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Empowering Sustainability International Journal
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ISSN (Online) 2373-7565
Published by eScholarship

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The Role of Music in the Transition Towards a Culture of Sustainability
- Abstract: Music has a critical role to play in the transition towards a culture of sustainability. Music is essential to human survival and human development. Contrary to popular opinion, it is not an ‘add on;’ instead, it is the life-blood of culture and individual and collective identity and strengthens our bio-culture. Participatory music, in particular, may play a critical role in enabling human survival to climate change. Its ability to draw upon and illicit deep levels of both verbal and non-verbal imagery, symbols, emotions and social-knowledge-structures make it a vitalizing element for our current journey towards sustainability. Renewing our bio-culture is essential to connecting and living well together. To empower sustainability, we – researchers, program managers, activists, engineers, and others engaged with practical sustain-abilities – need to actively create music as an integral component of those practices from which a sustainable culture can emerge.This paper...
  PubDate: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000
Paradigm Shifts in Land Preservation and Conservation: The Essential
Modern Discourses
- Abstract: Mechanisms for protecting land in the United States transitioned from fee-simple government purchase to non-profit management through private ownership and conservation easements. Instead of creating large national parks as untouchable museums of ecology, the modern land protection paradigm channels public funding, creative partnerships, and an emerging understanding of the working landscape and complex ecological processes. On a macro scale, the paradigm shift seems to be successful: funds are raised and more land is being protected. However, management decisions are being dictated by complex and often tenuous interdisciplinary relationships. This paper examines the objectives and challenges faced by three integral players in the modern land protection paradigm: the academic, the executive director, and the land steward. Optimal land management is achieved through land stewards executing best management practices on protected land. These practices must be informed by research...
  PubDate: Thu, 1 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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