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Memory and the Origins of the Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur in Buenos Aires
A constructed park’s history clashes with how citizens see and use that space.
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Everyday Futures: Australia in the Age of Humans
The project Everyday Futures explores the role museums can play in helping to make sense of Australia’s experiences during a time of rapid planetary change and global disruption.
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"Privileging Consumptive Use: A Critique of Ideology, Power, and Discourse in the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation"
The authors base this critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) on its narrow stakeholder focus and limited ideological representation.
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"Spatio-temporal Visualisation and Data Exploration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge/Indigenous Knowledge"
The authors explore the implementation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous knowledge (IK) in mapping efforts, taking cues from previous spatio-temporal visualization work in the Geographic(al) Information System(s)/Science(s) GIS community, and from temporal depictions extant in existing cultural traditions.
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“Attitudes Towards Forest Elephant Conservation Around a Protected Area in Northern Congo”
Through a quantitative questionnaire survey conducted in villages around the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in northern Congo, the authors assess local attitudes towards conservation and elephant conservation in particular.
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"Economic Incentives, Perceptions and Compliance with Marine Turtle Egg Harvesting Regulation in Nicaragua"
The authors delve into the social reasons behind illegal turtle egg harvesting in the La Flor Wildlife Refuge in Nicaragua, based on a survey conducted among 180 households living in Ostional, the largest village in the vicinity of the Refuge.
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"Collaborative Governance of Protected Areas: Success Factors and Prospects for Hin Nam No National Protected Area, Central Laos"
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.
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"Beyond Contesting Limits: Land, Access, and Resistance at the Virunga National Park"
Stephan Hochleithner argues that multi-dimensional resistance to Virunga National Park’s conservation strategies ties in with general conflict dynamics in eastern DRC, while at the same time reproducing them within the realm of nature conservation, tightly interwoven with global dynamics.
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"Overfishing or Over Reacting? Management of Fisheries in the Pantanal Wetland, Brazil"
The article explores the complex socio-environmental relations of small-scale inland fishing by using the Pantanal wetland in Brazil as a case study and attempts to deconstruct environmental narratives behind top-down fishing management practices.
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Review of Traditional forest-related knowledge by John A. Parrotta and Ronald L. Trosper
Douglas Sheil reviews the book Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity by John A. Parrotta and Ronald L. Trosper.