Langscape Magazine Vol. 4-2

The People’s Issue — Part 2: At Home and in the World

Volume 4, Issue 2 | 2015

In this second issue of our “People’s Issue” series, we celebrate the many ways in which individuals and communities around the world experience the “inextricable link” between people and nature, and express their sense of place — both at home, and in the larger world. Read the Editorial and Table of Contents.

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Editorial | Rebuilding Sense of Place: At Home, and In the World

Langscape Magazine Volume 4, Issue 2 | 2015 “Home is where you hang your hat,” goes a popular saying in the English language. That…

Mirroring the Land: Biocultural Diversity Embodied

Photos and text by Sonja Swift Golden light on dusty hills, Los Osos, California. 2015 When it rains in California I rejoice. I see the…

Country Minds and the Age of Restoration

by Bob Weeden I often think about this marvelous planet, both the place we call home and the world beyond our personal experience. I think…

At Home Between Sciences and Humanities: Biocultural Diversity as Source and Object of Interdisciplinary Dialogue

by Cristina Muru The Nilgiris or Blue Mountains, one of India’s biodiversity hotspots, with diverse endemic fauna, flora, and languages. Nadugani, Nilgiris, Tamil Nadu.…

It’s Hard to Know

by Mary Louise Pratt Red Bay with islands. Photo: Renato Rosaldo, 2015 I grew up in small-town Ontario, in the part of Canada made famous…

Edges of Transformation: Women Crossing Boundaries between Ecological and Social Healing

by Jeanine M. Canty Everything interesting happens at the edges. As we are moving to restore our relationships with nature, including one another, in an…

Cracked Earth: Indigenous Responses to Nepal’s Earthquakes

by Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin A traditional mud, stone, and wood house destroyed by the earthquakes, along the main road between Charikot and Dolakha.…

When Home Becomes a Protected Area: The Udege People and the Bikin River Valley in the Russian Far East

by Aleksandra Bocharnikova An owl in the Bikin River valley. Photo: Alexei Kudryavtcev, 2014 The Sikhote-Alin is a mountain range in Russia’s Pacific Far…

Biocultural Diversity Conservation Tourism: The Gamaran Protected Forest, West Sumatra, Indonesia

by Tom Corcoran . Ramly tells Minang stories by the firelight in the Gamaran Forest. The art of storytelling is still very much alive in…

Fostering Well-being Through Biocultural Diversity: The Las Nubes Project in a Biological Corridor in Southern Costa Rica

by Felipe Montoya-Greenheck . Las Nubes Forest Reserve, donated by Dr. Woody Fisher to the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Photo: Felipe…

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The People’s Issue — Part 2: At Home and in the World

Purchase This Issue

Why buy when the stories are free?

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Editorial | Rebuilding Sense of Place: At Home, and In the World

Mirroring the Land: Biocultural Diversity Embodied

Country Minds and the Age of Restoration

At Home Between Sciences and Humanities: Biocultural Diversity as Source and Object of Interdisciplinary Dialogue

It’s Hard to Know

Edges of Transformation: Women Crossing Boundaries between Ecological and Social Healing

Cracked Earth: Indigenous Responses to Nepal’s Earthquakes

When Home Becomes a Protected Area: The Udege People and the Bikin River Valley in the Russian Far East

Biocultural Diversity Conservation Tourism: The Gamaran Protected Forest, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Fostering Well-being Through Biocultural Diversity: The Las Nubes Project in a Biological Corridor in Southern Costa Rica

Isafarn Nudrar: Flowerpots Help Preserve Biocultural Diversity in the High Atlas, Morocco

Orpul as a Place of Mind: Integrating Local Ritual into School Curriculum to Sustain Biocultural Diversity in Tanzania

Decolonial Mapmaking: Reclaiming Indigenous Places and Knowledge

Strengthening the Link between Green “Fights” and Language “Fights”: A Proposal from Basque Country

Mangroves, Education, and Recovery of the Territory: Biocultural Diversity in Bahía Solano, Colombia

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