Published in Biodiversity & Conservation
Areas set apart for nature conservation in Britain are broadly categorised according to their cultural purpose, and names are assigned to these in this paper. Nature reserves may be similar to zoos and botanic gardens in aiming to maintain the diversity of species and if so are termed ‘biodiversity reserves’. This tradition understands nature as a ...
Stedelijke ruigte heeft weinig te maken met ecologisch groenbeheer, betoogt Arie Koster. Aan veel ruigten liggen bezuinigingen, onvermogen of een gebrekkig vakmanschap ten grondslag. De vaste planten op de floriade 2002, waaronder ruigtekruidenvegetaties, werden hoog gewaardeerd
Wilgenstruwelen langs kleine rivieren brengen een ongebreideld waterregime tot expressie en hiermee komen planten van allerlei ecologische preferenties bijeen
Published in Journal of Biosciences
Classic ecological restoration seems tacitly to have taken the Clementsian “balance of nature” paradigm for granted: plant succession terminates in a climax community which remains at equilibrium until exogenously disturbed after which the process of succession is restarted until the climax is reached. Human disturbance is regarded as unnatural and...
Published in GeoJournal
Rather than creating unproblematic ‘natural’ spaces, the definition of boundaries within protected areas formally reifies the modernist duality of nature and culture, leading to practical management conflicts between protected area managers. The current conception of protected area boundaries is the result of the historical construction of nature a...
Published in Population and Environment
This research analyzes the relationship between protected federal lands (wilderness, national parks, national monuments and roadless areas) and nearby communities in the rural western United States. Opponents of environmental protection claim that protected lands limit the growth of nearby communities by locking up potentially valuable natural reso...
This seminar provides a historical overview of the interactions between people and their environments. Focusing primarily on the experience of Europeans in the period after Columbus, the subject explores the influence of nature (climate, topography, plants, animals, and microorganisms) on human history and the reciprocal influence of people on natu...
Published in Environmentalist
The recent two cases related to seals in Japan illustrate the nature of the “values” created for animals in today’s societies: one that appeared in a river in Tokyo and gained a national pop star fame, the other supposedly extinct Japanese seal re-gaining an endangered status. This paper argues that the contrast of these cases exemplifies the image...
Published in Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
The Netherlands is a small country with many people and much livestock. As a result, animals in nature reservations are often living near cattle farms. Therefore, people from the agricultural practices are afraid that wild animals will infect domestic livestock with diseases like Swine Fever and Foot and Mouth Disease. To protect agriculture (consi...
Subject considers how the visual and material world of "nature" has been reshaped by industrial practices, beliefs, structures, and activities. Readings in historical geography, aesthetics, American history, environmental and ecological history, architecture, city planning, and landscape studies. Several field trips planned to visit local industria...
