The Common Ground: a Place for Nature Conservation in Britain's Future? by Richard Mabey. Hutchinson, Nature Conservancy Council, £8.95.
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This article is published in Oryx.The article was published on 1980-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5 citations till now.read more
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Values-led conservation
Paul Jepson,Susan M. Canney +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that value arguments based on science and economic rationalism increasingly overshadow the aesthetic and ethical arguments that originally inspired the conservation movement, and that this trend risks removing conservation from the public realm, in part because it facilitates the adoption by nongovernment conservation bodies of corporate values and/or their integration with government bureaucracies.
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Landscape, race and memory: biographical mapping of the routes of British Asian landscape values
TL;DR: In this article, the migration routes of British Asian women living in London are examined and it is shown that British Asians connect with a myriad of landscapes abroad, including East Africa, India and Pakistan These connections to past landscapes are mapped and considered here as valued environments of British Asians in Britain through the mapping of their biographies, it is apparent that memories of other landscapes are embedded in environmental practices in Britain, therefore contributing to making the landscape in Britain inclusive and meaningful in the context of South Asian migration.
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Womb, Belly and Landscape in the Anthropocene
TL;DR: The poet William Cowper, enraptured by the beauty of the English countryside, wrote “God made the country and man made the town” as mentioned in this paper, and the poem was later translated into English.
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Rationales for Conservation
TL;DR: The Oxford English Dictionary gives two definitions of the word "rationale" as mentioned in this paper : "a reasoned explanation of principles, an explanation or statement of reasons, a set of reasoned rules or directions" and "a fundamental reason, the logical or rational basis of anything".
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Multispecies Work in John Clare’s ‘Birds Nesting’ Poems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that birds and other wild animals emerge as a fugitive commons that endures even after the enclosure of common land, and that work can aspire towards creating multispecies refugia that allow some degree of mutual thriving.