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Global Case Studies: RELIGION AND NATURE CONSERVATION

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This book presents a broad array of global case studies exploring the interaction between religion and the conservation of nature, from the viewpoints of the religious practitioners themselves.

With conservation and religion often being championed as allies in the quest for a sustainable world where humans and nature flourish, this book provides a much-needed compendium of detailed examples where religion and conservation science have been brought together. Case studies cover a variety of religions, faiths and practices, including traditional, Indigenous, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto and Zoroastrianism. Importantly, this volume gives voice to the religious practitioners and adherents themselves. Beyond an exercise in anthropology, ethnobiology and comparative religion, the book is an applied work, seeking the answer to how in a world of nearly eight billion people, we might help our own species to prevent the extinction of life.

ESENCIA DE LA INTERPRETACIÓN DEL PATRIMONIO: UNA VISIÓN HOLÍSTICA PARA EXPERIMENTAR Y CONSERVAR EL PATRIMONIO NATURAL Y CULTURAL DE AMÉRICA LATINA

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This university textbook is the first of its kind, written for Latin American audiences. It uses a holistic interpretation vision that integrates tourism and natural and cultural heritage conservation all across the region. Its authors based the book in the literature across many fields, used tools designed by the PUP Global Heritage Consortium (which co-published the book), as well as its wide experience to offer new field applications. It includes many photographs and examples from throughout Latin America. The work establishes a new reference point both for people who seek a wide variety of academic references as well as professionals who desire new ways to apply heritage interpretation in the field.

THE FUTURE HAS OTHER PLANS
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Crisis has enveloped the more than 200,000 nationally and regionally protected natural and cultural heritage sites around the world. Heritage managers – those who manage natural sites such as national parks, wilderness areas, and biosphere reserves, as well as those who manage cultural sites including historic monuments, battlefields, heritage cities, and ancient rock art sites – face an urgent need to confront this crisis, and each day that they don’t, more of our planet’s common heritage disappears. Although heritage management and implementation suffer from a lack of money, time, personnel, information, and political will, The Future Has Other Plans argues that deeper causes to current problems lurk in the discipline itself. Drawing on decades of practical experience in global heritage management and case studies from around the world, Jon Kohl and Steve McCool provide an innovative solution for conserving these valuable protected areas. Merging interdisciplinary and evolving management paradigms, the authors introduce a new kind of holistic planning approach that integrates the practice of heritage management and conservation with operational realities.

INTEPRETIVE THEME WRITER'S FIELD GUIDE
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The interpretive theme is the most important sentence an interpreter inks on paper. Despite its centrality to thematic interpretation, no single work has dedicated itself entirely to the art and craft of strong theme writing until now. The Interpretive Theme Writer's Field Guidebuilds on Sam Ham's 30-year thematic interpretation research legacy. While leaving theory to his books, this pocket companion offers writers strong theme examples, worksheets, exercises, inspirational quotes, and technique highlights. With contributions from Sam Ham, Ted Cable, Shelton Johnson, and Clark Hancock, this Field Guide is useful at the desk, in the exhibit hall, or on the trail. It recognizes that teams, even communities, create heritage themes, and introduces the Interpretive Framework methodology to facilitate community-based theme writing.

Reframing sustainable tourism
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This book examines the need for a new way of describing sustainable tourism and also looks at the frameworks needed to rethink how to apply this to communities, private operators and protected area managers. It makes it clear that tourism is just one of many human activities that affects host communities. The work includes informative and provocative case studies with realistic applications. References included in the book will help graduate students formulate new hypotheses and suggest literature for them. Tools and techniques useful to tourism practitioners suggest innovative approaches to marketing, management and community development.

INTERPRETATION: MAKING A DIFFERENCE ON PURPOSE
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In the new edition of the international bestseller Environmental Interpretation, Sam H. Ham captures what has changed in our understanding of interpretation during the past two decades. Ham draws on recent advances in communication research to unveil a fresh and invigorating perspective that will lead interpreters to new and insightful pathways for making a difference on purpose through their work.

INTERPRETACION DEL PATRIMONIO CULTURAL

¿Es aplicable la interpretación ambiental y, en particular, la interpretación temática (inspirada en el trabajo de Sam Ham), al patrimonio cultural? Más específicamente, ¿Es aplicable al patrimonio arqueológico mexicano? Este volumen, compuesto por tres artículos introductorios y ocho ejemplos de aplicación, contestan con un rotundo “¡Sí!”. En México, la interpretación temática es relativamente reciente. Aún más reciente ha sido su incorporación al trabajo en los sitios arqueológicos que custodia el Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. Pero en los últimos años el grupo de académicos interesados en la estrategia creció, al punto en que surgió la necesidad de reunir a los colegas que la adoptaron tempranamente, para crear el volumen que el lector tiene hoy en sus manos. El libro presenta el desarrollo de una “interpretación temática a la mexicana”, que hoy llamamos “divulgación significativa”: se rastrean sus primeros pasos y aplicaciones; se ejemplifica su uso en educación patrimonial informal y formal; y se le vincula con los estudios de visitantes, de los que se incluyen casos pioneros en sitios arqueológicos. Creemos que el libro es pertinente para países en nuestro continente con condiciones parecidas a las mexicanas: patrimonios muy ricos que deben atenderse con presupuestos y personal limitados. Las lecciones aprendidas son transferibles a otros contextos, como indica la buena recepción que ha tenido la estrategia fuera de nuestro país.