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Journal articles on the topic "Social-Construction of Nature"

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Hannigan, John A., and Klaus Eder. "The Social Construction of Nature." Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie 24, no. 4 (1999): 556. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3341793.

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Gifford, T. "The Social Construction of Nature." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 3, no. 2 (October 1, 1996): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/3.2.27.

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Prokhovnik, Raia. "Hobbes's Artifice as Social Construction." Hobbes Studies 18, no. 1 (2005): 74–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187502505x00052.

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AbstractThe paper argues that Leviathan can be interpreted as employing a constructionist approach in several important respects. It takes issue with commentators who think that, if for Hobbes man is not naturally social, then man must be naturally unsocial or naturally purely individual. First, Hobbes's key conceptions of the role of artifice and nature-artifice relations are identified, and uncontroversially constructionist elements outlined, most notably Hobbes's conceptualisation of the covenant. The significance of crucial distinctions in Leviathan, between the civil and the social, between science and philosophy, between mankind's nature and the human condition, is developed. A constructionist reading of the argument of Leviathan is then advanced. The interpretation focuses on the contribution of nature-artifice relations, and of Hobbes's notion of civil philosophy, in understanding the critical issues of the state of nature and individual subjectivity. This reconstruction of the meaning of the text highlights the necessarily social character of human life in Leviathan, expressed in the way that the social' gives meaning to the 'natural', as well as because for Hobbes we live in a mind-affected world of perception and ideas. Leviathan can be interpreted as, in particular, a political social construction, because both social and individual identity logically require the social order and arrangements that only a strong government can supply. The social world, in Leviathan, cannot exist prior to the generation of a political framework, in civil society, the commonwealth, and law.
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Peterson, Anna. "Environmental Ethics and the Social Construction of Nature." Environmental Ethics 21, no. 4 (1999): 339–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics19992142.

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Crist, Eileen. "Against the Social Construction of Nature and Wilderness." Environmental Ethics 26, no. 1 (2004): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics200426138.

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Gerber, Judith. "Beyond dualism – the social construction of nature and the natural and social construction of human beings." Progress in Human Geography 21, no. 1 (February 1997): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1191/030913297671906269.

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Greider, Thomas, and Lorraine Garkovich. "Landscapes: The Social Construction of Nature and the Environment." Rural Sociology 59, no. 1 (February 3, 2010): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1549-0831.1994.tb00519.x.

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Mellor, Mary. "Women, nature and the social construction of ‘economic man’." Ecological Economics 20, no. 2 (February 1997): 129–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0921-8009(95)00100-x.

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Hosking, Dian Marie. "Social Construction as Process." Concepts and Transformation 4, no. 2 (December 31, 1999): 117–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cat.4.2.02hos.

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Here we outline one variant of social constructionism — one that emphasizes social ontologies as constructed in ongoing co-ordination processes. We stress that these may be constructed in relations between written and spoken words, non-verbal actions, artefacts, and objects 'in nature'. Relational processes often construct persons and worlds in either/or relations, but 'both/and' is also possible. We explore some 'new' both/and possibilities in various areas of practice showing, for example, that research can be viewed as construction and that it does not have to strive to enact the standard view of science. Instead, it might construct inclusive, multilogical, and heterarchical relations, constructing 'power to' go on in new ways. While social constructionist arguments do not demand any particular methods or relations, we suggest that there are good reasons why approaches of the sort described might be of value, might be more ecological, in today's fast', postcolonial, multi-cultural worlds.
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Gervais, Marie-Claude, and Klaus Eder. "The Social Construction of Nature: A Sociology of Ecological Enlightenment." British Journal of Sociology 48, no. 4 (December 1997): 704. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/591608.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Social-Construction of Nature"

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Fälton, Emelie. "The Social Construction of Swedish Nature as a Touristic Attraction." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-130538.

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Sweden is a country with a lot of tourism that is dependent on nature as a touristic resource. Nature itself is a complex concept with different interpretations. In this thesis, the social construction of the Swedish nature as a touristic attraction is scrutinized. A total of 671 visual images with belonging descriptive texts has been collected from an online image bank where information about Sweden is available for foreign marketers. The material was analysed in order to answer questions about how the Swedish nature and the touristic approach to it are presented, how nature features are assigned to it and how the relationship between nature and humans is presented. The composition and portraiture of the images and prominent themes and patterns in the textual descriptions have been identified as well. The theoretical framework is based on discourse theory, while the methodological framework is based on inspiration from both discourse analysis and content analysis. The result revealed that Swedish nature is presented as part of the rural Sweden with mountains, forests and littoral areas as the main elements. Swedish nature is foremost portrayed as wild and authentic, but also as sublime and pristine to a lesser extent. It is also portrayed as a place for touristic activities with a focus on the outdoors and physical activity. The relation between nature and humans differ, but the Swedish people are portrayed as more connected to nature than tourists
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Matulis, Brett Sylvester. "Costa Rican ecotourism and the (re)construction of social-natures on the Osa Peninsula." Online access, 2008. http://content.wwu.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/theses&CISOPTR=293&CISOBOX=1&REC=3.

