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Review of Ontology and closeness in human-nature relationships: Beyond dualisms, materialism and posthumanism by Neil H. Kessler

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  1. The article to which Kessler refers here is Martin (2007)

  2. See Noddings (1984)

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Gough, N. Review of Ontology and closeness in human-nature relationships: Beyond dualisms, materialism and posthumanism by Neil H. Kessler. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 22, 163–168 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-019-00035-5

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