Natural Missouri: Working With the Land
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
Napier Shelton offers a tour of notable natural sites in Missouri through the eyes of the people who work with them.
This film examines a radical policy implemented by Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa: to leave Yasuni National Park’s oil in the ground and let the industrialized countries make a contribution to the preservation of the planet’s “green lungs.”
Sudeep Jana Thing, Roy Jones, and Christina Birdsall Jones investigate the recent participatory turn in nature conservation policy and practices through an ethnographic investigation of the experiences of the marginalised Sonaha (indigenous people of the Bardia region) in relation to the conservation discourses, policies, and practices of the Bardia National Park authorities in the Nepalese lowland.
From Waterton-Glacier International Park to the European Alps, and Lake Titicaca in Peru and Bolivia, the essays in Parks, Peace, and Partnership provide illustrative examples of the challenges and new solutions that are emerging around the world.
The authors study the relationship between poverty and poaching using a sample of 173 self-admitted poachers dwelling in villages near Ruaha National Park in Tanzania.
The authors base this critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) on its narrow stakeholder focus and limited ideological representation.
The authors explore the on-the-ground reality of Burunge Wildlife Management Area (WMA), stressing the misrepresentation of conservation policies in WMAs at the expense of local communities.
Drawing on interviews with the managers of 56 internationally adjoining protected areas in 18 countries in the Americas, the study focuses on the link between land use change and environmental change, and on three adaptation strategies, namely diversification, pooling, and out-migration. It suggests that the impact of adaptation depends on the adaptation strategy chosen.