Essays about: "Human-environmental relations"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Human-environmental relations.
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1. Changing everyday waste sorting practices : a qualitative study of the relation between organisational strategic communication and everyday waste sorting practices in Sweden
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : All EU member states are supposed to meet the EU goals for material recycling of consumer packaging waste. Despite having established systems for collection of packaging waste and recycling processes, Sweden has not been able to reach these goals. READ MORE
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2. Incorporating local, and placed-based knowledge in resource management: An anthropological study of coral reef entanglements in Costa Rica
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierAbstract : The purpose of this study is to better understand how different local actors in Arenas1 on the Talamancan coast in Costa Rica can work together and contribute to forms of more sustainable resource management. The study shows that local actors understand sustainable development as the restoration of relationships to the coral reefs. READ MORE
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3. Environmental Conservation Conflicts in Swedish Sapmi: Sami Ethnoecology and the Struggle for an Indigenous Conservation Paradigm
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : Given a backdrop of industrial land use fractures in Northern Sweden, the kind of human-environmental relations cultivated in Sapmi has consequences for Sami indigenous sovereignty and ecological sustainability. Critically investigating different nature relations is of significance to Human Ecology fields in order to deepen knowledge on both unintended and intended consequences of how we understand and engage with environments. READ MORE
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4. Living Pono: A Case of School Gardens on the Big Island of Hawai‘i
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : In this investigation, based on fieldwork during a five-month period, the impacts on school gardens on students’ relationships with food and the environment on the Big Island in Hawai‘i are explored. The focus is on the effects of garden based learning on student’s understanding and attitudes towards food and their local environments as well as how it encourages the Hawaiian concept of living pono or living righteously. READ MORE
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5. Attracting and banning Ankari: Musical and Climate Change in the Kallawaya Region in Northern Bolivia
University essay from Lunds universitet/HumanekologiAbstract : In the Kallawaya region in the Northern Bolivian Andes musical practices are closely related to the social, natural and spiritual environment: This is evident during the process of constructing and tuning instruments, but also during activities in the agrarian cycle, collective ritual and healing practices, as means of communication with the ancestors and, based on a Kallawaya perspective, during the critical involvement in influencing local weather events. In order to understand the complexity of climate change in the Kallawaya region beyond Western ontological principles the latter is of great importance. READ MORE
