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Mindfulness and Nature.
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ISBN: 9798887701417 Year: 2024 Publisher: Rochester : Mayo Foundation for Medical Education & Research,

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Loving nature : towards an ecology of emotion
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ISBN: 0415253543 0415253535 1134525397 1280403187 0585459274 0203421418 9780203421413 9780585459271 9780415253536 9780415253543 9781280403187 9786610403189 661040318X 9781134525393 9781134525348 9781134525386 1134525389 Year: 2006 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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As the full effects of human activity on Earth's life-support systems are revealed by science, the question of whether we can change, fundamentally, our relationship with nature becomes increasingly urgent. Just as important as an understanding of our environment, is an understanding of ourselves, of the kinds of beings we are and why we act as we do. In Loving Nature Kay Milton considers why some people in western societies grow up to be nature lovers, actively concerned about the welfare and future of plants, animals, ecosystems and nature in general, while others seem indifferent or intent on destroying these things. Drawing on findings and ideas from anthropology, psychology, cognitive science and philosophy, the author discusses how we come to understand nature as we do, and above all, how we develop emotional commitments to it. Anthropologists, in recent years, have tended to suggest that our understanding of the world is shaped solely by the culture in which we live. Controversially Kay Milton argues that it is shaped by direct experience in which emotion plays an essential role. The author argues that the conventional opposition between emotion and rationality in western culture is a myth. The effect of this myth has been to support a market economy which systematically destroys nature, and to exclude from public decision making the kinds of emotional attachments that support more environmentally sensative ways of living. A better understanding of ourselves, as fundamentally emotional beings, could give such ways of living the respect they need.


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Last Child in the Woods : Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
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ISBN: 1848877498 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York : Atlantic Books Ltd,

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This huge international bestseller, fully revised for non-American readers, is now in ebook. Last Child in the Woods shows how our children have become increasingly alienated and distant from nature, why this matters, and what we can do to make a difference. It is unsentimental, rigorous and utterly original. 'A cri de coeur for our children' Guardian Camping in the garden, riding bikes through the woods, climbing trees, collecting bugs, picking wildflowers, running through piles of autumn leaves... These are the things childhood memories are made of. But for a whole generation of t


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The voice of the earth
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ISBN: 0671729683 Year: 1992 Publisher: New York London Toronto Simon & Schuster

The human relationship with nature : development and culture
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ISBN: 0262611708 026211240X 9780262112406 0262276666 0585076529 9780585076522 9780262611701 9780262276665 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London MIT Press

Bienfaisante nature
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ISBN: 2020585081 9782020585088 Year: 2003 Publisher: Paris : Seuil,

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Restaurer le lien entre l'homme et la nature pour guérir les maux engendrés par la civilisation urbaine et industrielle : thème récurrent depuis le siècle dernier, et qui trouve aujourd'hui un nouvel essor. Un vigoureux militantisme associatif se réclame de l'unité du vivant, de la solidarité de destin entre les hommes, les animaux et les plantes, et entend sur ces bases requalifier l'ensemble du cadre de vie.


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Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment : The Experience of Nature
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ISBN: 1461496187 1461496195 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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A significant step in the evolution of ecopsychology has been the field’s growing awareness of its long-standing affinity with phenomenology. Now, at a time when the natural world is viewed as somewhere between threatening, threatened, and invisible, an examination of the often implicit bond between these two spheres of inquiry makes increasing sense.  Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment: The Experience of Nature explores the intersection of the two disciplines through a diverse group of ecological thinkers. Emphasizing the directly felt experience of the wild as opposed to overtly scientific approaches, this evocative volume presents fresh perspectives on the intimacy of nature, environmentally-related morals and ethics, and the realities engendered by climate change. With profound vision and lyrical elegance, contributors reveal the transformative power of the natural world and its expansive effects on our senses and consciousness. And perhaps most notably, these chapters challenge us as humans to revise how we understand ourselves in relation to the rest of nature.  Included in the coverage: The naturalist’s presence: toward a relational phenomenology of attention and meaning. Aliveness and transformation in wilderness. Apocalyptic imagination and the silence of the elements. The who of environmental ethics: phenomenology and the moral self. Climate chaos, ecopsychology, and the maturing human being. Unhumanizing phenomenology to decode the language of Earth. Ecopsychology, Phenomenology, and the Environment: The Experience of Nature will find an engaged audience among ecopsychologists, environmental and conservation psychologists, and other psychologists and psychotherapists interested in environmental issues, as well as phenomenological psychologists. It will also appeal to environmental researchers working with psychological or phenomenological perspectives and philosophers concerned with environmental issues and ethics.

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