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IUCN- The World Conservation Union Founded in 1948 The World Conservation Union brings together States government agencies and a diverse range of non-governmental organisations in a unique world partnership over 800 members in all, spread across some 136 countries. As a Union IUCN seeks to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources to equitable and ecological sustainable. The World Conservation Union builds on the strengths of its members, Networks and partners to enhance their capacity and to support global alliances to safeguard natural resources at local, regional and glob...
Exploring sacred mountains around the world, this book examines whether bonding and reverence to a mountain is intrinsic to the mountain, constructed by people, or a mutual encounter. Chapters explore mountains in England, Scotland, Wales, Italy, Ireland, the Himalaya, Japan, Greece, USA, Asia and South America, and embrace the union of sky, landscape and people to examine the religious dynamics between human and non-human entities. This book takes as its starting point the fact that mountains physically mediate between land and sky and act as metaphors for bridges from one realm to another, recognising that mountains are relational and that landscapes form personal and group cosmologies. Th...
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Los textos reunidos en este libro expresan una preocupación permanente dentro de los profesores del Departamento de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, en particular de su especialización en teorías, métodos y técnicas de investigación social, en tormo a los problemas metodológicos propios. En dicha preocupación, que no se agota de ningún modo en su dimensión instrumental, convergen la trayectoria investigativa del grupo de docentes, como las búsquedas y desarrollos en la formación de investigadores sociales.
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