Search Results - Spirituality

Spiritual values and ecosystem services of sacred groves in Karnataka, India by Ormsby, Alison A., Krishnan, Smitha

“…Research conducted in South India found that residents near sacred groves recognized and valued the ecosystem services provided by the groves, in addition to the spiritual values for which the groves are primarily conserved. …”
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Reviving the spiritual roots of agriculture for sustainability in farming and food systems: Lessons learned from peasant farming of Uttarakhand Hills in North-western India by Bisht, Ishwari Singh, Rana, Jai Chand

“…The lessons learned are presented here in this communication that are expected to help create a regenerative farming system mainly by reclaiming the spiritual roots of farming and food systems.…”
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Att planera för social hållbarhet i ekobyar by Saukko, Saara

“…It stands clear though, that culture and spirituality are closely connected and that the terms can serve as complements to each other. …”
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The future of smallholder farming in India: Some sustainability considerations by Bisht, Ishwari Singh, Rana, Jai Chand, Ahlawat, Sudhir Pal

“…Farmers traditionally grow diverse crops as polyculture, and agriculture is mainly organic/biodynamic with spirituality in food systems deeply ingrained. Job-driven out-migration of rural youths, the family labor force, and globalization of contemporary food choices under corporate industrial agriculture both adversely affect sustainability of traditional farming landscapes and compromise the nutrition and health of rural farming communities. …”
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Och sen då? En studie av gestaltningsprinciper för framtida alternativa begravningsplatser by Cartbo, Frida

Platser för kontemplation i vår nära utomhusmiljö by Ingerdal, Therese

“…The result shows on a surprisingly open attitude to the possibility of using this type of contemplationary places for mourning and contemplation. The feeling of spirituality that the nature can give many people is experienced as important in this context. …”
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Natur, hälsa & tro : en kunskapsöversikt till grund för skapandet av en hälsoträdgård med kristen profil för arbetstränande på Ralingsåsgården, Aneby by Alinder, Mirjam

Challenging the status quo of sustainability : permaculture fostering human-nature relations and re-enchanting nature in Uppsala by Syed, Owais

“…There are also views of spirituality, and nature being something more than the observable, reminding of the idea of enchantment. …”

“Vila vid vikens ängar” by Johansson, Hanna

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Den enkla naturen och andligheten by Gaunitz, Anne

“…The spiritual experiences environmental influence also has to do with how the pepole define spiritualism. …”
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Including cultural water requirements in environmental flow assessment: an example from the upper Ganga river, India by Lokgariwar, C., Chopra, R., Smakhtin, Vladimir U., Bharati, Luna, O'Keeffe, J.

“…This paper describes the first attempt to explicitly evaluate the flows required to maintain the cultural and spiritual activities in the upper Ganga River basin. …”
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The role of culture in transforming individuals, communities, and agrifood systems: the role of community dialogues of elders by BioHub TRUST, Chimonyo, Vimbayi G.P.

“…Traditional leaders, spiritual figures, women, youth, and local government authorities were actively involved to ensure inclusivity and legitimacy. …”
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Social aspects by WRENmedia

“…In northern Ghana, yams have cultural and spiritual significance and are only grown by men. Four researchers discuss the social significance of traditional food plants in Africa and Central America.…”
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Whose river is it?: an assessment of livelihood and cultural water flow requirements for the Karnali Basin by Sharma, Akriti, Karki, Emma, Eriyagama, Nishadi, Shrestha, Gitta, Jeuland, Marc, Bharati, Luna

“…Among the subsistence and spiritual requirements of local communities are uses for activities that include drinking, small-scale irrigation, domestic needs, fishing, and ceremonial usage. …”
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Att närma sig Boden by Arvidsson, Viktoria, Karlsson, Stina

“…Approaching Boden deals with the approaching of a city, both in a physical sense – along the road – and in a spiritual sense – in mind. The physical encounter with a city is represented by the experience of the road and its surroundings, while the spiritual encounter is represented by the idea of the city that we already have, or will get, in our minds. …”
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Punitive expeditions and divine revenge: oral and colonial histories of rebellion and Pacification in western Borneo, 1886–1902 by Wadley, R.L.

“…The weight that the oral accounts place on these two events is discussed in that light, with the Iban viewing their colonial experience as the struggle of spiritual forces allied with both the Iban and the European.…”
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Let us conserve and exchange seeds: celebrating traditional crop diversity of the Nepali lowlands by Vernooy, Ronnie, Shrestha, P., Gauchan, D., Bhusal, A., Gurung, R., Pudasaini, N., Community Seed Banks Association of Nepal

“…Apart from exchanging seeds of traditional crop varieties, they also shared stories about the socio-cultural, religious, spiritual, nutritional and medicinal values of their varieties. …”
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Mountain futures: pursuing innovative adaptations in coupled social–ecological systems by Grumbine, R. Edward, Xu, J.C.

“…They provide habitat for one-third of terrestrial species diversity, have irreplaceable cultural and spiritual worth to humans, and are a source of fresh water for nearly 2 billion people. …”
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Gravmonument i svenska parkmiljöer by Åberg, Hanna

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Integrated urban-rural development and common prosperity: Connotation, international experience and implementation path [in Chinese] by Chen, Kevin Z., Mao, Rui, Zhang, Yunfei

“…Firstly, the study illustrates that through integrated urban-rural development, it is possible to (1) reduce the income gap between urban and rural areas to promote the realization of common prosperity in the material dimension; (2) facilitate the equal supply of basic public services between urban and rural areas to promote the realization of common prosperity in the dimension of rights; (3) balance urban and rural development capabilities to promote the realization of common prosperity in the dimension of development opportunities; (4) coordinate the construction of urban-rural spiritual civilization to promote the realization of common prosperity in the spiritual dimension; (5) stimulate the integration between urban and rural ecological environment to promote the realization of common prosperity in the ecological dimension. …”
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