“The Firmament Sheweth His Handiwork”. Re-awakening a Religious Sense of the Natural Order
Oldmeadow, Harry2003
This document describes the general principles on which the traditional religious vision of the natural world and humankind’s…
Worldview
Our Ancestral View of Territory
Villafaña, Amado (ed.)2009
Photographs from an exhibition in the Colombian Embassy in Paris in March 2010. This was the first exhibition…
How protection took the beauty from the land; conflicting values and meanings of Lake Mburo National Park, Uganda
Infield, Mark; Duli, Eunice Mahoro; Mugisha, Arthur R.; Rubagyema, Patrick2008
Uganda’s Lake Mburo National Park protects the last remaining unenclosed rangeland known historically to the Banyankole Bahima pastoralists…
Daoism and Ecology: Ways within a Cosmic Landscape
Girardot, N.J.; Miller, James; Xiagan, Liu (eds.)2001
First collective work dealing in depth with the Taoist tradition and its contribution to the solution of current…
Indigenous Traditions and Ecology: The Interbeing of Cosmology and Community
Grim, John A. (ed.)2001
A collective work containing studies on indigenous communities whose sovereignty and ways of life are threatened by the…
Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientific Belief
Smith, Wolfgang1984
The author of this document is a well-known physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science, and in this work…
Recognition of the diversity of concepts and values of nature
International Union for the Conservation of Nature2008
This resolution requests the Director General of IUCN to promote the understanding of nature conservation as a human…
An overview of cultural and spiritual values in ecosystem management and conservation strategies
Verschuuren, Bas2006
This article aims to increase awareness of the importance of cultural perceptions within natural ecosystems and landscapes as…
Esencia – Cosmovisión Andina
Pfuture Consa, Evaristo2008
The Andean cosmovision is the ancestral philosophy of life of the Incas. From a geographical point of view,…
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…