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Seekamp, Erin Lynn. "Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: A Case Study of the Jefferson National Forest Planning Process." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35567.

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Environmental decision-making is a tournament of competing conservation agendas in which some values and beliefs are held up and exalted, others are dismissed and ignored, and still others are implicit and unnoticed. Stakeholders compete in the tournament to advance their value systems through the science they advocate or practice, through the constructs of environmental quality they use or study, and through the management goals they champion. It is our contention that participants who hope to compete successfully in this tournament should understand the rules of the game, which includes recognizing the values and ambiguities of the language used to discuss and describe nature - in particular the terms used to describe ecological conditions that become the goals and policies of forest management - and acknowledging the "middle nature".
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Marangudakis, Manussos. "Nature and power : a study of the social construction of nature in Eurasia from the Stone Age to the Hellenistic times." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ64615.pdf.

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Caven, Andrew James. "The construction of human's identity in nature by opposing social movements in the Idaho wolf wars." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2009/a_caven_041509.pdf.

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Reckard, Margaux Anna-Elizabeth. "Comparing website presentations of "nature" across Vermont ski areas and adjacent rural communities." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/834.

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Ski areas attract and cater to tourists and are often powerful symbols of cultural identity and place-based meaning. Within contexts of mountain tourism development, ski areas also communicate messages to orient visitors and residents to special features and qualities of the natural environment. This research specifically focuses on how Vermont ski areas and their neighboring rural communities use language, symbolism and imagery, within the context of website communications, to shape cultural meanings of nature and place. A sample of small, medium, and large ski areas, representing a range of development sizes, locations, and recreational offerings, were paired with their adjacent rural communities. A qualitative content analysis and a textual analysis of photographic images and written texts from ski area and town websites examined presentations of “nature” and place. Website presentations were compared across ski areas of different sizes, and between towns and ski areas. Findings show that portrayals of “nature” differ by the size of the ski area, but are similar across rural towns – though towns tended to produce a discourse about “nature” divergent from that of ski areas. In addition, both ski resort and town websites used images and texts of “Vermont” symbolically in constructing their place identity, though they did this in different ways. This study contributes a better understanding of the ways that ski areas and rural communities work both independently and collaboratively to create and sustain meaningful physical places and cultural myths. Aligning public communications electronically to present a more unified place identity to visitors and residents alike has potential planning and management implications for tourism development, especially in rural regions in Vermont and elsewhere.
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Gerber, Judith. "The social construction of nature : the case of forestry in Great Britain since the turn of the 20th century." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321586.

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Dillabough, Jo-Anne. "The domain specific nature of children's self-perceptions of competence : an exploratory paradigm for understanding the social construction of self-knowledge in children." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29598.

