Changing Perceptions of Nature

IAN CONVERY is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a director of the Lifescapes Project conservation charity. PETER DAVIS is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability. DR ARTHUR MACGREGOR, LVO is an Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at the Victoria and Albert Museum Research Institute, UK. Dr Christopher Donaldson is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural History and became Director of VCH Cumbria in 2024. Erwin van Maanen of EcoNatura is a (conservation) biologist, with a specific interest in mammalian carnivore ecology. IAN CONVERY is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a director of the Lifescapes Project conservation charity. MARIE ADDYMAN is an independent scholar whose writing and teaching reflects the interdisciplinary approach which is fundamental to her practice. While guest-lecturing on English literature and women's studies at various English universities, she has taught literature, history, and history of medicine for the Open University. OWEN T. NEVIN is Chief Executive Officer of the Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI), Adjunct Professor of Conservation Biology at CQUniversity Australia and Anniversary Visiting Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Cumbria PETER DAVIS is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability.

• Foreword - Martin HoldgateIntroduction - Ian Convery and Peter Davis'The Nomination of the Visible': William Turner's Practice of Natural History - Marie AddymanEarly European Perceptions of the Nature of Australia - Charles NelsonConserving Natural Heritage: Shifting Positions of Culture and Nature - Darrell Smith and Ian Convery and Andrew Ramsey and Viktor KouloumpisThree Birds of a Feather - Darwin, Wallace and Attenborough: An Unbroken Tradition of Finding Where the Wild Things Are - Richard MilnerOrganising, Naming and Ordering Nature - Gina DouglasOur 'Great Entail': Constructing the Cultural Value of the Lake District - Penny BradshawRenaissance Collecting and Understanding of the Natural World - Arthur MacGregorBotanical Collecting, Herbaria and the Understanding of Nature - Chiara NepiTaxidermy and the Representation of Nature - Hannah PaddonThe Significance of Natural History Collections in the 21st Century - Stephen HewittChanged Attitudes to Nature Reflected in the Transformation of Menageries to Zoos - Gordon McGregor ReidInterpretation in Botanic Gardens - Ghillean T. Prance and Peter DavisShifting Interpretations of the English Lake District - Christopher DonaldsonFacebook Nature: My Generation and Other Animals - Lucy McRobertVisual Narratives in Wildlife Film-making - Sophie DarlingtonA History of Half a Century of Wildlife Television and its Impact on Audiences - Keith ScholeyLandscape, Nature and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated Children's Literature - Paul A. RonckenLandscape, Nature and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated Children's Literature - Ian ConveryThe Public Perception of Protected Areas in the UK - Angus LunnConservation of Rare Species and Natural Heritage: the Wild and the Tame - Juliet Clutton-BrockOur Vanishing Natural Heritage and The Wildlife Trusts: a Century of Influence and Local Action for Nature and People - Tim SandsOur Vanishing Natural Heritage and The Wildlife Trusts: a Century of Influence and Local Action for Nature and People - Robert LambertA Champion of the Tiger's Cause - James ChampionAdventure, Nature and Commodification - Heather Prince and Chris LoynesDestination Nature: Wildlife and the Rise of Domestic Ecotourism in Britain, 1880-2015 - Robert LambertWild Places as Therapeutic Environments - Julie TaylorCitizen Science and the Perception of Nature - Ian Convery and Sarah Elmeligi and Samantha Finn and Owen NevinUsing Community-based Cultural Tourism to Enhance Nature Conservation in the Rupununi, Guyana - Jared BowersRepresenting Natural Heritage in Digital Space: from the National Museum of Natural History to Inuvialuit Living History - Kate HennessyUsing Community-based Cultural Tourism to Enhance Nature Conservation in the Rupununi, Guyana - Natasha LyonsOut of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: the Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness - Mike JeffriesRewilding: the Realisation and Reality of a New Challenge for Nature in the 21st Century - Erwin van van MaanenRewilding: the Realisation and Reality of a New Challenge for Nature in the 21st Century - Ian Convery

An extremely rich source of viewpoints and explorations of what nature means.