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Living With Trees – Perspectives From The Suburbs, Lesley M. Head, Pat Muir
Living With Trees – Perspectives From The Suburbs, Lesley M. Head, Pat Muir
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
A study of suburban backyards and backyarders in Sydney and Wollongong revealed evidence of attitudes and behaviours in relation to trees. Attitudes are characterised under themes that indicate conditions of tolerance and belonging. They include attachment/risk, order/freedom and nativeness/alienness. While love is common, high levels of suspicion and intolerance towards trees in the suburban context are more common. Our findings confirm and throw further light on previous work indicating that many Australians have very partitioned views of the world in relationto where humans and nonhuman lifeforms belong. This partitioning must be understood in conceptual as well as spatial terms.
Culture As Concept And Influence In Environmental Research And Management, Lesley M. Head, D. Trigger, J. Mulcock
Culture As Concept And Influence In Environmental Research And Management, Lesley M. Head, D. Trigger, J. Mulcock
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Given that human activities have been implicated in the vast majority of contemporary environmental problems, it might be expected that research effort into those activities and the attitudes from which they stem would be both strongly supported by funding agencies, and of central interest to environmental scientists and land managers. In this paper we focus on an undervalued area of environmental humanities research—cultural analysis of the beliefs, practices and often unarticulated assumptions which underlie human–environmental relations. In discussing how cultural processes are central to environmental attitudes and behaviours, and how qualitative research methods can be used to understand them in …
A New Species Of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) From Nocoleche Nature Reserve, Far Western Plains, New South Wales, Belinda J. Pellow, John L. Potter
A New Species Of Goodenia (Goodeniaceae) From Nocoleche Nature Reserve, Far Western Plains, New South Wales, Belinda J. Pellow, John L. Potter
Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)
Goodenia nocoleche was cultivated in sediment collected from a freshwater temporary wetland in Nocoleche Nature Reserve. Here it is newly described and illustrated with additional notes on its ecology.