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In recent years we have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the role socializing agents' play in the development of children's self-perceptions of competence. Outlined extensively by Harter (1981, 1982, 1985), the basic assumption underlying this work is that the self-concept is a multidimensional construct reflecting cognitive representations of individuals' socialization experiences across achievement contexts. These multiple dimensions are subsumed under the guise of self-perceptions and are thought to reflect distinct cognitive structures within the phenomenological world of the child. To date, however, the majority of research stemming from Harter's original theoretical conceptualizations has been limited to examining the impact of socializing agents' expectations on children's self-perceptions of academic competence. The differential contributions made by socializing agents to the prediction of children's self-perceptions of competence across achievement domains, however, has not been assessed. In the present study, an attempt was made to fill this research gap. In accordance with the recognition of the multidimensional nature of perceived competence, the purposes of this study were: (1) to compare the contributions made by different socializing agents' expectations to the prediction of children's self-perceived academic, social, behavioral and athletic competence; (2) to assess the extent to which socializers' expectations contribute differentially to children's perceived competence when examined in conjunction with additional variables instrumental in the development of self-concept in children; (3) to extend Harter's (1981) original conceptualization of the self by testing a uniform perceived competence model across achievement domains; and (4) to identify the primary references children utilize to define themselves. Data were collected from 87 fourth and fifth grade children. The children completed questionnaires that assessed their self-perceived academic, social, behavioral and athletic competence. Teachers' and parents' actual expectations, children's perceptions of these expectations and children's academic and social performance were also measured. Four stepwise hierarchical regression analyses were conducted (i.e., one for self-perceived academic, social, behavioral and athletic competence, respectively) to identify those variables which best predict children's domain-specific self-perceptions. Results revealed that: (a) the relative contributions made by socializers' expectations to the prediction of children's perceived competence across achievement contexts vary as a function of the domain assessed; (b) children's perceptions of significant others' expectations and performance factors also play a significant role in the prediction of domain-specific perceived competence; and (c) the social references children utilize when making self-evaluations can be conceptualized within a domain and context specific framework. Issues related to the development of self-concept theory, empirical research and counselling practices are discussed in relation to the acquisition of self-knowledge in children.
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Phua, Ting-ting Florence. "Toward a critical assessment of social identity : the nature of organisational identification and its implications for inter-organisational cooperation in the context of the Hong Kong construction industry /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2510021x.

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Ardill, Allan. "Sociobiology and Law." Thesis, Griffith University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367727.

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The place of humans in nature and the nature of humans eludes us and yet there are those certain these issues can be reduced to biological explanations. Similarly, there are those rejecting the biological determinist hypothesis in favour of the equally unsubstantiated cultural construction hypothesis. This thesis draws on neo-Marxism and feminist intersectional post-positivist standpoint theory to posit biological and cultural determinism as privileged and flawed knowledge produced within relations of asymmetrical power. Instead “social construction” is preferred viewing knowledge of both nature and culture as partial and constructed within an historical, socioeconomic and political context according to asymmetrical power. Social constructionists prefer to question the role of power in the production of knowledge rather than asking questions about the place of humans in nature and the nature of humans; and trying to answer those questions through methods imbued with western, colonial, patriarchal, homophobic, and positivist ideals. As a starting point the postmodern view that knowledge is incomplete and has no ultimate authority is accepted. However, this thesis departs from postmodernism on the premise that knowledge is not all relative and can be critiqued by drawing on neo-Marxist and feminist intersectional post-positivist standpoint theory. Standpoint theory presumes a knowledge power nexus and contends accountable, ethical and responsible knowledge can be produced provided an “upwards perspective” is applied commencing with the standpoint of the most marginalised group within a given context. This approach to knowledge is applied to critically assess the role played by law in reproducing hierarchy and oppression in the categories of socioeconomic class, gender, sexuality and race to show that the law is sociobiological. My thesis is that human hierarchy and oppression are not natural or inevitable and are instead socially constructed through human action and institutions, including law. As social constructions, hierarchy and oppression must continually be justified as natural and inevitable otherwise they are vulnerable to change and destabilisation. It is argued here that a dominant justification for hierarchy and oppression is sociobiology because it naturalises and reifies human action and institutions as being determined by biology. As a legal justification sociobiology is defined as any discourse purporting to be based on “nature”, biological or evolutionary theories and “facts” to justify or reify hierarchy and domination. Unlike other ideologies, sociobiology is a dominant ideology because it is used to justify hierarchy and oppression in all the usual categories - class, gender, sexuality and race – and there is evidence of this in law. The argument is novel to the extent that sociobiology is not a dominant ideology in a conventional sense - as a cause of stratification - but in the sense that it is a dominant thematic excuse; whether or not those excuses are actually accepted. Nor is it posited as a dominant ideology in the sense that it is a top-down ideology imposed on, or duping subalterns. Rather, sociobiology is dominant because it can supply excuses for the naturalisation of human action in general and because it is more amenable to application by the powerful than the disempowered by virtue of that power. In western societies ideologies were once grounded in theology according to Christian decrees and beliefs. Since the Renaissance and the shift from feudalism to capitalism, ideologies have become more secular. A leading secular ideology is sociobiology being a collection of ideas closely linked to the antecedents of capitalism and continuing alongside it to the present day. Sociobiology is understood in this thesis in three overlapping ways. It includes modern sciences clustered around E.O. Wilson'’s famous 1975 essay Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. It is also a long historical tradition of scholarly theories about human nature and the place of humans in nature sharing the idea that human hierarchies on the basis of race, gender, sexuality and class are attributable variously to the work of God, nature, biology, and genes. Lastly it is an ideology. As an ideology, sociobiology is taken to be part of a long tradition of using the authority of privileged “knowledge” about nature to justify action and institutions that have the effect of creating and retaining hierarchy and oppression. This includes law.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Law School
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Books on the topic "Social-Construction of Nature"

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The social construction of nature: A sociology of ecological enlightenment. London: Sage Publications, 1996.

