A5031460052- Religion, Ecology, and Ethics
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
- Evolution and Science Education
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Educational Tools and Methods
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Geographic Information Systems Studies
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Critical Realism in Sociology
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Information Society and Technology Trends
- Learning Styles and Cognitive Differences
- Social Science and Policy Research
Lewis & Clark College
2006-2023
Colorado School of Mines
2018
University of California, Santa Barbara
1995-2017
Visions
2017
University of Hull
2008
University of Stirling
2000
University of California System
1998
University of California, Berkeley
1990
Abstract A recent opinion piece rekindled debate as to whether geography's current interdisciplinary make‐up is a historical relic or an actual and potential source of intellectual vitality. Taking the latter position, we argue here for benefits sustained integration physical critical human geography. For reasons both political pragmatic, term this area intermingled research practice geography (CPG). CPG combines attention power relations with deep knowledge biophysical science technology in...
Abstract Is GIS a tool or science? The question is clearly important in the day-to-day operations of geography departments. Departments need to know if that should be taught at undergraduate level, science and thus legitimate research specialty faculty graduate students. We summarize debate on this was conducted GIS-L electronic listserver late 1993. In evaluating discussion it became clear could understood not by two distinct positions taken discussants but as three along continuum ranging...
Abstract Social constructivists argue that what we call "nature" isfar less universal and extrahuman than generally assumed. Yet this argument has been vigorously attacked by some natural scientists other scholars due to they perceive as its dangerous flirtation with relativism. I introduce debate reference a recent controversy over the concept of wilderness, an important icon nature in North America. then define several forms relativism, compare two contemporary bodies thought are broad...
Summary Geographers have become increasingly interested in questions of ethics. In this paper, I introduce the scope and major concerns ethics, briefly reviewing recent literature as a means situating geography's potential contribution. then link ethics to geographical imagination by developing twofold schema representing ontological project epistemological process, an approach that unites existing professional substantive ethical among geographers. Examples work geographers these areas are...
Abstract Though religion appears to play a prominent role in the contemporary political and cultural landscape of United States elsewhere, relatively few geographers are contributing toward better appreciation this phenomenon. A 2001 review field countered earlier charges incoherence by noting particular strengths geographic research on religion, more recent publications have appeared, but overall picture has not yet matched strong wave media treatment popular interest religion. basic...
Complexity has recently risen to prominence in ecology as part of a broader interest that suggests its status is something more than just scientific theory or property reality. It may be helpful consider complexity, and related terms such "self-organization," recent metaphors deployed advance knowledge on fundamental questions ecology, including the relationship between parts wholes, order disorder. Though not commonly viewed such, are an indispensable component science, should appraised...
Abstract Far from being a universal feature of culture, the concept religion has distinctly western origins. What, then, is religion, and how shall it be empirically studied? I suggest, as one many possible alternatives, an etymologically-based approach to understood trust in sources epistemic moral authority. Four authorities are considered, including institutional science, nature, state. present results survey-based empirical inquiry U.S. adults, enriched by means follow-up interviews...
As a diverse and divided discipline, geography embodies tensions central to the para doxical nature of human dwelling on earth, from which questions environmental ethics arise. The article reviews major ontological epistemological within – that between culture, objectivism subjectivism emphasizing ways in common resolutions these often represent flawed strategies avoiding paradox. It then connects important philosophical dimensions ethics. I argue normative must be built an adequate...
Abstract This article describes how an experimental geography seminar utilized Internet communication tools in conjunction with constructivist strategies to actively engage geographically distant students the process of collaborative inquiry and comparative analysis. Review evidence suggests that application construc-tivist-inspired teaching learning together served facilitate a dynamic However, both con-structivist-based integration require considerable time, effort, resources may deter...
Recent efforts to protect biodiversity in the United States often reproduce literal and figurative divisions of space that have originally endangered target species. Nature as redefined by these is much a social construction it some biophysical entity under siege humans, We focus on categorical spatial distinctions between landscapes prioritized for protection given less priority or ignored altogether. These distinctions, we wish demonstrate, reflect pragmatic considerations habitat quality...
Abstract Quantitative proof that multimedia enrichment activities are a positive benefit to lower‐division undergraduate geography is an alluring though elusive goal. The results presented of careful experimental evaluation two computer modules used as devices for introductory human course at the University California, Santa Barbara. objectives were determine their overall effectiveness, well kinds students and geographical knowledge skills they best served. rather disappointing in respect...
We welcome the commentary by John Pickles on our efforts in Wright et al. (this issue) to reflect and turn stimulate a wider debate about epistemological assumptions, or lack thereof, of GIS need for theory that transcends technical. How indeed did it take field thirty years begin asking fundamental questions its own practice, commitments intellectual as well practical? It is interesting note two three authors Forum essay received their Ph.Ds 1990s. They represent “the new generation”...