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Pavel Cenkl

Pavel works brings a life-long passion and professional experience to higher education teaching and leadership and is dedicated to progressive transdisciplinary approaches to contemporary environmental, social, and economic challenges.

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Research paper thumbnail of How can radical innovations in sustainability education regenerate the world? Lessons from Schumacher College

Entreprendre & Innover

Research paper thumbnail of Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics

Journal of Ecocriticism, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Place in the Northern Forest

Reading Place in the Northern Forest PAVEL CENKL A s I write this in early spring, outside the do... more Reading Place in the Northern Forest PAVEL CENKL A s I write this in early spring, outside the door of our home in north-ern Vermont the ground in the yard has started to give a little underfoot, and the snow has begun to recede up the moun-tain slopes, leaving visible ...

Research paper thumbnail of This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains 1784?1911 by Pavel Cenkl

The Journal of American Culture, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast

Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, a... more Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem and whose individual stories are closely linked to the region's cultural and environmental history. The fourteen engaging essays in "Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest" effectively explore the relationships among place, work, and community in this complex landscape. Together they serve as a stimulating introduction to the interdisciplinary study of this unique region. Each of the four sections views through a different lens the interconnections between place and people. The essayists in "Encounters" have their hiking boots on as they focus on personal encounters with flora and fauna of the region. The energizing accounts in "Teaching and Learning" question our assumptions about education and scholarship by proposing inv...

Research paper thumbnail of A New Ecological Model for Learning

Research paper thumbnail of Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest

Research paper thumbnail of Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape (review)

Southeastern Geographer, 2008

These subjects have been considered for decades by geographers too numerous to mention, and by no... more These subjects have been considered for decades by geographers too numerous to mention, and by non-geographers such as Andres Duany, a landscape architect who spoke volumes to geographers and planners in his book Suburban Nation (2000), and by ...

Research paper thumbnail of This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784–1911 . By Pavel Cenkl . (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 180. $34.95.)

The Journal of American Culture, Sep 1, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of How can radical innovations in sustainability education regenerate the world? Lessons from Schumacher College

Entreprendre & Innover

Research paper thumbnail of Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics

Journal of Ecocriticism, 2015

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Place in the Northern Forest

Reading Place in the Northern Forest PAVEL CENKL A s I write this in early spring, outside the do... more Reading Place in the Northern Forest PAVEL CENKL A s I write this in early spring, outside the door of our home in north-ern Vermont the ground in the yard has started to give a little underfoot, and the snow has begun to recede up the moun-tain slopes, leaving visible ...

Research paper thumbnail of This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains 1784?1911 by Pavel Cenkl

The Journal of American Culture, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast

Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, a... more Nearly 30 million acres of the Northern Forest stretch across New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. Within this broad area live roughly a million residents whose lives are intimately associated with the forest ecosystem and whose individual stories are closely linked to the region's cultural and environmental history. The fourteen engaging essays in "Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest" effectively explore the relationships among place, work, and community in this complex landscape. Together they serve as a stimulating introduction to the interdisciplinary study of this unique region. Each of the four sections views through a different lens the interconnections between place and people. The essayists in "Encounters" have their hiking boots on as they focus on personal encounters with flora and fauna of the region. The energizing accounts in "Teaching and Learning" question our assumptions about education and scholarship by proposing inv...

Research paper thumbnail of A New Ecological Model for Learning

Research paper thumbnail of Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest

Research paper thumbnail of Critical Regionalism: Connecting Politics and Culture in the American Landscape (review)

Southeastern Geographer, 2008

These subjects have been considered for decades by geographers too numerous to mention, and by no... more These subjects have been considered for decades by geographers too numerous to mention, and by non-geographers such as Andres Duany, a landscape architect who spoke volumes to geographers and planners in his book Suburban Nation (2000), and by ...

Research paper thumbnail of This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784–1911 . By Pavel Cenkl . (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. Pp. xxviii, 180. $34.95.)

The Journal of American Culture, Sep 1, 2007

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