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Scarce, Rik. Fishy business: Salmon, biology, and the social construction of nature. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2000.

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Polish Association for American Studies, ed. America, the natural and the artificial: Construction of American identities, landscapes, social institutions, and histories. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2010.

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Selling Yellowstone: Capitalism and the construction of nature. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 2002.

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Koenig, Bernie. Natural law, science, and the social construction of reality. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2004.

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Gould, John. Rainwater catchment systems for domestic supply: Design, construction and implementation. London: Intermediate Technology Publications, 1999.

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Board, Canada National Energy. Mackenzie Gas Project: Reasons for decision, GH-1-2004. Calgary, Alberta: National Energy Board, Canada, 2010.

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D'agostino, Anacleto, Valentina Orsi, and Giulia Torri, eds. Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-904-7.

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This book contains studies on the symbolic significance of the landscape for the communities inhabiting the central Anatolian plateau and the Upper Euphrates and Tigris valleys in the 2nd-1st millennia BC. Some of the scholars who attended to the international conference Sacred Landscapes of Hittites and Luwians held in Florence in February 2014, present here contributions on the religious, symbolic and social landscapes of Anatolia between the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age. Archaeologists, hittitologists and historians highlight how the ancient populations perceived many elements of the environment, like mountains, rivers and rocks, but also atmospheric agents, and natural phenomena as essential part of their religious and ideological world. Analysing landscapes, architectures and topographies built by the Anatolian communities in the second and first millennia BC, the framework of a symbolic construction intended for specific actions and practices clearly emerges.
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author, Mealer Bryan, and Hymas Anna illustrator, eds. The boy who harnessed the wind. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc., 2015.

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Bryan, Mealer, and Zunon Elizabeth ill, eds. The boy who harnessed the wind. New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Social-Construction of Nature"

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Lossau, Julia, and Katharina Winter. "The Social Construction of City Nature: Exploring Temporary Uses of Open Green Space in Berlin." In Perspectives in Urban Ecology, 333–45. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17731-6_12.

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Leff, Enrique. "The Social Enownment of Nature, the Reinvention of Territories and the Construction of an Environmental Rationality." In Political Ecology, 359–400. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63325-7_12.

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Cassel, Susanna Heldt. "Identity construction in relation to niche events: images of Landsmót in social media." In Humans, horses and events management, 121–34. Wallingford: CABI, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242751.0121.

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Abstract In this chapter the concept of identity is discussed in relation to niche events as expressed through images produced and circulated in social media. Since niche events focus on special interests and activities for a limited number of people and attract participants from afar who share this interest, these types of events also influence the identities of the places that are represented in relation to them. By circulating images online - the people, attractions, landscapes and cultural practices of places connected to specific hashtags on social media - places are co-constructed and materialized in the minds of visitors, businesses and other stakeholders in an ongoing flow of communication. The study shows that social media posts related to Landsmót (the National Championship of the Icelandic horse) represent both the event and Iceland as a destination by stressing national pride and an Icelandic identity strongly connected to the rural landscape, to outdoor activities, to harsh nature and to skilled, strong and independent men and women who create their identities in relation to their horses.
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Fraisse, Laurent. "Social and solidarity economy and the co-construction of a new field of local public policies in France." In New perspectives in the co-production of public policies, public services and common goods, 207–26. Liège: CIRIEC, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.25518/ciriec.css3chap10.

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Public-Owned Enterprises (POEs) are generally large economic enterprises owned and governed by state institutions. POEs generally are the sole or the main provider of the key public goods and services as water, electricity, transport, telecommunications, and postal services. If administered efficiently, the POEs are important for national development and perspective of natural economic resources. The concern is how accurately these monopolistic enterprises are organized in aspects of administrative and managerial perspectives to function as effectively as possible for the objectives they are created. Therefore an overall summary of the public-owned enterprises is presented through their process of emerging, privatization, and evolution in Albania, southeast Europe. The process was accompanied by shortcomings due to its ad-hoc nature; and associated with negative effects of bad management, governance corruption, and low efficiency of the operational activities and results.
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Rigillo, Marina. "Hybridizing Artifice and Nature: Designing New Soils Through the Eco-Systemic Approach." In Regenerative Territories, 281–95. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78536-9_18.

