Nature and culture are often described as opposites, but at the same time Nature is often de-scribed as culture and past. This essay examines how Nature and the past are culture. I study how 51 people make shifting distinctions between Nature and the past in relation to culture, the present and the future. By using the concept of Orientation of Sarah Ahmed I analyze how the informants direct themselves against Nature, past and culture through a questionnaire, ob-servations and walk-alongs. I discuss how their ideas about Nature and the past differ with their different starting points and are shaped through their physical meetings with them.

Nature and culture are often described as opposites, but at the same time Nature is often de-scribed as culture and past. This essay examines how Nature and the past are culture. I study how 51 people make shifting distinctions between Nature and the past in relation to culture, the present and the future. By using the concept of Orientation of Sarah Ahmed I analyze how the informants direct themselves against Nature, past and culture through a questionnaire, ob-servations and walk-alongs. I discuss how their ideas about Nature and the past differ with their different starting points and are shaped through their physical meetings with them.

Increased interest in Nature tourism may be what saves small and dying villages, like Borgsjo? in the county of Va?sterbotten in northern Sweden, from disappearing. The nearly untouched Nature in these areas is in many cases an unused resource, since true wildlife experiences are sought by many travelers. The purpose with this report is to investigate if Borgsjo? has the potential and abilities to become a destination for Nature tourists, and how this should be done to avoid negative effects on Nature, wildlife and culture.

AimThe aim of this study is to examine students' previous experiences of stay in the Nature and their experiences of Nature in the context of teaching situations in friluftsliv at GIH. It also aims to elucidate how the teaching of friluftsliv at GIH affects their former interpretation about Nature. The questions of the study are: What past experiences of stay in the Nature elucidate GIH-students? Have the students approach to Nature changed according to the education? If yes ? how? What affects students' perception of Nature? MethodTo answer the questions, a quantitative approach (questionnaire survey) and qualitative methods (interview study) was used. The qualitative method is based on phenomenology and hermeneutics.

In Nature settings people often experience positive emotions. Litterature and theories about the positive effect of Nature on humans are largely based upon visual impressions and aesthetic preference. The purpose of the present study is to examine how visually impaired individuals that lack visual impressions experience Nature. The background is about what it means to be visually impaired and what it is like to be visually impaired in a Nature setting, followed by a presentation of the five human senses and about stimulation of senses in healing gardens. That is followed by theories about the health promoting effect of Nature, about why Nature and therapeutic gardens make people feel good. After that theories about experiences and relations with settings are presented.

The attitudes towards Nature conservation in forestry are based on the individual forest owner. The theme of the interviews is the opinion on Nature conservation in forestry. The purpose of this study is to identify if there is any difference in attitude to Nature conservation in forestry according to the age of the forest owner. The study discusses different factors that affect the private forest owners consideration of Nature conservation and give an insight in different generations attitude to Nature conservation. Other topics that are discussed is if future change of generation will change the consideration of Nature conservation in Swedish forestry and what is needed to enhance the interest in Nature conservation among forest owners.This study is the result of interviews with a number of forest owners in the county of Uppsala, Sweden.

Today many children have limited experiences with the outdoors or Nature. In most suburbs where people originate from many countries and have various ways of understanding Nature is it perhaps in preschool that several children for the first time experience Nature.This survey is qualitative and the main research methods are participant observations and interviews. The theories used in this study are mainly based on the thoughts of Dewey and Vygotskij as well as on ideas from outdoor education and different ways or ideas of understanding Nature.The purpose with this study is to make clear in what ways Nature is used by the teachers in preschool activities and how this work is done in preschools in multicultural suburbs. Questions at issue are: What way of understanding Nature are the teachers trying to convey to the children? How is Nature used in the ordinary outdoor activities by the preschool teachers? What are the teachers experiences of success and problems in this work?The conclusion is that Nature is used in preschool activities in many ways.

