Tree cultures: the place of trees and trees in their place.

Abstract: This book contains two part introductions (Chapter 1) and Chapter 10. It provides information on how trees influence and define the concept of place and how well a particular place is culturally recognized. Working trees, fellow trees, wild trees and gathered or protected trees are considered to be associated with dynamic protection and development politics that influence the value of the trees of modern world trees. The first part contains chapters 2 to 5, and the second part contains chapters 6 to 9. Chapters 2 and 3 discuss the power of symbolism in cultural architecture, which in the context of natural social relations has resulted in tree meaning and contribution of trees to non-human subjects. In chapter 4, we focus on various conceptual problems related to places, explain links to current topics in human geography, anthropology, landscape research, covering natural geographical relations, environmental discourse theory I will. Chapter 5 emphasizes the role of morality, in particular the ethics of the nature of trees, the interrelationship between agents and places. In the second part of the book, the conceptual topics described in Part 1 are proven by the experience of the four sites chosen according to many criteria. There are four places: Orchard (Chapter 6), Cemetery in the City (Chapter 7), Protective Forest on Abandoned Coal Mine Ruins (Chapter 8), City Plaza with Namiki (9th) There is. chapter). In the last chapter we will explain how the general principles apply to specific characteristics of different sites and show the complexity and possibilities of a new ethical approach interrelated with time issues.

Descriptors: consolation trees, conservation, ecotourism, environmental protection, ethics, forestry development, landscape, street trees, trees, urban areas, urban forestry, woody plants

In the early days of relationship between plants and plants I made a field of human geography. In 2002, Paul Klock and Owen Jones announced the tree culture instead of them: the place of trees and trees. Cloke and Jones are focusing on trees as a model of relationship between nature and society and considering non-human institutions, ethics and regional relationships as part of their research. Lesley Head and Jennifer Atchison reviewed the work in this field, including the social life of trees and trees, in article "Cultural Ecology: New Plant Geography of Humanity" in 2009 "Progress of Human Geography" Did. New research area: Human plant geography In this article we detail the current research between plant research and cultural geography research and ongoing research reasoning. However, scholars of plant research often do not integrate these studies into their research, they miss an important part of the interrelationship between trees and society.

The relationship between nature and culture is a hot spot of social science, but trees are rare. Trees provide shelter, fuel, food and utensils that have played an important role in human life since its early days, but their role in symbolic expression has been largely ignored. For example, trees are often used to express nationalistic emotions. The Germans widely use the image of trees and forests for the construction of the country, but the concept of "the center of the oak" was always the core of British identity concept. Common in the media are cruel trees and forests of passers-bys who have no doubt. In other cases, trees are used to represent paradise-like landscapes, symbolizing the idea of ​​protecting and concentrating nature. This book proposes a new theoretical idea of ​​treating trees as collective constituents of regional and cultural relations in relation to human relations.