Resources

Below is a listing of key references and resources which have been valuable in guiding the PhD research which underpins eyes4earth. The list is continually being updated so be sure to check back now and then.

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Reference Books (in alphabetical order)

Abram, D. (1996). The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. Random House, New York.

Atran, S. and Medin D. (2008). The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature. The MIT Press, pp 333. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Bateson, G. (1979). Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. Bantam Books.

Bohm, D. (1980). Wholeness and the Implicate Order. pp284. Routledge, London.

Bolen, J.S. (1979). The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self. pp111. Harper & Row Publishers, San Francisco.

Bortroft, H. (1996). The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe’s Way of Science. pp419. Floris Books, Edinburgh.

Burns, M. and Weaver, A. (Eds) (2008). Exploring sustainability science: A southern African perspective. SUN Press, Stellenbosch.

Bromilow, C. (2010). Problem Plants and Alien Weeds of South Africa. pp424. Briza, Pretoria.

Capra, F. (1976). The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. 3rd Edition. pp412. Flamingo, Hammersmith, London.

Capra, F. (1996). The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. pp347. Anchor Books, New York.

Cock, J. (2007). The War Against Ourselves: Nature, Power and Justice. pp245. Wits University Press, Johannesburg.

Cowling R.M. and Pierce S.M. (2009). East of the Cape: Conserving Eden. pp168. Fernwood Press, Simon’s Town.

Drengson, A and Devall, B (eds) (2008). The Ecology of Wisdom: Writings by Arne Naess. pp339. Counterpoint, Berkeley.

Eisely, L. (1969). The Unexpected Universe. pp239. Harcourt Brace & Company, Orlando.

Frawley, D. (1997). Ayurveda and the Mind: The Healing of Consciousness. pp346. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, Delhi.

Fleishmann, P. R. (1994). Vipassana Meditation: Healing the Healer and The Experience of Impermanence. pp27. Vipassana Research Institute, Igatpuri.

Fleishmann, P.R. (2008). An Ancient Path. pp169. Vipassana Research Institute, Igatpuri.

Foster, C., Foster, D. and Hutchinson, M. (2005). Africa: Speaking with Earth & Sky. pp.127 David Philip Publishers, Claremont, South Africa.

Jaworski, J. (1996). Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. pp204. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco.

Jung, C.G. (1960). Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. From the Collected Works of C.G. Jung Volume 8, Bollingen Series XX. pp135. Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J.

Jung, C.G. (1959). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. 2nd Edition. The Collected Works of C.G. Jung Volume 9, Part 1. pp451. Routledge, London.

Junkin, E.D. (Ed) (1987). South African Passage: Diaries of the Wilderness Leadership School. pp195. Fulcrum Incorporated, Colorado.

Kahn, P.H and Kellert, S. R. (eds) (2002). Children and Nature: Psychological, Sociocultural and Evolutionary Investigations. pp348. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Kasser, T. (2002). The High Price of Materialism. pp149. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Louv, R. (2005). Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. (Updated and Expanded (2008)). Ppp390. Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill.

Main, R. (2007). Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience. The State University of New York Press.

Maiteny, P. (2004) Perceptions of Nature by Indigenous Communities. In J. Burley, J. Evans and J. Youngquist (eds) Encyclopedia of Forest Sciences (Landscape & Planning section). Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 462-471

Mansfield, V. (1995). Science, Synchronicity and Soul-Making. Open Court Publishing Company.

McKenzie-Mohr, D. and Smith, W. (1999). Fostering Sustainable Behaviour: An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing. pp160. New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island.

McCallum, I. (2005). Ecological Intelligence: Rediscovering Ourselves in Nature. pp243. Africa Geographic, Cape Town.

Mutwa, V. C. (1964/1998). Indaba, My Children: African Tribal History, Legends, Customs and Religious Beliefs. pp696. Canongate Books, Edinburgh

Mutwa, V.C., Larsen, S. and Teish, L. (2003).  Zulu Shaman: Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries.

Peat, F.D. (1987). Synchronicity, The Bridge Between Matter and Mind. Bantam.

Player, I. (undated). Man and the Wilderness. pp62. Time Printers, Durban

Riley-Taylor, E. (2002). Ecology, Spirituality & Education: Curriculum for Relational Knowing. pp174. Peter Lang, New York.

Scheltema, J.C. (ed) (2007). Baviaanskloof Stories. pp129. Baviaanskloof Tourism.

Suzuki, D and Knudston, P (1992). Wisdom of the Elders: Sacred Native Stories of Nature. pp274. Bantam Books, New York.

Taylor, S. (2010). Waking from Sleep: The Causes of Awakening Experiences and How to Make Them Permanent. pp266. Hay House, London.

Verschuuren, B., Wild, R. McNeely, J.A., Oviedo, G. (eds). Sacred Natural Sites: Conserving Nature & Culture. pp310. Earthscan, London.

Van Manen, M. (1990). Researching Lived Experience: Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy. pp202. State University of New York Press.

Vivekananda, S (2001). Education for Character. pp160. Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Hyderabad.