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AbstractThe chapter outlines the cultural background for applying design strategies consistent with the challenge of circularity. The contribution focuses on ecological thinking as an effective design approach to produce and implement eco-innovative strategies able at facing environmental and societal challenges of our global age. Then the chapter depicts the Repair research experience in promoting a systemic design approach for recycling and reusing C&D waste as new, anthropogenic soils in peri-urban areas. According to the EEA Report n.6/2017, the chapter posits that the major environmental challenges of the present are not about single issues, such as waste reduction or soil-loss, rather they involve systemic change and design processes, linking together economy, social habits and technological responses. Therefore, the transition towards more sustainable urban metabolism deeply depends from creative visions by which breaking the circuit “take-make-dispose” and promote new—and somehow tentative—visions for implementing circularity at local and global scale. Further postulation in the paper is about assuming the concept of Anthropocene as theoretical ground for such eco-innovative design approach. The scientific evidence of living in human-dominated ecosystems makes designers towards a paradigm shift concerning the overcoming of the typical artificial/natural dichotomy by exploring the augmented opportunities in designing sustainable and resilient habitats thanks to a more collaborative, plural and innovative design approach: “What is important and significant here is how ecology and landscape architectural design might invent alternative forms of relationships between people, places and cosmos” (Corner, ‘Ecology and Landscape as agents of Creativity’, 1997, reprint in Reed &Lister (2018), Op. Cit., pp. 40–65, p. 42). Starting from these assumptions, the paper deepens the experience of collaborative design for implementing recycle and reuse of C&D waste for producing new technical soils, according to both the regulatory constraints (and potentials) and the site-specific features. The research goal is to provide new vegetated soils by waste thanks to an innovative design process based on both circular economy principles and collaborative knowledge production. Notably, the capacity of producing creative hybridization between biotic and abiotic component seems to be the new frontier in the field of technological design and material engineering. The term hypernatural, proposed by Blaine Brownell and Marc Swackhamer in 2015, introduces the idea of a co-evolutionary process between nature and science, looking at humans’ technological capacity as an effective opportunity for creating the conditions for making biotic ad abiotic systems working together: “The ultimate aim of technology is not antinatural: it is hypernatural” (Brownell & Swackhamer in Hyper-natural. Architecture’s new relationship with nature. Princeton Architectural Press, New York, p. 18, 2015). The chapter deals with the methodology applied for promoting a sort of protocological architecture (Burke, 2007), by which facilitating the C&D waste recycle and reuse within the construction sector, and notably into the landscape project. The research starts working under the H2020-Repair project, and it has developed within further research programs about C&D waste management in urban regeneration programs developed by the Department of Architecture of University of Naples Federico II.
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Orletti, Franca. "The Conversational Construction of Social Identity in Native/Non-native Interaction." In Culture in Communication, 271. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pbns.81.15orl.

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Ekers, Michael. "The social construction of nature." In Companion to Environmental Studies, 243–48. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315640051-48.

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Vogel, Steven. "The Social Construction of Nature." In Thinking like a Mall, 33–64. The MIT Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262029100.003.0002.

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"The Social Construction of Nature." In Thinking like a Mall. The MIT Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9503.003.0003.

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Peterson, Anna L. "The Social Construction of Nature and Human Nature." In Being HumanEthics, Environment, and Our Place in the World, 51–76. University of California Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520226548.003.0005.

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Conference papers on the topic "Social-Construction of Nature"

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Kodir, Abdul, Arif Prasetyo Wibowo, Dia Puspitasari, and Citra Dewi Kartika Paksi. "Women and Nature: From Social Construction towards Environmental Protection." In Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/acec-18.2018.6.

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Hemachandra, Ravindu, and Menaha Thayaparan. "Improving Psychological Health of Junior Professionals in the Construction Organisations in Sri Lanka." In The SLIIT International Conference on Engineering and Technology 2022. Faculty of Engineering, SLIIT, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54389/ocxl3958.

