Changing Perceptions of Nature

Herausgeber: Convery, Ian; Davis, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

Essays investigating the idea of natural heritage and the ways in which it has changed over time.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 170mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 930g
• ISBN-13: 9781783271054
• ISBN-10: 1783271051
• Artikelnr.: 44165822

Autorenporträt

Ian Convery, Peter Davis

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Martin Holdgate Introduction - Ian Convery and Peter Davis 'The
Nomination of the Visible': William Turner's Practice of Natural History -
Marie Addyman Early European Perceptions of the Nature of Australia -
Charles Nelson Conserving Natural Heritage: Shifting Positions of Culture
and Nature - Darrell Smith and Ian Convery and Andrew Ramsey and Viktor
Kouloumpis Three Birds of a Feather - Darwin, Wallace and Attenborough: An
Unbroken Tradition of Finding Where the Wild Things Are - Richard Milner
Organising, Naming and Ordering Nature - Gina Douglas Our 'Great Entail':
Constructing the Cultural Value of the Lake District - Penny Bradshaw
Renaissance Collecting and Understanding of the Natural World - Arthur
MacGregor Botanical Collecting, Herbaria and the Understanding of Nature -
Chiara Nepi Taxidermy and the Representation of Nature - Hannah Paddon The
Significance of Natural History Collections in the 21st Century - Stephen
Hewitt Changed Attitudes to Nature Reflected in the Transformation of
Menageries to Zoos - Gordon McGregor Reid Interpretation in Botanic Gardens
- Ghillean T. Prance and Peter Davis Shifting Interpretations of the
English Lake District - Christopher Donaldson Facebook Nature: My
Generation and Other Animals - Lucy McRobert Visual Narratives in Wildlife
Film-making - Sophie Darlington A History of Half a Century of Wildlife
Television and its Impact on Audiences - Keith Scholey Landscape, Nature
and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated Children's Literature - Paul A.
Roncken Landscape, Nature and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated
Children's Literature - Ian Convery The Public Perception of Protected
Areas in the UK - Angus Lunn Conservation of Rare Species and Natural
Heritage: the Wild and the Tame - Juliet Clutton-Brock Our Vanishing
Natural Heritage and The Wildlife Trusts: a Century of Influence and Local
Action for Nature and People - Tim Sands Our Vanishing Natural Heritage and
The Wildlife Trusts: a Century of Influence and Local Action for Nature and
People - Robert Lambert A Champion of the Tiger's Cause - James Champion
Adventure, Nature and Commodification - Heather Prince and Chris Loynes
Destination Nature: Wildlife and the Rise of Domestic Ecotourism in
Britain, 1880-2015 - Robert Lambert Wild Places as Therapeutic Environments
- Julie Taylor Citizen Science and the Perception of Nature - Ian Convery
and Sarah Elmeligi and Samantha Finn and Owen Nevin Using Community-based
Cultural Tourism to Enhance Nature Conservation in the Rupununi, Guyana -
Jared Bowers Representing Natural Heritage in Digital Space: from the
National Museum of Natural History to Inuvialuit Living History - Kate
Hennessy Using Community-based Cultural Tourism to Enhance Nature
Conservation in the Rupununi, Guyana - Natasha Lyons Out of the Wild Wood
and into our Beds: the Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural
Selection of Deadly Cuteness - Mike Jeffries Rewilding: the Realisation and
Reality of a New Challenge for Nature in the 21st Century - Erwin van van
Maanen Rewilding: the Realisation and Reality of a New Challenge for Nature
in the 21st Century - Ian Convery