The lily pad creatures arose out of my childhood memories of Nature. This project has been an ongoing investigation of a workprocess as well as an exploration of my own sense of artistic idiom. I wanted to develop my knowledge in pattern design and focus on the artistic expression. I want the pattern to invite participation in storytelling in the same way that Nature has inspired me..

The purpose of the research is to find out how the teacher of the pre-school looks at the value of the Nature Pre-school. To get an understanding of what the Nature pre-school enviorment can bring, we are talking about learning, knowledge, and experience combined with the everyday lessons learned from the natural world. The research is a stepping stone on the pre-school teacher?s thoughts and reflections of what a Nature pre-school is. This is grounded in a view of how having options for alternative schools lead to wider research, and all conclusions where formed after multiple interviews and analysis.The results showed that the teachers involved are very positive to the Nature pre-school environment and learning process.

Sweden has had laws protecting Nature for about a hundred years. In this paper the views of Nature and the values that serve as a rationale for protective measures are analyzed as results of a social process characterized by the dialectic relationship between institutions and discourse. Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is used to study this relationship and the discursive practices used by institutions, which reproduce or reshape views of Nature that define the relationship between society and Nature. Institutional design contributes to shaping discourse in the field of Nature protection, while being originally shaped by discourse. In Sweden, the national park is an institution that reproduces a view of Nature as the wild and untamed opposite of society, and the natural reserves reproduce a view of Nature as holder of a multi-faceted set of values intertwined with society.

This master thesis is made in co-operation with the Department of Forest Management and Products at the Swedish University of Agriculture in Uppsala and the Forestry Association in Stockholm. The purpose of the Master thesis was to describe how pre-schools in Sweden use forests and green areas, and to understand how different factors can affect the use of the Nature. The purpose of the interviews was to create a picture of attitudes and routines of the pre-schools, in the matter of visiting the Nature. The thesis is built on interviews where fifteen pre-schools in five large cities around Sweden participated. Among these pre-schools, five of them worked with special focus on Nature, while the other ten did not have any particular focus connected to their activity.

The purpose of this essay is to investigate and assess, with Clausewitz?s theory as thebackground, how different military theorists interpret and relate to the Nature of war.This essay illustrates the state of research into Clausewitz?s philosophical influences.Clausewitz?s theory of the Nature of war is subjected to a qualitative text analysis that is followedby a critique of other military theorists interpretations of his theory. Subsequently a descriptive,comparative qualitative text analysis is performed where the factors identified by Clausewitz asbeing part of the Nature of war (?rational thought?, ?passion? and ?chance?) are used as a meansto interpret and assess how other military theorists relate to Clausewitz theory. This essay ismainly founded on analysis of the works of Jomini, Delbrück, Fuller, Liddell Hart, Handel,Roxborough, van Creveld and Keegan.

Nature and garden have always had meaning in human's life and succesfully seen as having health giving effects. Health is a state of equilibrium between physical, psychological, social and spiritual well-being. The individual's health is depending of how the society looks and how the individual manages to live her life in it. Stress is one of our time's large public health problems and leads in some cases to burned out syndrome. Stay in Nature gives recovery according to theories of environmental psychology.

AbstractThe purpose of my study is to examine how preschool children experience Nature and how the educationalists at the preschool can make Nature more exciting and support the children?s personal growth. I have also studied what the educationalists of the preschool do and what they can do to make Nature more interesting and playful for the children. Observations and interviews have been conducted at a preschool in a small town. The preschool is situated close to Nature, that is, close to a small forested area.

In metropolitan areas where the exploitation pressure increases, also the importance to point out Nature areas grows, both for the sake of outdoor life and for biodiversity conservation. Since Nature conservancy and spatial planning constitute two different parts of the municipalities land use control, a case study has been carried out in two municipalities in the Stockholm region, Huddinge and Järfälla. Both these municipalities have protected about one third of their land and today there are plans to repeal parts of the reserves to enable exploitation. This thesis shows ? from the theoretical concept of sustainable development ? officials, politicians and non-governmental organizations perspectives on questions concerning land use together with the work with Nature reserves and repeals.