AT#650 - Travel to Rajasthan, India transcript

AT#650 - Travel to Rajasthan, India

Audio recording of a podcast episode from Amateur Traveler. This episode contains a discussion of travel ito the northern India state of Rajasthan.
Date: March 30, 2019
Creator: Christensen, Chris & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bergson, Materialization, and the Peculiar Nature of Space (open access)

Bergson, Materialization, and the Peculiar Nature of Space

This article shows how Bergson's notions of variable lived space and the dynamic character of physical matter could lead to theories of fractal dimension and theories of the creation and expansion of matter.
Date: 2018
Creator: Gunter, P. A. Y. (Pete Addison Y.), 1936-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educación, Ecoturismo y Conservación Biocultural en los Bosques en Miniatura Del Cabo de Hornos (open access)

Educación, Ecoturismo y Conservación Biocultural en los Bosques en Miniatura Del Cabo de Hornos

Article demonstrates that using Field Environmental Philosophy (FEP) methodology, inconspicuous species can be made visible and their ecological, ethical, aesthetic, and economic values can be recognized by citizens.
Date: September 12, 2020
Creator: Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-; Medina, Yanet & Massardo, Francisca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america (open access)

Biocultural homogenization: Exotism of the femenine landscape of latin america

Article discusses the importance of valuing an alternative, ecological, aesthetic and post-modern-exotic hermeneutic in viewing Latin America, and discusses the colonial impression of a "exotic" Latin America.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Castellanos, Angelina Paredes & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
America Losing its Religion? transcript

America Losing its Religion?

Audio recording of a news segment from News Radio KFB. This episode discusses results from the General Social Survey in relation to religion and spirituality.
Date: April 9, 2019
Creator: Mendonsa, Cristina & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sodium chloride accumulation in glycophyte plants with cyanobacterial symbionts (open access)

Sodium chloride accumulation in glycophyte plants with cyanobacterial symbionts

This article reports an apparently novel and taxonomically diverse grouping of plants that continuously maintain high tissue sodium contents and share the rare feature of possessing symbiotic cyanobacteria.
Date: October 11, 2017
Creator: Green, T. G. Allan; Sancho, Leopoldo G.; Pintado, Ana; Saco, Dolores; Martín, Soledad; Arróniz-Crespo, María et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dharmic Ecology for Mother Earth

Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental History of Dharmic Communities transcript

Environmental History of Dharmic Communities

Presentation for the Dallas Philosophers Forum. This presentation discusses the intertwining of environmentalism in the dharmic practices of traditional grass-roots rural communities such as Bishnois, Bhils, and Swadhyaya.
Date: January 8, 2019
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library
Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda (open access)

Negotiating local versus global needs in the International Long Term Ecological Research Network’s socio-ecological research agenda

This article describes the assessment of six long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) platforms through site visits, coupled with reflections and insights of the platform managers.
Date: October 5, 2018
Creator: Holzer, J. M.; Adamescu, M. C.; Bonet-García, F. J.; Díaz-Delgado, R.; Dick, J.; Grove, J. M. et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals (open access)

Potential Niche Expansion of the American Mink Invading a Remote Island Free of Nativepredatory Mammals

This article evaluates whether the lack of potential predators and competitors, together with a more diurnal and terrestrial prey, have resulted in the mink expanding its spatial and temporal niche on Navarino Island as compared to that in its native habitats,
Date: December 16, 2017
Creator: Crego, Ramiro D.; Jiménez, Jaime E. & Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability (open access)

Field Environmental Philosophy: A Biocultural Ethic Approach to Education and Ecotourism for Sustainability

This article proposes an educational methodology, called field environmental philosophy (FEP), which orients ecotourism practices to reconnect citizens and nature in order to contribute to local and global sustainability. FEP’s methodology is starting to be adapted in other world regions, such as Germany, Japan, and Mexico, to integrate education and ecotourism for sustainability.
Date: April 19, 2021
Creator: Tauro, Alejandra; Ojeda, Jaime; Caviness, Terrance; Moses, Kelli P.; Moreno-Terrazas, Ren; Wright, Travis et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World captions transcript

The Art of Non-Violence in a Violent World

Video recording containing audio of a podcast episode from Grim News. This episode includes a discussion on the principles of non-violence and its relationship with Jainism
Date: April 5, 2019
Creator: Sengupta, Hindol & Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Biocultural Dialogue between Thoreau and Taoist Thought: Rethinking Environmental Ethics, Nature, Spirituality and Place (open access)

A Biocultural Dialogue between Thoreau and Taoist Thought: Rethinking Environmental Ethics, Nature, Spirituality and Place

Article describes how a fundamental question of the 21st century centers around the role and place of humans in their environment. The authors assert that this paper aimed to discover and manifest the connection and similarities between the philosophy of Thoreau and the ancient worldview of Taoism.
Date: June 25, 2023
Creator: Thompson, Michael & Xu, Li
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library