- Unique 'graphic novel' format and short length will engage students immediately, including those with limited background knowledge. An efficient and accessible academic resource to illustrate the technical concepts, theories and frameworks of socio-ecological approaches. This new graphic approach to degree education is exciting and highly engaging, encouraging creativity that can deepen academic understanding. No other book introduces the complexities of interdisciplinarity and valuing nature in such an accessible way.
- The sections reflect a logical and natural progression from an initial introduction to meanings to the wider context. Approaches the concept in a simple, chronological and visual manner that sets it apart from other educational resources on ecology.
- The book contains a variety of pedagogical tools and orientation that help guide the reader through the book, offer further reading, jump between sections, and provide the opportunity to review what has been learned so far.
- The characters depicted in the book reflect the diversity of the student body, with BAME students included as well as different personalities.
- Ideal for undergraduates in the fields of ecology, human and physical geography, conservation science, environment social science and spatial planning. The materials work pedagogically for 1st Year (Supplementary and Specialised) and 2nd year (Core and Introductory). Particularly useful for natural scientists with limited training, but expectations to engage, in the critical social science dimensions of resource management.
- Secondary market among policy makers and practitioners either new to issues of valuing nature or those wishing to clarify or contextualise further their understanding.
Rob Fish is a social scientist and human geographer, based at the University of Kent. Rob has published widely on the social cultural and participatory dimensions of natural resource management and has played a prominent role in the elaboration of interdisciplinary approaches to the valuation of nature within environmental policy and decision making. He is a founding lead editor of the British Ecological Society's People and Nature: a journal of relational thinking.
Holly McKelvey is an illustrator and visual science communicator based in Lubeck, Germany, whose travels as well as her background in geology and ecology flavour her art on the relationship between humans and nature. Her work has frequently been published in the British Ecological Society's magazine The Niche, and she has collaborated with German Watch and PAN Germany, among others. She is also a founding editor and illustrator for Stonecrop Review, a literary magazine on urban nature.
Title: Valuing Nature: The Roots of Transformation
Author: McKelvey, Holly,Fish, Robert
ISBN: 9780367762650
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2021-11-22
Number of Pages: 144
Weight: 0.4401 kg
Rob Fish has reinvented the textbook! This bright, illustrated and accessible volume is no less rigorous in what it teaches for having a graphic novel style, than a traditional text. I love it, and it will keep students engaged with material in a way that academic literature doesn't always manage.
-- - Dr Neil J. Gostling, Lecturer in the Ecology and Evolution Research Theme, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
This is a brilliant and refreshing piece of academic literature, presenting the key themes of human ecology in a fun and organic way that keeps you engaged throughout, a far cry from the usual dense academic text. I wish I had this available at the beginning of my degree!
--Katie Hargrave-Smith, Environmental Social Sciences student, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK
So often now, as scientists, we are asked to frame nature in terms of 'resources' and 'value' it in terms of 'service' to human economies. In my humble opinion this only serves to entrench the fundamental schism we have generated between ourselves and our environment. Healing this separation wound, as this book helps to do, is not only profound at an individual level, but potentially holds the key to a truly sustainable future. Bring on the transformation!
-- Dr Kerrie Farrar, FRSB, in 'The Dinosaur on your Window Sill' Facebook Group
Rob Fish has reinvented the textbook! This bright, illustrated and accessible volume is no less rigorous in what it teaches for having a graphic novel style, than a traditional text. I love it, and it will keep students engaged with material in a way that academic literature doesn't always manage.
-- Dr Neil J. Gostling, Lecturer in the Ecology and Evolution Research Theme, School of Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK
This is a brilliant and refreshing piece of academic literature, presenting the key themes of human ecology in a fun and organic way that keeps you engaged throughout, a far cry from the usual dense academic text. I wish I had this available at the beginning of my degree!
--Katie Hargrave-Smith, Environmental Social Sciences student, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, UK
So often now, as scientists, we are asked to frame nature in terms of 'resources' and 'value' it in terms of 'service' to human economies. In my humble opinion this only serves to entrench the fundamental schism we have generated between ourselves and our environment. Healing this separation wound, as this book helps to do, is not only profound at an individual level, but potentially holds the key to a truly sustainable future. Bring on the transformation!
-- Dr Kerrie Farrar, FRSB, in 'The Dinosaur on your Window Sill' Facebook Group