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Construction is a volatile and highly uncertain industry that faces several challenges in terms of poor image, skills and labour shortage, exposure to adverse weather, macho culture, and stressful environment. The labour-intensive nature of construction industry leads to vertical and horizontal segregation within the workforce. This study focuses on the psychological health experienced by junior professionals from the time they join until they settle down in Sri Lanka. It is vital to keep the junior professionals in their best psychological position to ensure their continuity in the job. This study investigated the risk factors that contribute to psychological health of junior professionals in construction industry and proposed strategies to address such risk factors. The research adopted a qualitative survey strategy, where 24 semi-structured qualitative interviews, including 18 junior and 6 senior construction professionals, were conducted. The research identified 26 factors under five categories such as adverse nature, apprenticeship, company culture, competition and opinions. While conforming to the existing factors from literature, the research revealed new factors too. Few to name are some common factors such as lack of leisure events, deadlines, job uncertainty; some personal factors such as human behaviour, illegal activities, personal agendas, lack of belongingness, educational background, personal bias, and lack of confidence and some dependency factors such as lack of support from seniors and task-oriented training. The senior professionals, while agreeing to most of these factors, claimed these are mainly due to the limited subject specific knowledge and lack of awareness on the nature of the job including regulations and policies by junior professionals. Appointing a mental health monitoring officer, implementing stronger human resource management policies, investing on training and development, counselling and support systems and encouraging more social activities were some of the key strategies proposed to improve the psychological wellbeing of the junior professional. KEYWORDS: Psychological Health, Junior Professionals, Human Resources Management, Construction Organisations.
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He, Lin, and Wei Chen. "Incorporating Social Impact on New Product Adoption in Choice Modeling: A Case Study in Green Vehicles." In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2012-71123.

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While discrete choice analysis is prevalent in capturing consumers’ preferences and describing their choice behaviors in product design, the traditional choice modeling approach assumes that each individual makes independent decisions, without considering the social impact. However, empirical studies show that choice is social — influenced by many factors beyond engineering performance of a product and consumer attributes. To alleviate this limitation, we propose a new choice modeling framework to capture the dynamic influence from social network on consumer adoption of new products. By introducing the social influence attributes into the choice utility function, the social network simulation is integrated with the traditional discrete choice analysis in a three-stage process. Our study shows the need for considering social impact in forecasting new product adoption. Using hybrid electric vehicle as an example, our work illustrates the procedure of social network construction, social influence evaluation, and choice model estimation based on data from National Household Travel Survey. Our study also demonstrates several interesting findings on the dynamic nature of new technology adoption and how social network may influence consumers’ “green attitude” in hybrid electric vehicle adoption.
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Sajnóg, Natalia, and Katarzyna Sobolewska-Mikulska. "Limitations Imposed on Land Properties Resulting from the Construction and Exploitation of Transmission Devices in Poland." In Environmental Engineering. VGTU Technika, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/enviro.2017.236.

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Sustainable social and economic development of the country, as well as the need to ensure its energy safety requiresthe modernisation of the existing and construction of new transmission devices. The characteristic feature of technical infrastructure is its linear nature, i.e. its course through numerous real estates, resulting in limitations imposed on such properties. The limitations differ depending on the stage of the investment process. Such stages include the formal legal stage (designing and collecting appropriate permits and decisions), the investment implementation stage, and the stage of exploitation of transmission devices. Within the first stage, a limitation concerning land development may occur (location of investments in planning documents); limitations of the use of land properties always occur in this case (acquisition of a legal title to the land property disposal for building purposes). At the stage of construction, i.e. the investment implementation, limitations related to the deterioration of the use of the land property may appear. The third stage may involve limitations connected with the presence of transmission devices in the space of the land property, i.e. limitations which result from the actual use of the land property by the transmission company. The objective of this paper is to identify limitations imposed on land properties resulting from the construction and exploitation of transmission infrastructure in Poland.
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Duzinchuk, V. D., A. J. Karchmit, and S. V. Aksenchik. "THE IMPACT OF URBAN ECOLOGY ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SPORT." In SAKHAROV READINGS 2022: ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE XXI CENTURY. International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46646/sakh-2022-2-177-180.

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The impact of human activity on the environment has caused changes in the hydrosphere, lithosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and has led to a multitude of environmental problems that are acute for modern society. The caused changes in the environment have had an impact on all aspects of social life. The interrelation of ecology with physical culture and sports deserves special attention, as it is of a bidirectional nature. On the one hand, man actively affects the environment (construction and operation of sports facilities, organization and conduct of sports competitions, etc.). On the other hand, human health depends on the state of the environment, the ecological situation in which a person trains.
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JAYASINGHE, S. M. I. A., and FELIX WEERAKKODY. "Construction Project Risk Management for Performance Improvement (Polgahawela-Pothuhera-Alawwa Integrated Water Supplying Project)." In The SLIIT International Conference on Engineering and Technology 2022. Faculty of Engineering, SLIIT, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54389/soiu6038.

