Fragmentation of the environment affects the dispersal of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx). This also occurs in the Harz region, in central Germany, where in 2000 the Luchsprojekt Harz started reintroducing the Eurasian lynx. This constantly growing population causes lynx dispersal including high traffic volume …

This chapter addresses environmental education as an important subject of anthropological inquiry and demonstrates how ethnographic research can contribute to our understanding of environmental learning both in formal and informal settings. Anthropology of environmental education is rich in ethnographies …

Anthropology is traditionally broken into several subfields, physical/biological anthropology, social/cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and sometimes also applied anthropology. Anthropology of the environment, or environmental anthropology, is a specialization within the field …

De ecologische kwaliteit van het waterlichaam Bielheimerbeek is in de loop van de decennia’s verslechterd door menselijke invloed en ingrepen in het watersysteem. Het gevolg is dat het watersysteem matig scoort voor vissen en macrofauna. De maatregelen met ecologische doelstellingen zijn voor waterschap …

The Convention on Biodiversity has developed the concept of ‘ecosystem services’ and ‘natural resources’ in order to describe ways in which humans benefit from healthy ecosystems. Biodiversity, conceived through the economic approach, was recognized to be of great social and economic value to both present …

While the notion of ‘human nature’ has been devaluated from the status of ‘grand theory’ to a marginal anthropological debate, I argue that it deserves to be resurrected in order to comprehend some of the explanatory gaps inherent in other theories. Industrialization signifies a turning point in human …

Human and plant relationships are described within the rich tradition of multispecies ethnography, ethnobotany, and political ecology. In theorizing this relationship, the issues of functionalism, and interconnectivity are raised. This article aims to re-examine the position of plants in the context …

De gemeente Breda heeft zoals veel Nederlandse gemeenten te maken met bezuinigingen. Één van de maatregelen om hieraan te voldoen is gevonden in de omvorming van groen met hoge onderhoudskosten naar groen met lage onderhoudskosten. Om inzicht te krijgen in de effecten van deze omvormingen, heeft de gemeente …