Presentation, Evaluation, and Management.
Published in Wilderness & environmental medicine
The objective of this review is to provide recommendations on the evaluation and management of urologic conditions in a resource-poor or austere setting from the perspective of the urological literature. The material was synthesized predominantly from urologic society guidelines and journals to bring additional urology-focused insight to the topic ...
Evaluation of Three Field Rewarming Techniques During Cold Weather Military Training.
Published in Wilderness & environmental medicine
The purpose of this work was to evaluate the effectiveness of 3 rewarming techniques to determine how warfighters, and perhaps other populations in wilderness environments, should prioritize field rewarming options after a brief accidental immersion in cold water. As part of a cold weather military training exercise, 31 military personnel (mean±SD ...
The ecology of human–carnivore coexistence
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
With a shrinking supply of wilderness and growing recognition that top predators can have a profound influence on ecosystems, the persistence of large carnivores in human-dominated landscapes has emerged as one of the greatest conservation challenges of our time. Carnivores fascinate society, yet these animals pose threats to people living near the...
Feeling at Home in the Wilderness: Environmental Conditions, Well-Being and Aesthetic Experience
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Environmental conditions affect one’s aesthetic experience in natural environments. Understanding that effect requires accounting for the conditions affecting one’s attention and experience. Rather than attempt to reduce and control environmental factors, we compare two similar groups during naturally occurring, intense and overwhelming conditions ...
Protected area stewardship in the Anthropocene: integrating science, law, and ethics to evaluate proposals for ecologica...
Every year, the four federal agencies that manage designated wilderness in the United States receive proposals to implement small- and large-scale ecological restorations within the National Wilderness Preservation System. The combination of climate change with other landscape stressors is driving ecological restoration to be one of the single most...
Sivilisasjonen i ødemarken. Om Stina Aronsons kritiske dialog med den litterære sanatoriumstradisjonen i Sång till Polst...
Beatrice M.G. Reed, Department of Language and Literature, Volda University College Civilization in the wilderness: On Stina Aronson’s critical dialogue with the literary sanatorium tradition in Sång till polstjärnan [Song to the North Star] (1948) (Sivilisasjonen i ødemarken. Om Stina Aronsons kritiske dialog med den litterære sanatoriumstradisjon...
La nature est morte ! Mais on a plus que jamais besoin des naturalistes…
Dans la crise écologique que nous traversons, la nature, le naturel, la naturalité sont encore convoqués en tant que référentiels de gestion. Cet article discute du fait qu'avec l'Anthropocène, la nature n'existe plus, au sens où il n'est plus aucun système qui échappe à l'impact de l'humanité. Afin de dépasser la dichotomie trompeuse et stérile hu...
Éthiques animales : la double dissociation
La constitution des éthiques animales depuis le xixe siècle est marquée par une double dissociation : premièrement, entre la militance contre la souffrance animale et la protection de la nature sauvage ; deuxièmement, entre les diverses éthiques animales académiques et les éthiques environnementales. Cette étude montrera comment cette dissociation ...
