Believing is Seeing: Integrating cultural and spiritual values in conservation management
Verschuuren, Bas2007
A report that includes recommendations and directives for aiding the integration of cultural and spiritual values into decision-making…
Documentation centre
The Silene Documentation Center contains resources and documents about the spiritual and intangible cultural heritage linked to nature and natural heritage, from the local to the international level. Summaries are offered in four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Catalan, although the documents are in the original languages, accompanied by translations, when available.
It is the reference documentation center of the Group Specialist in Cultural and Spiritual Values of the World Commission for Natural Protected Areas, of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
- Information and sensitization
Tools for information, awareness and reflection on the cultural and spiritual values of nature and landscape in various traditions and worldviews. Pedagogical, didactic and training resources that help integrate spiritual values in the conservation of nature, including myths, tales, and legends. - International declarations
Declarations of spiritual, scientific, political or social authorities in relation to the spiritual values of nature and the need to acknowledge them. - Legal documents
Conventions, treaties, laws, regulations of any administrative, national or international scope. - Management documents
Actions that reinforce the preservation and enjoyment of the values of the intangible heritage of nature, in an integrated way with conservation, in all fields, including the evaluation of their effectiveness. Traditional systems of governance of territories and resources. - Planning documents
Plans and programs aimed at the conservation of nature, protected areas, habitats or species, that incorporate the spiritual and cultural dimensions. - Reflections on nature and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between nature and spirituality, in any of the concepts and the meanings that both may have and in all its manifestations. - Reflections on science and spirituality
Contributions on the relationship between modern science and spirituality, or with the traditional sciences of nature and / or traditional ecological knowledge. - Strategical documents
Guidelines, strategies, recommendations or proposals, from congresses, symposia, seminars, workshops, etc. either international or national - Videographers
Movies, documentaries and interviews - Wisdom quotes
Quotes, aphorisms and advices about Nature from the spiritual Traditions of humankind.
Plan Maestro de la Reserva de Uso Múltiple Cuenca del Lago de Atitlán 2007-2011 (Guatemala)
National Council of Protected Areas, Council for the Development of Sololá, The Nature Conservancy2006
Strategic plan designed by the National Council of Protected Areas and the Council for the Development of Sololá…
Planning of Sacred Natural Sites in Protected Areas, Highlands of Western Guatemala
Secaira, Estuardo; Molina, María Elena2005
The Nature Conservancy has contributed significantly to the development of the methodology and tools to be used in…
Campaign to Protect Rural England
2009
The Foundation Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) was created in 1926 to protect rural landscapes and their…
I percorsi della Via Lauretana: tra memoria dei luoghi antichi e ricostruzione dei mosaici ecopaesaggistici delle marche
Falqui, Enrico & Chiara Serenelli2008
The Via Lauretana in the Italian region of Tuscany is an old pilgrim’s way aiming toward the sanctuary…
Faiths and the Environment – Briefing
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management 2009
This document deals with the relationship between the world’s principal religions and the environment. It describes the different…
Théologie de la nature
Ganoczy, Alexandre1988
This work by Alexandre Canozy (professor of dogmatic theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University…
Culture and wetlands: a Ramsar guidance document
Papayannis, Thymio; Pritchard, Dave (eds.)2008
This document has its origins in Resolutions VIII.19 i IX.21 passed at the Convention on Wetlands in Ramsar…
Meditations of John Muir: Nature’s Temple
Highland, Chris (ed., comp.)2001
Anthology of 60 brief texts about nature written by John Muir with an introduction by the editor. Each…
Religion and the order of nature
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein1996
This work by Seyyed Hossein Nasr represents an ambitious religious and spiritual analysis and reflection on the global…