Changing Perceptions of Nature

Ian Convery, Peter Davis

Essays investigating the idea of natural heritage and the ways in which it has changed over time.

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