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Life and the Nature of Life-in Parks Chapter 9 9. Aesthetic Values and Protected Areas: A Story of Symbol Preservation Chapter 10 National Parks versus Protected Landscapes?
Tangible and Intangible Values Chapter 15 Towards Linking the Tangible and the Intangible Chapter 16 Lessons from South Asia Chapter 17 The Russian System of Zapovedniks Chapter 18 Protected Landscapes in the Andean Context: Worshipping the Sacred in Nature and Culture Chapter 19 Managing Conflicting Values Chapter 20 Wilderness as Contested Ground Chapter 21 Battling Religions in Parks and Forest Reserves: Intangible Values and Protected Areas: Towards a More Holistic Approach to Management. Despite the genocides entific revolution that took place in Europe in the suffered by indigenous populations, the world pro- The imposition of positivist and materialist ap- seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the effect portion of biodiversity in their custody is still very proaches, expressed as the way of thinking charac- of which was a gradual reduction in the broader much greater than many people imagine.
Indeed, teristic of the market economy, together with tech- scope of the classical concept of nature. The words nature of central Australia, have been established without knowledge of ecology, and of the sciences and the in English and in French, and naturaleza in Spanish any of the traditional Western conservation in- technologies associated therewith, which are trans- also come from the same Latin term. In Western struments; they have been set up simply through mitted through traditional trades.
This of protected natural areas, and set up a working many parts of the world, despite the wisdom they is the case, for example, of rice in Japan, taro in party on the spiritual and cultural values of pro- convey. This is also happening to the landscapes Hawaii and reindeer among the Nenets in North- tected natural areas, within the World Commis- they themselves helped to shape and maintain for Eastern Europe, just as it was bison that sustained sion on Protected Areas.
This yielded an initiative centuries. For ex- mals, plants and fungi showed that the high spiritual for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Her- ample, the promotion of conservation policies or esteem in which they are held prompted the com- itage, the need for which was apparent because programmes based on technically and emotionally munities analysed to develop and maintain efficient the concept of cultural heritage, in the section on neutral concepts—such as biodiversity—in many practices for safeguarding these species.
Traditional world heritage sites for example, had been reduced parts of the world is perceived as a cultural im- protection is, however, not enough to deal with to its tangible dimension, as a result of the same position and prompts rejection or mistrust among new threats or pressures against which these peo- materialist bias that had affected natural heritage.
Nine of the 33 species It also organised an international workshop on the ent views of the world. The study also estab- used languages, without conveying—or meanwhile lished that the growing of sacred plants in temple In , the Secretariat of the Convention on Bio- imposing—the characteristically Western positivist gardens, sanctuaries or cemeteries has saved many logical Diversity approved guidelines for evaluat- and materialist approach.
On a global scale, conservation policies.
Some significant events are At the summit held the same year in Almeria, the the scale of natural areas protected because they listed below. The follow- government-created parks.
As a result, the new include sacred areas or landscapes associated with ing year, the Ramsar Convention - Conference of IUCN guide for categorising protected natural ar- local communities, which, for generations, have the Parties passed a resolution on the cultural val- eas now recognises that these must not only con- safeguarded them. Most sacred thereof, the congress approved the first recom- tected areas at sacred sites, focused on indigenous species are indeed used for ritual, ceremonial and mendations for integrating cultural and spiritual cultures.
Such language, which is common in countries with of the organisation Maavalla Koda. There remain an estimated large international organisations associated di- tected natural areas, such as those in Australia and 2, sacred natural areas, of which some are rectly or indirectly with the conservation of biodi- in South Africa.
Al- although for reasons not relevant here, the per- though very often that has not yielded binding in- spective of the initial conservationists was aban- In , the Ramsar MedWet Programme organ- struments, their influence is now considerable and doned after the Second World War in favour of ised a workshop an integrated on an approach to growing, despite formidable resistance to them in the scientific and technical approaches that, over the natural and cultural aspects of the wetlands of the policies of sectors with the greatest economic the years, have ended up monopolising conserva- the Prespa Lakes Greece, Albania and Macedo- and environmental impact such as energy, mining, tionist rhetoric.