Wansbury, A. (2006). Birds – Divine Messengers: Transform your life with their Guidance and Wisdom. Findhorn Press, Findhorn. pp141.

Young, J., Haas, E. and McGown, E. (2010) Coyote’s Guide to Connecting with Nature. 2nd Edition. pp548. Owlink Media Corporation, Washington.

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Journal Articles & Academic Theses.

Ashley P. 2007. ‘Toward an Understanding and Definition of Wilderness Spirituality’, Australian Geographer, 38: 1, 53 — 69.

Balmford, A. and Cowling, R.M. (2005). Fusion or Failure? The Future of Conservation Biology. Conservation Biology, Vol 20, 3: 692-695.

Bernard, P.S. 2007. Re-Uniting with the Kosmos. JSRNC 1.1: 109-129

Biggs, H. C., Breen, C. M. and Palmer, C. G. (2008) ‘Engaging a Window of Opportunity: Synchronicity between a Regional River Conservation Initiative and Broader Water Law Reform in South Africa’, International Journal of Water Resources Development, 24:3, 329 — 343.

Biotropica (2009). Special Section: Sharing Ecological Knowledge: Conquering the Research-Implementation Gap Beyond Just Research: Experiences from Southern Africa in Developing Social Learning Partnerships for Resource Conservation Initiatives. Vol 41, No. 5.

Butterworth, P. (2000). The Conservation and Convergence of Meaning: A functional analysis of synchronicity and the I Ching.  Journal of Transpersonal Psychology Section of The British Psychological Society, 4(3).

Chawla, L. (2006). Reserach Methods to Investigate Significant Life Experiences: Review and Recommnedations. Environmental Education Research: Vol. 12, Nos. 3-4: 359-374

Cocks, M. 2006. Biocultural Diversity: Moving Beyond the Realm of ‘Indigenous’ and ‘Local’ People. Human Ecology, Vol. 34, No. 2.

Costanza, R., Graumlich, L., Steffen, W., Crumley, C., Dearing, J. Hibbard, K., Leemans, R., Redman, C. and Schimel, D., 2007. Sustainability or Collapse: What Can We Learn from Integrating the History of Humans and the Rest of Nature. Ambio Vol. 36, Issue 7; 522–527 .

DeMares, R. (2000). Human Peak Experience Triggered by Encounters with Cetaceans. Anthrozoos 13(2): 89-103.

DeMares, R. and K. Krycka (1998). Wild-Animal-Triggered Peak Experiences: Transpersonal Aspects. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 30(2): 161-177.

De Wet, B. (2007). Influence of Wilderness Experience on the Adoption of Environmentally Responsible Behaviour. MPhil Thesis. University of Stellenbosch

De Wit, M.P. et al. 2003. Conflicts of interest in environmental management: estimating the costs and benefits of a tree invasion. Biological Invasions 3: 167–178, 2001.

Dustin D.L, Bricker K.S and Schwab, K.A (2010). People and Nature: Toward an Ecological Model of Health Promotion. Leisure Sciences, 32: 3-14.

Ehrlich, P.R., and Kennedy, D., 2005 Millennium Assessment of Human Behavior. Science 309: 562 – 563.

Esler, K.J., Prozesky, H.. Sharma, G.P., McGeoch, M., (2010). How wide is the ‘‘knowing-doing’’ gap in invasion biology? Biological Invasions 12:4065–4075

Fortuin, K.P.J. and Bush, S.R. (2010). Educating students to cross boundaries between disciplines and cultures and between theory and practice. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Vol. 11 No. 1: pp. 19-35.

Funtowicz, S., Ravetz, J., O’Connor, M. (1998). Challenges in the use of science for sustainable development. International Journal of Sustainable Development 1(1): 99-107.

George, B. H. (2005). The Self, the symbolic and synchronicity: virtual realities and the emergence of the psyche. 50: 271-284.

Gough, A. (1999). Kids Don’t Like Wearing the Same Jeans as their Mums and Dads: so whose ‘life’ should be in significant life experiences research? Environmental Education Research: Vol. 5, No. 4: 383-394.

Gough, N. (1999). Surpassing Our Own Histories: autobiographical methods for environmental education research. Environmental Education Research: Vol. 5, No. 4: 407-418.

Hadorn, H., G, Bradley, D., Pohl, C., Rist, S., & Wiesmann, U. (2006). Implications of transdisciplinarity for sustainability research. Ecological Economics 60: 119-128.

Goldberg, M.A., 1995. Social marketing: are we fiddling while Rome burns? Journal of Consumer Psychology 4(4): 347-370.

Hayes, M.A. 2009. Into the Field: Naturalistic Education and the Future of Conservation. Conservation Biology, Volume 23, No. 5, 1075–1079. Society for Conservation Biology.

Jacobs, M. (2006). The Production of Mindscapes: a Comprehensive Theory of Landscape Experience. PhD Dissertation, Wageningen University. pp268.

Kimmerer, R.W. (2002). Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge into Biological Education: A Call to Action. BioScience, Vol. 52, 5: 432-438.

