The creation of a sense of place has emerged as a goal of many community development
initiatives. However, little thought has been given to the role of physical spaces in the …

The concept and values of wilderness, along with the practice of wilderness preservation,
have been under attack for the past several decades. In Rethinking Wilderness, Mark Woods …

Leave No Trace (LNT) has become the official education and outreach policy for managing
recreational use in parks and wilderness areas throughout the United States. It is based on …

The dualism of nature/culture widely present within Western society at large is out of step
with an increasingly urbanising world. Building on previous discussions of nature/culture …

Abstract Kee** It Wild 2 is an interagency strategy to monitor trends in selected attributes
of wilderness character based on lessons learned from 15 years of develo** and …

The received wilderness idea of nature as untrammelled by human beings has been
accused of assuming an untenable human/nature dualism which denies the Darwinian fact …

Leave No Trace (LNT) is a United States government educational program guiding outdoor
recreationist behavior on public lands. The program consists of seven principles imploring …

Mounting evidence shows that the disconnection between humans and nature due to the
advances of the modern world have caused detrimental effects on human health and …

This article investigates, theoretically and empirically, the proposition that beauty—I consider
experiences of beautiful places in the natural world in particular—can contribute to the …

Wild places are rich with meaning. This runs contrary to accounts of vast undeveloped
regions like the Arctic as being devoid of meaning (and thus open for—or even in need of …