“National Parks and Sanctuaries in Canada: Part II”
This 1936 article by M. B. Williams is for England’s The Animals’ Friend magazine and aims to kindle interest in and enthusiasm for the establishment of national parks and sanctuaries in England.
This 1936 article by M. B. Williams is for England’s The Animals’ Friend magazine and aims to kindle interest in and enthusiasm for the establishment of national parks and sanctuaries in England.
Arjaan Pellis, Annemiek Pas, and Martijn Duineveld build upon Niklas Luhmann’s Social Systems Theory to study the multidimensional nature of resource-based conflicts in and around Loisaba conservancy in Kenya.
Paolo Gruppuso explores the genealogy of Edenic narratives about the Pontine Marshes in Agro Pontino, Italy, and the imaginary of the Bonifica Integrale, or integral reclamation.
The authors investigate how land cover, land use, and protected area management affects communities around a forest reserve in the Philippines. They conclude that incorporating local livelihoods into forest conservation strategies results in a measure of sustainability and positively impacts the socioeconomic well-being of communities near the protected area.
The authors evaluate the attitudes and perceptions of local communities living in proximity to protected areas. To demonstrate the positive effects of protected areas providing employment or services to neighboring communities, they study the provision of a mobile health clinic in Kibale National Park in Uganda.
The authors assess the governance of the Hin Nam No National Protected Area in central Laos to understand the possibilities of supporting fruitful collaborative governance of protected areas.
The authors explore the case of a Privately Protected Area (PPA) in Chilean Patagonia to learn its impact on local residents. Based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews, they find that the park has been detrimental to local livelihoods, has disrupted systems of production, and has elicited a negative emotional response.