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Construction risk management can be defined as the avoidance or the reduction of possible harmful incidents or actions in a construction project. It can be one of the most important factors in a construction project. Depending on the nature of the project, types of risks can be very wide in its range. Understanding the risk factors and the proper management of them, can lead a project to be completed on schedule, avoiding budget overruns whilst ensuring the safety and welfare of all the project participants. This research aims to identify the risks and their possible impacts on a specific construction project. The selected project is the construction of the Polgahawela-Pothuhera-Alawwa Integrated Water Supplying scheme located in the North-Western province of Sri Lanka. Risks categorized under the different sectors such as financial management, technical, quality, health, and safety, environment, social, legal and political were considered in the research but limited to the construction phase of the project. The methodology for this study is based on ISO 31000, which includes risk identification, risk analysis, risk evaluation and risk mitigation. To identify the relevant risks of the project, a structured interview using a questionnaire was conducted among selected project participants. In making the assessments founded on the responses received, weighted credits were assigned based on the academic and professional qualifications of the respondents. The responses were utilized in this manner to develop a listing of risk and its consequences. This highlighted the more severe risks enabling recommendations to be made to mitigate and manage such risks. The risk management process together with knowledge from previous literature was used in making recommendations to mitigate and manage risk towards project performance improvement. It should be noted that the findings could be of benefit to future contractors associated with similar projects. KEYWORDS: Risk, Water Supplying, Probability of occurrence, Consequence
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Ramdhan Mhammed, Hamdan. ""Requirements for promoting a culture of peaceful coexistence and inclusion In the city of Mosul An analytical study from a social perspective "." In Peacebuilding and Genocide Prevention. University of Human Development, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/uhdicpgp/3.

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" The current research aims to identify the nature and reality of peaceful coexistence in the city of Mosul, by determining its levels and assessing its social dimensions among its various components in the city, for the purpose of reaching the possibility of developing the feelings of its members and activating their role in achieving harmony and harmony, accepting the other, living in luxury, etc. Positive in providing stability and social and political security and identifying the resulting problems. As the importance of this research is revealed in revealing the basic dimensions of peaceful coexistence between the various social components in the city of Mosul and identifying the manifestations of these dimensions and their factors depending on measuring the extent of the cohesion of individuals and accepting or rejecting coexistence among them. This is because identifying this reality and the dimensions, manifestations and factors that support and affect it and are related to it would facilitate the consolidation of its activities and social relations between these social components in the social reality of the city. Not to mention that, the contemporary Iraqi street, specifically the city of Mosul after the American occupation of Iraq, witnessed problems and disturbances that humanity has not witnessed throughout the history of its civilized development, which affected social construction, and these problems crystallized and were born due to several reasons and accumulated reasons and silence their shape and content in the Iraqi scene, so the individuals in the city. They are more influential because they are more interacting with each other in social reality, and it is from these bases that the importance of the subject we are studying comes from. "
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Xinting, Liang. "The Trajectory of Collective Life: The Ideal and Practice of New Village in Tianjin, 1920s-1950s." In The 38th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand. online: SAHANZ, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55939/a4026pt85d.

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Originated from New Village Ideal in Japan, New Village was introduced to China in the early 1920s and became a byword for social reform program. Many residential designs or projects whose name includes the term “Village” or “New Village” had been completed in China since that time. This paper uses the Textual Criticism method to sort out the introduction and translation of New Village Ideal theory in China, and to compare the physical space, life organization and concepts of the New Village practices in ROC with in early PRC of Tianjin. It is found that the term “New Village” continued to be used across several historical periods, showing very similar spatial images. But the construction and usage of New Village and the meaning of collective life changed somewhat under different political positions and social circumstances: New Village gradually became an urban collective residential area which only bore the living function since it was introduced into modern China. The goal of its practice changed from building an equal autonomy to building a new field of power operation, a new discourse of social improvement and a new way for profit-seeking capital. With the change of state regime, the construction had entered a climax stage. New Village then became the symbol of the rising political and social status of the working class, and the link between the change of urban nature and spatial development. Socialism collective life and the temporal and spatial separation or combination between production and live constructed the collective conscience and identity of residents. The above findings highlight the independence of architecture history from general history, help to examine the complexity of China’s localization New Village practice and the uniqueness of Tianjin’s urban history, and provide new ideas for the study of China’s modern urban housing development from the perspective of changes in daily life organization.
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Sugahara, Ryo, and Akio Kuroyanagi. "Research on Optimum Function and Utilization of Oceanic Architectures for Marine Space Use: Case Study on Kyushu Region, Japan." In ASME 2017 36th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/omae2017-61618.

