On Common Ground: Translocal Attachments and Transethnic Affiliations in Agha Shahid Ali’s and Arthur Sze’s Poetry of the American Southwest by Judith Rauscher

“…Engaging with landscapes of the American Southwest and elsewhere, and in particular with the natural environment, both poets reimagine the region as a site of translocal attachments and as the grounds for transethnic affiliations, especially with local Native American peoples. …”
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Évaluations d’incidences Natura 2000 et sports de nature : un virage paradigmatique dans la conduite d’une action publique ? by Ludovic Falaix

“…Does the reinforcement of the environmental constraints, which are implied by the decree n° 2010-365 related to the evaluation of the impact of Natura 2000, speed the Ministry of Sport up into a legitimacy crisis in so far as the analysis of the impact of the practice of outdoors activities on the natural environment, that is apprehended as a coercion means to contain the spontaneous development of outdoors sports, does not come under the responsibility of the Ministry of Sports ?…”
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The Role of Soil pH in Plant Nutrition and Soil Remediation by Dora Neina

“…In the natural environment, soil pH has an enormous influence on soil biogeochemical processes. …”
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Des esclaves et des bêtes : fables de la sauvagerie en Amérique dans Letters from an American Farmer, de St John de Crèvecoeur by Agnès Derail-Imbert

“…The historical naturalist discourse, which serves as an epistemological framework to the narrator of Crèvecœur’s Letters from an American Farmer, draws upon the observation of local animals in order to praise a society of freedom, in which the American farmer’s autonomy depends on the harmonious relationship with his natural environment. This idealized vision is shattered by the horror of slavery which prompts the narrator to conclude that civilization is only a state of nature where man is “an animal of prey” ready to enslave others. …”
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Les territoires du tramway moderne : de la ligne à la ville durable by Jacques Stambouli

“…This article attempts to address this question through the use of a theoretical model, which situates the economic transport system within three contexts: the larger economic environment, the social environment and the natural environment. A new tramway line constitutes a new supply within the economic transport system of an urban area and this supply in turn produces potential effects within that system and its three environments. …”
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Changement climatique. Sur les cartes et les narrations by Elena Bougleux

“…The paper describes examples of spatial change representations developed by Aboriginal communities who live in strict coupling with their natural environment. It focuses on the area of the Northern Territory of Australia which faces a condition of long-lasting coexistence with altered tides regimes and massive land degradation due to large wildfires. …”
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The Development of Interim Measures Procedure in Cases Against Poland Before CJEU by Cieśliński Aleksander

“…The article focuses on two sensitive areas where judicial intervention has proved necessary, the protection of the natural environment and ensuring the rule of law, especially in the operation of the national judiciary. …”
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Etyczny wymiar myślenia i działania ekologicznego w edukacji wczesnoszkolnej by Elżbieta Buchcic, Ilona Żeber–Dzikowska

“…The school should be more involved in the protection of the natural environment, mainly by shaping truly responsible attitudes. …”
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The Debate Concerning Creation in Relation to Ecology by Sławomir Śledziewski

“…Some authors tried to accuse Christianity that the theology of creation is responsible for the crisis of the natural environment. Because of this accusation, the science of creation had to take a stand on the issue of ecology. …”
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Protected areas for environmental sustainability in Nigeria by OI Imasuen, JN Oshodi, TUS Onyeobi

“…Attempt was then made to determine if the country has lost its bearings with regards to the role of cultural heritage and the natural environment. In this respect, comparisons were made between the modern cities/towns and the old ones in Nigeria. …”
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Urbino, ou l’histoire des relations de coévolution entre un établissement humain et son milieu naturel by Roberta Morelli

“…This article hypothesizes that rethinking the relationship to the Earth’s resources means both reevaluating the interdependence between anthropogenic action and the natural environment, as well as identifying the necessary conditions for the interaction of the material and immaterial dimensions of the notion of resource. …”
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Géohistoire environnementale : contours sémantiques et conceptuels. Discussions sur les héritages et patrimoines reconnus aux zones humides fluviales by Delphine Gramond

“…The recent strategies of management of wetlands, aiming to maintenance or to the reconquest of these ecosystems, focus on the ecosystemic functions - translated into terms of ecosystems services according to the Millenium Ecosystem Assesment conceptual Framework - on the one hand, and by underlining more and more strongly on the other hand the values, in particular the heritage values, that we can recognize to them; this approach, broadly utilitarian, asks the question of the natural environment readjustement potentiality and de facto requires to interpret their(s) “trajectories” put rhythm into by biophysics and humans dynamics, which have temporalities and spatialities quite complex and intricate. …”
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HOABINHIAN IN VIETNAM AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES FROM 20,000 TO 7,000 YEARS BP by Khac Su Nguyen

“…The research results have identified a number of key economic characteristics of Hoa Binh cultural residents and evaluated the effectiveness of human methods of finding and gathering food under the fluctuations of the natural environment during the late Pleistocene to early Holocene in northern Vietnam. …”
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Model of valorization of soils under viewpoint of their potential resistance against some selected contaminants: (based on the author’s PhD thesis) by Jan Sandner

“…The progressing process of industrialization poses a greater and greater threat to the natural environment, especially agricultural land. To determine the balance of this environment, it is necessary to study the impact of these pollutants and to determine the so-called This paper tries to solve the problems of impact assessment by creating the so-called environmental algorithm, in which all the basic components of the soil environment are taken into account, for the simulation of pollutant emissions. …”
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INTERVIEW WITH PROF. NICO NORMAN KOOPMAN by M. Laubscher

“…His research focuses on themes such as inalienable dignity, healing reconciliation, embracive justice, responsible freedom, equality, as well as the reciprocal and transformative impact of universities on various spheres of society, including politics, economics, the natural environment, civil society, and public opinion-formation. …”
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Wydarzenia i ludzie początków prawnej ochrony przyrody w Polsce by Antoni Skowroński

“…If the history is the best life’s teacher, then maybe it is worth to use this experienced and instructive legacy of polish scientists and initiatives, which were taken for rescuing and creating the natural environment. This history lesson might teach us the correct organizing, management and environmental protection.…”
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Le monde romain et l’histoire environnementale. Perspectives et enjeux face à une crise écologique globale by Marguerite Ronin

“…This article further argues that the Roman legal model, still existent in a good part of the juristic solutions applied to the management of the natural environment in many countries throughout the world, needs to be investigated in its historical dimension and some aspects of it revisited.…”
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Protected areas for environmental sustainability in Nigeria by OI Imasuen, JN Oshodi, TUS Onyeobi

“…Attempt was then made to determine if the country has lost its bearings with regards to the role of cultural heritage and the natural environment. In this respect, comparisons were made between the modern cities/towns and the old ones in Nigeria. …”
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Artificial-Intelligence-Based Investigation on Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Changes in Response to Population Growth in South Punjab, Pakistan by Tanweer Abbas, Muhammad Shoaib, Raffaele Albano, Muhammad Azhar Inam Baig, Irfan Ali, Hafiz Umar Farid, Muhammad Usman Ali

“…Land use and land cover (LULC) changes are significantly impacting the natural environment. Human activities and population growth are negatively impacting the natural environment. …”
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La catastrophe d’AZF by Karim Lahiani

“…The axiological transformation was initially intended to be radical : ‘reconciliation’ with the site through health and the emergence of the Cancéropôle, a large, wooded campus that reconnects with the natural environment of the River Garonne. However, twenty years after the accident, blockages, the relative halt to the initial project, the traces of the accident voluntarily or involuntarily preserved, and the observed fragmentation of the territory bear witness to a diminished desire to partake in a common project. …”
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