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Record Nr.

UNINA9910627293103321

Autore

La Page Will

Titolo

Rethinking park protection : treading the uncommon ground of environmental beliefs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : CABI, 2012

ISBN

1-78064-000-5

Disciplina

333.78/3

Soggetti

National parks and reserves - Conservation and restoration

National parks and reserves - Management

Parks - Conservation and restoration

Parks - Management

Environmental policy - Philosophy

Environmental protection - Social aspects

Environmental protection - Political aspects

Belief and doubt

Art, Architecture & Applied Arts

Gardens, Landscape Architecture & Parks

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Foreword: A call to action -- pt. 1. Tending Parks in a Field of Competing Beliefs -- The Ecology of Belief : It's all in the Connections -- The Power of Belief : The Real Limits of Preservation -- The Energy and Dynamics of Belief -- Norms, Ethics, and Beliefs in Parks -- Organizational Beliefs : From Visionary to Functionary -- Beliefs as Values, Possessions, and Lenses -- pt. 2. Cutting through the Tangled Roots of Belief -- Credibility, Authenticity, Believability, and Park Maintenance -- Patterns of Thinking, Structures of Believing -- The Nesting Habits of Beliefs and the Belief Tree -- The Symbolism of Beliefs : Signs, Symbols, Icons, and Omens -- This I Believe : Discovering Your Belief System -- Belief Bites : Truisms, Metaphors, Aphorisms, Wisdom of the Ages -- Beliefs as Environmental Super Highways and Roadblocks -- pt. 3. Cultivating the Wide World of



Supporting Beliefs -- Belief-Based Science and Research Methods -- From Beliefs to Science and Back Again -- Politics of Belief : Park Wildlife as a Case Study -- Parks as Spiritual, Sacred, and Religious Beliefs -- Toward Environmental Sanity through the Ecology of Belief -- Parks as Belief : Making Peace with Paradox -- Afterword: The Human Need Maslow Rejected : The Need to Believe.