A collection of essays explores the impact of indigenous cultures with stable communities on the conservation of biological diversity in natural habitats.
Ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan provides 26 essays that go beyond mere observations of wildlife but offer theories of links between cultural and biological diversity. He champions a shift away from the preservation efforts of the mainstream environmental movement, rejecting the separateness of ecological preserves that exclude humans. Nabhan argues that biodviersity thrives best in the presence of an involved, participatory culture, and his argument is bolstered by research and years of field experiecne.
By:
Gary Paul Nabhan
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 24mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781887178969
ISBN 10: 1887178961
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 16 September 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Prologue: Cultures of Habitat; Finding Ourselves in the Far Outside; Pledging Allegiance to All Sorts of Diversity; Missing the Boat: Why Cultural Diversity Didnt Make It onto the Ark; Sierra Madre Upshot: Ecological and Agricultural Health; Children in Touch, Creatures in Story; Making Places Close to Home Where the Soul Can Fly; Growing Up Othered: An Arab-American Childhood; Behind the Zipper: Discovering the Diversity around Us; Finding the Wild Thread: The Evolution of a Naturalist; Hummingbirds and Human Aggression; Searching for Lost Places; Cultural Parallax: The Wilderness Concept in Crisis; When the Spring of Animal Dreams Runs Dry; Killer, Fire, and the Aboriginal Way; Diabetes, Diet, and Native American Foraging Traditions; Let Us Now Praise Native Crops: An American Cornucopia; Harvest Time: Agricultural Change on the Northern Plains; Tequila Hangovers and the Mescal Monoculture Blues; Hornworms Home Ground: Conserving Interactions; The Parable of the Poppy and the Bee; The Pollinator and the Predator: Conservation That Zoos Cant Do; Why Chiles Are Hot: Seed Dispersal and Plant Survival; Where Creatures and Cultures Know No Boundaries; Showdown in the Rain Forest; Epilogue: Restorying the Sonorous Landscape.
Gary Paul Nabhan is an Agricultural Ecologist, Ethnobotanist, Ecumenical Franciscan Brother, and author whose work has focused primarily on the interaction of biodiversity and cultural diversity of the arid binational Southwest. He is considered a pioneer in the local food movement and the heirloom seed saving movement.