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Recently, the demanding for effective utilization of marine spaces in forms of oceanic architectures has been rising high by new social requirements as well as other constructions, and the like. Consequently, architecutural characteristics and structural effectiveness of them should be reevaluated accordingly. Objects of this study are four architectures located in the shallow area of sea around Kyushu Region,namely Marizon, Genkai Sea Hot Spring Palea, Marine Aquarium Sea Doughnut, and Akasaki Elementary School. Their functions, structures, setting forms, then conditions for situating buidings, processes of construction at sea, and challenges after construction had been clarified by our literature survey, the hearing investigation and the field research. Our results are as following. Functionally, each above architectures has respective facilities to fully utlize regional marine resources and environment, etc.; Structurally, all of them had premeditated both the bad conditions of coastal environment and providing spaces for water activities. In terms of their construction processes at sea, factors blow had been carefully considered before being sited: limitations of local spatial scale, full utilization of local environmental conditions, measures against disadvantages of sites, the particularities of regional nature, environment, and society. In conclusion, our findings suggest that planning of the oceanic architecuture should combine the usage, the fuction, and the understructures well with its marine conditions.
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Rendon, Ivonne, Felipe Espinoza, Johnson Ching, Bryan Colorado, and Rommy Torres. "Design of an economic house with polyurethane wall technology applying the Lego removable system for the Monte Sinaí Sector, Guayaquil." In Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2023) Integrating People and Intelligent Systems. AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002868.

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Access to housing in Ecuador is limited and specifically in the outskirts of Guayaquil it does not accommodate strata with resources of less than $100 per month, which is a constant in the Monte Sinaí study sector. Sustainable development focused on living has allowed new designs to serve as utilities for society, satisfying emerging housing needs for low-income populations. The objective of this study is to propose an alternative architectural design for housing with the use of polyurethane-based biomaterials using the Lego removable wall construction system to obtain economic, environmental and social benefits. For the aesthetic development of the house, the use of scalar modulations is contemplated. The methodology applied is of a qualitative nature, through the analysis of case studies that operate as analogous models. The results focused on the development of types of removable Lego walls and the study of polyurethane additives to the structural mixture. In conclusion, it is obtained that the development of housing within the sustainable approach contributes to the economic, environmental and social well-being of the users of the Monte Sinaí Sector, who can access decent housing with this design alternative.
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Reports on the topic "Social-Construction of Nature"

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Bailey, Jed, Christina Becker-Birck, Devindranauth Bissoon, Ashley Fox, Christiaan Gischler, Dave Hampton, Mathew Lee, Livia Minoja, and William Sloan. Building a more Resilient and Low-Carbon Caribbean: Report 4: Infrastructure Resilience in the Caribbean through Nature Based Solutions. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004603.

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The Caribbean islands are among the 25 most-vulnerable nations in terms of disasters per-capita or land area, and climate change is only expected to intensify these vulnerabilities. The loss caused by climate events drags the ability of the Caribbean countries to invest in infrastructure and social programs, contributing to slower productivity growth, poorer health outcomes, and lower standards of living. Within this context, building resiliency should become a priority for the Caribbean countries. The series “Building a more resilient and low-carbon Caribbean”, focuses on improving the resiliency, sustainability and decarbonization of the construction industry in the Caribbean. The results show that increasing building resiliency is economically viable for the high-risk islands of the Caribbean, generating long term savings and increasing the infrastructure preparedness to the impacts of CC. The first three reports of the series analyze the economic losses caused by climate related events, the benefits of improving building resiliency to reduce those economic losses and the benefits of subsidized financing for resilient buildings in the Caribbean. The results show that increasing building resiliency is economically viable for the high-risk islands of the Caribbean, generating long term savings and increasing the infrastructure preparedness to the impacts of CC. This report Report 4: Infrastructure Resilience in the Caribbean through Nature Based Solutions - extends the previous analysis to examine the potential role for nature-based solutions (NBSs) in the region. The report first defines NBSs in the context of the Caribbean construction industry. It then considers specific NBS options that could be viable in the region. Next, the report reviews the status of NBS related projects in the Caribbean, including efforts supported by the IDB. This analysis also identifies several barriers to the development of NBSs in the region. Finally, the report suggests measures that can be taken to address these barriers and increase the use of NBSs in the Caribbean.
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