Cultural and Spiritual Significance of Nature in Protected Areas: Governance, Management and Policy

Cultural and spiritual significance of nature in protected and conserved areas : principles and practices in policy, management, and governance / Steve Brown and Bas Verschuuren -- Implications of the diversity of concepts and values of nature in the management and governance of protected and conserved areas / Josep-Maria Mallarach, Fabrizio Frascaroli, Will Tuladhar-Douglas, Jonathan Liljeblad, Radhika Borde, Edwin Bernbaum, and Bas Verschuuren -- Meaningful nature experiences : pathways for deepening connections between people and place / Matthew J. Zylstra -- Mainstream faith participation in protected and conserved areas / Martin Palmer -- Spiritual governance as an indigenous behavioural practice : implications for protected and conserved areas / John Studley and Peter Horsley -- Exploring the usefulness of nature/culture convergences in world heritage : the case of authenticity / Kristal Buckley -- Buddhism and the management of sacred sites for biodiversity / Will Tuladhar Douglas -- The significance of indigenous nature spirituality / Radhika Borde -- The cultural and spiritual significance of nature : involving the general public in the management and governance of protected areas / Edwin Bernbaum -- Connecting practice : defining new methods and strategies to further integrate natural and cultural heritage under the World Heritage Convention / Letícia Leitão, Leanna Wigboldus, Gwenaëlle Bourdin, Tim Badman, Zsuzsa Tolnay and Oscar Mthimkhulu -- Entangled landscapes : connecting conservation practices for naturecultures in the Mongolian Altai / Steve Brown and Bas Verschuuren -- Culture and nature : the case of the Ramsar Convention on wetlands / Dave Pritchard -- Developing guidelines for integrating cultural and spiritual values into the protected areas of Spain / Josep-Maria Mallarach, Marta Múgica, Alberto de Armas, and Eulàlia Comas -- Managing religious pilgrimage to sacred sites in Indian protected areas / Chantal Elkin, Sanjay Rattan, Soubadra Devy, and Ganesh Thyagarajan -- China's community fengshui forests : spiritual ecology and nature conservation / Chris Coggins, Jesse Minor, Bixia Chen, Yaoqi Zhang, Peter Tiso, James Lam, and Cem Gultekin -- Father forest : Batwa culture and the management of national parks in Uganda's Albertine Rift / Medard Twinamatsiko, Mark Infield, and Arthur Mugisha -- Kaio, kapwier, nepek, and nuk : human and non-human agency, and 'conservation' on Tanna, Vanuatu / James L. Flexner, Lamont Lindstrom, Francis Hickey, and Jacob Kapere -- Exploring spiritual and religious values in landscapes of production : lessons and examples from Italy / Fabrizio Frascaroli and Thora Fjeldsted -- The nature of attachment : an Australian experience / Steve Brown -- Cultural and spiritual significance of nature in protected and conserved areas : reflections on the situational and relational contexts of policy, management, and governance / Bas Verschuuren and Steve Brown