Plural nature(s): an overview of their sociocultural construction

Alves, Fátima; Vidal, Diogo Guedes

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Plural nature(s): an overview of their sociocultural construction

2023-12-20Journal article

datacite.subject.fos	Ciências Sociais
datacite.subject.fos	Ciências Sociais::Sociologia
datacite.subject.fos	Ciências Sociais::Outras Ciências Sociais
datacite.subject.sdg	11:Cidades e Comunidades Sustentáveis
dc.contributor.author	Alves, Fátima
dc.contributor.author	Vidal, Diogo Guedes
dc.date.accessioned	2025-10-14T13:58:01Z
dc.date.available	2025-10-14T13:58:01Z
dc.date.issued	2023-12-20
dc.description.abstract	The social construction of nature aims to emphasise that the concept of nature has multiple meanings that vary in different socio-cultural contexts. This underlines the multiple ways in which both structures and individuals understand, explain, and engage with nature and the environment. Consequently, nature and cultures/societies are not separate entities, but are intertwined in complex and interdependent relationships. Therefore, nature is the result of human perceptions and social practices. The way we interact with, perceive, interpret, and value nature is influenced by a given society’s history and sociocultural factors. This intimate relationship is closely linked to powerknowledge and influence relations. Those with more power can impose a particular vision of, and relationship with, nature, resulting in inequalities and potentially harmful relations that can explain the environmental degradation that the contemporary world faces globally, despite its expression in particular contexts, thus configuring plural natures.	eng
dc.description.sponsorship	This work was developed in the scope of the “PHOENIX: the rise of citizens voices for a greener Europe” project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programmed under grant agreement NO. 101037328. The authors also acknowledge the support of the R&D Unit Centre for Functional Ecology—Science for People & the Planet (CFE), with reference UIDB/04004/2020, financed by FCT/MCTES through national funds (PIDDAC) and the Associate Laboratory TERRA, with reference LA/P/0092/2020. Fátima Alves also thanks CAPES for funding the project with reference 88887.832797/2023-00 (CAPES-PRINT) from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) within the scope of the Institutional Internationalization Program (Notice nº41/2017).
dc.identifier.citation	Alves, F., & Vidal, D. G. (2023). Plural Nature(s): An overview of their sociocultural construction. Encyclopedia, 4(1), Artigo 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia4010001
dc.identifier.doi	10.3390/encyclopedia4010001
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/20364
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.publisher	MDPI
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dc.relation.ispartofseries	Section Social Sciences
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Social constructionism
dc.subject	Plurality
dc.subject	Nature
dc.title	Plural nature(s): an overview of their sociocultural construction	eng
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