Knight, A. T., Cowling, R. M., Rouget, M., Balmford, A., Lombard, A. T. and Campbell, B. M. (2008), Knowing But Not Doing: Selecting Priority Conservation Areas and the Research–Implementation Gap. Conservation Biology, 22: 610–617.

Maiteny, P. (2002) Mind in the gap: summary of research exploring ‘inner’ influences on prosustainability learning and behaviour. Environmental Education Research. Vol 8, No.3.

Manolis, J.C. et al. (2008). Leadership: A New Frontier in Conservation Science Conservation Biology. Society for Conservation Biology, Volume **, No. *, ***–***

Max-Neef, M.A., 2005 Foundations of transdisciplinarity. Ecological Economics, 53(1): 5-16.

Mayer, F.S. and Frantz, C.M. (2004). The connectedness to nature scale: A measure of individuals’ feeling in community with nature. Journal of Environmental Psychology 24: 503–515

McDonald, M. G., S. Wearing, et al. (2009). The Nature of Peak Experience in Wilderness, Routledge. 37: 370 – 385.

Miller, J.R. (2005). Biodiversity conservation and the extinction of experience. TRENDS in Ecology and Evolution Vol.20 No.8: 430-434.

Morse, M. (2011). River Experience: A Phenomenological Description of Meaningful Experiences on a Wilderness River Journey, PhD Thesis, School of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Tasmania. pp312.

Nath, B. (2003). Education for Sustainable Development: The Johannesburg Summit and Beyond. Environment, Development and Sustainability 5: 231–254, 2003.

Payne, P. (1999). The Significance of Experience in SLE Research. Environmental Education Research: Vol. 5, No. 4: 365-381.

Pohl, C. (2011). What is progress in transdisciplinary research? Futures, 43(6), pp.618-626. Available at: http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0016328711000644 [Accessed July 11, 2011]

Riedy, C. (2003). A deeper and wider understanding of sustainable development. Ecopolitics XIV Conference: Greening Sustainability. Melbourne, Victoria.

Samways, M.J. (2007). Rescuing the extinction of experience. Biodiversity Conservation, 16: 1995-1997.

Schein, E.H. (1993). On Dialogue, Culture, and Organizational Learning. Reprinted from Organizational Dynamics, Edgar H. Schein, vol 22, summer 1993 with permission from Elsevier Science. Reflections, Vol 4, No. 4.

Schroeder, H.W. (1991). The Spiritual Aspect of Nature: A Perspective from Depth Psychology. Proceedings of Northeastern Recreation Research. Saratoga Springs, NY, April 8, 1991.

Shava, S. (2008). Indigenous Knowledges: A Genealogy of Representations and Applications in Developing Contexts of Environmental Education and Development in Southern Africa. Doctor of Philosophy, Dissertation. Rhodes University, Grahamstown.

Simaika, J.P. and Samways, M.J. (2010). Biophilia as a Universal Ethic for Conserving Biodiversity. Conservation Biology, Vol **, No. **, ***–***.

Smith, L. (2004). A Qualitative Analysis of Profound Wildlife Encounters. Master of Philosophy Thesis. Monash University, Australia.

Stolder, M.E., Hydo, S.K., Zorn, C.R, and Bottoms, M.S. ,2007. Fire, Wind, Earth, and Water: Raising the Education Threshold Through Teacher Self-Awareness. Journal of Transcultural Nursing 18:265

Strydom, W.F. (2009). The Impact of State-Of-Rivers Reporting on People’s Attitudes Towards River Conservation: A Case Study of the Buffalo and Hartenbos & Klein Brak Catchments in South Africa. Master of Science Thesis, University of Stellenbosch

Swan, J.A. (2010). Transpersonal Psychology and the Ecological Conscience. The Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, Vol.42, No.1.

Tanner, T. (1998a). On the Origins of SLE Research, Questions Oustanding, and Other Research Traditions. Environmental Education Research: Vol. 4, No. 4: 419-423.

Tannner, T. (1998b). Choosing the Right Subjects in Significant Life Experiences Research. Environmental Education Research: Vol. 4, No. 4: 399-417.

Wilhelm-Rechmann A., 2007. Social Marketing – More than just “advertising” for the environment. In: Society for Conservation Biology Newsletter 14 (4).

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Reports

 

Deakin University & Parks Victoria (2008). Healthy Parks, Healthy People: The Health Benefits of Contact with Nature in a Park Context. A review of relevant literature, 2nd edition.

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Websites

There’s plenty of single information-loaded sites so below are a few active online ‘communities’ and ‘networks’ linked to area of nature experiences, perceptions, health and education/marketing.

8 Shields Institute – http://8shields.com/

Children & Nature Network – http://www.childrenandnature.org/

Fostering Sustainable Behavior – http://www.cbsm.com/

Public Participation GIS – http://www.ppgis.net/

Wilderness Awareness School – http://www.wildernessawareness.org/

Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress - http://www.healthyparkshealthypeoplecongress.org/

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