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"Practising Nature: A Phenomenological Rethinking of Environmentality in Natural Protected Areas in Ecuador and Spain"

Cortes-Vazquez, Jose A., and Esteban Ruiz-Ballesteros

Examining three natural protected areas in Ecuador and Spain, Cortes-Vazquez and Ruiz-Ballesteros offer a more nuanced understanding of the connection between different regulatory regimes and the formation of environmental subjects, using a phenomenological approach that places more emphasis on the agency of the people subjected to conservation.

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"Balancing Conservation and Livelihoods: A Study of Forest-dependent Communities in the Philippines"

Chechina, Mariya, Yannick Neveux, John R. Parkins, and Andreas Hamann

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.

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"Promoting Social Accountability for Equitable Fisheries Within Beach Management Units in Lake Victoria (Kenya)"

Etiegni, Christine Adhiambo, Michelle Kooy, and Kenneth Irvine

The study analyzes the political equity in fisherfolk organizations of Beach Management Units (BMUs) in Lake Victoria (Kenya). It uses this as a case study to investigate the issue of decentralization of resource management through co-management, and its relationship with political power.

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Exhibition chapter

Building Cinque Terre: A Grapevine Viewpoint (Italy) | A 360º Visual Journey

In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Sarah Elizabeth Yoho’s 360° video captures the process of constructing a dry stone wall in Italy’s Cinque Terre. In cooperation with community organization Tu Quoque Vernazza, it was filmed over nine days and is shown in time-lapse. The camera captures the grapevine’s point of view of Cinque Terre life.

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Exhibition chapter

Protecting Wild Spaces and Species (Sweden) | A 360º Visual Journey

Jonathan Carruthers Jones’s 360º video takes you on a journey with multiple hikers to the Arctic Circle, the Abisko National Park in northern Sweden, to understand what wilderness means to people. He concludes that even though it is a much-contested term—with supposedly lots of personal differences in opinions—people share a lot in common in their views of what wilderness is.

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