This is visible, for example, in the nia. In the same year, the German Federal Agency agricultural, fishing and tourism. This featured examination of ally been acknowledged in the conservation poli- considerations. Most European ues in areas inhabited by Christian monastic com- ia and Canada , others in transition like Mexico cultural landscapes have been pervaded with spirit- munities. The worldviews of This year , the third Delos Initiative work- countries such as Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador the Proto-Uralic, Germanic, Viking or Celtic peo- shop was held by Lake Aanaar, site of the sacred and Bhutan, which are very creative in this sense.
It had the Bolivia, for example, was the first country to give the Iberians, Tatars, Dacians or Hellenics. In addition to matters regard- Earth. Some of the intercultural nature conser- have survived both among the indigenous com- ing the indigenous Sami people, it dealt with the vation strategies that exist have been developed munities of Northern Europe to the present time guidelines for sacred natural areas associated with in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon.
This featured the presentation Large-scale cross-border initiatives could be add- church, did not hesitate to appropriate a host of of ten papers on synergies between natural and ed, one example of which would be the Kailash sacred natural sites and pilgrimages.
Continuity in spiritual heritage. It comprises a large territorial area of Ti- than it was an exception. Mount Kailash is venerated by over one thousand Recent years in Europe—cradle of anthropocen- This is shown in the following two examples. This is apparent drawn up of 42 lakes, 26 hills, 18 tarns, 15 rivers, 11 in the following examples. The ideas of the Mountain Trust, of the Department of the Environ- sacrificial stones23 , have also been described.
They transcendentalist philosophers of New England, ment and Housing and of the Territory and Land- are a clear reflection of the religious vision of the such as John Muir, found a strong ally in North scape Foundation. The following year, the second natural world that still exists, albeit fragmentarily, American indigenous spirituality, which made Initiative workshop was held at Ouranoupolis, near in Lapland.
Similarly, many of to safeguard this endangered species to mention versity, nor observation of charismatic species of the best landscape painters, like the leaders of the that significance to enhance their messages. Upon review- scendence, the influence of which has survived in example, even though their relationship with bio- ing the management plans of two national parks their works.
It certainly will become an anchor point for discussions in economics, religion, geography, ecology, and public policy. Most helpful customer reviews on Amazon. Indeed, teristic of the market economy, together with tech- scope of the classical concept of nature. Synthesis and future directions Check copyright status Cite this Title The full value of parks:
These ing role in proposals for the conservation of nature. This, promoter, forestry engineer R. Likewise, religions and indigenous traditions. Most great geolo- fifteen years later, when J.
The law that created the ble values were progressively sidelined. According to the spiritual and symbolic value of that legendary in , under Franco. They were likewise ignored Lawrence Hamilton, eminent biologist and former cradle of the Reconquest of Spain.
Similarly, the economists, or earth scientists who will save space- esses prompted by industrialisation. As a result of these de- bates, recommendations on intangible values were In recent years, however, because of the devel- The conservation of biodiversity is too important to adopted at both the and the congress- opments mentioned above, things have started leave it solely to the utilitarian values which, at this es.
Western materialist values are Agendaviva features dialogues on the great conser- intangible cultural heritage with a view to safe- questioned on all sides—both in the West and out- vation challenges with top philosophers, artists and guarding it. In the private sector, the Region and side it—and from an ethical perspective they are very scientists, in a search for convergence between tra- Landscape section of Obra Social de Caixa Cat- notoriously erroneous and limited.
Rather than rely- ditional rural culture and new scientific disciplines alunya has backed management plans like those ing on such an unstable base, would it not be more such as ecology and conservation biology. Materialist posi- The same has occurred in policies to protect spe- sons. Analysis of the collapse of recorded past civi- tivism was still to dominate this field. These have been developed on the basis of lisations has revealed that the most sustainable civi- Natural History Institution, founded shortly before criteria of conservation and ecological biology, lisations are those that have most respected their , was influenced by the main idealists and without considering the significance of the values environment, and whose respect has been based metaphysicians of the German Naturphilosophie, species have or have had throughout the history of on intrinsic and ultimately spiritual values.
The and the great naturalists of that time belonged to our society. See, for example, Berkes, F. Sacred Ecology; Traditional eco- E 9 our respect, but also our fullest attention. In our context this should involve the values of last 11 Palmer, M. Re-awakening a Religious Sense of the Natural ciety, despite appearances to the contrary.
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