Sökning: "human-environmental relations"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden human-environmental relations.
1. Tourism, Ecosystem Functions, and Human-Environmental Relations
Sammanfattning : The thesis aims at deconstructing the sustainable tourism paradigm: can tourism be "a global strategy for sustainable development", as the tourist industry claims? And will developing countries in particular profit from tourism development?To most international organizations and institutions (from the World Wide Fund for Nature to The World Bank), tourism, if carefully managed, is a positive, sustainable development tool. However, the research presented in this thesis exposes this view as unrealistically optimistic for at least three reasons: first of all, global environmental change caused by tourism has never been investigated and integrated with the discourse on sustainable tourism development. LÄS MER
2. The Lure of Origins : An Inquiry into Human-Environmental Relations, Focused on the ”Neolithization” of Sweden
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the discussion of the deeper meaning, in our contemporary context, of the ”neolithization” of Sweden. The basis for the investigation is twofold: * a critical examination of recent research reports dealing mostly with the Early Neolithic of (Middle) Sweden which shows, inter alia, that ”agriculture” was of marginal importance for a very long time from about 4000 BC onwards, while, at the same time, the idea of ”the transition to farming” dominates discourse. LÄS MER
3. The rhythm of rock art animals : Picturing reindeer, elk and bear around the seasonal cycle in Stone Age Alta
Sammanfattning : The Stone Age rock art of Fennoscandia is dominated by pictures of animals. Yet it is its role in the social and cognitive processes within human society that has been the major focus for research. In the thesis, rock art is explored in the lives of people as being part of a larger ecological community. LÄS MER
4. A Landscape of Left-Overs : Changing Conceptions of Place and Environment among Mi'kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada
Sammanfattning : This dissertation seeks to explore historical changes in the lifeworld of the Mi’kmaq Indians of Eastern Canada. The Mi’kmaq culture hero Kluskap here serves as a key persona in discussing issues such as traditions, changing conceptions of land, and human-environmental relations. LÄS MER
5. När floden märkte marken : Om bruket av översvämningsmark längs med Emån och Ätran 1500–1910
Sammanfattning : Large landscape transformations were an integral part of the agricultural revolution in Sweden, starting during the late 18th century. The 19th century was an especially intensive century when it comes to the transformation of the cultural landscape, not the least marked by extensive changes in the use of agricultural wetlands with interventions in watercourses, lowering of lakes and wetland reclamation. LÄS MER