Essays about: "Conservation Volunteers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the words Conservation Volunteers.

1. 1. Community awareness regarding the páramos: an exploratory study on Colombian eco-social organizations

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi

   Author : Mariana Caviativa Rojas; Marie Karunaratne Chathurika; [2023]
   Keywords : Rural and urban communities; eco-social work; environmental justice framework; eco-social approach; eco-social organizations; páramos; Colombia.;

   Abstract : This qualitative study explores how eco-social organizations in Colombia work with the communities to protect the páramos, and the issues affecting the páramos. Workers, volunteers, and advisors of the organizations were interviewed to examine the issues affecting the páramos and how they work with the communities to protect this ecosystem. READ MORE

3. 2. World Heritage in the Making : An ethnography of the cultural heritage conservation practices in İzmir, Türkiye

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

   Author : Ece Karakaş; [2023]
   Keywords : Cultural heritage; UNESCO; World Heritage List; heritage conservation; heritage anthropology; multiculturalism; İzmir Studies; Türkiye;

   Abstract : This thesis is an ethnographic research of the cultural heritage conservation practices in İzmir, focusing particularly on the heritage site Historical Port City of İzmir’s conservation on individual, local, and global levels from an anthropological point of view. With its ongoing inscription process to UNESCO’s World Heritage List, the study aims, first, to understand the motivation behind this inscription, the current conservation practices in the city that are undergone by individual and local actors, and to analyze the impact and connection between the individual, local and global efforts to protect İzmir’s multicultural and multilayered heritage. READ MORE

4. 3. CONVERSATIONS WITH CONSERVATIONISTS

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

   Author : Isabel de Jonge van Ellemeet; [2020]
   Keywords : Volunteer Tourism; Conservation Volunteers; Serious Leisure Perspective; Fulfilment Career; Social Responsibility.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This study aims to contribute towards the existing literature of volunteer tourism by evaluating the impacts that volunteering has on career progression. There exists a plethora of research on volunteer tourism, focusing on the various motivations to volunteer and the diverse positive and negative impacts that volunteering has on host communities. READ MORE

5. 4. The tangled roots of the sea : The complexities of mangrove conservation in Peninsular Malaysia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för öst- och sydöstasienstudier

   Author : Kristina Arnaudova; [2018]
   Keywords : Mangroves; conservation; New Environmental Paradigm; emotional affinity towards nature; Corporate Social Responsibility; Malaysia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis studies what triggers people’s environmental attitude using theories of the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) and emotional affinity towards nature. Having looked at the case of a nature park in Kuala Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia carrying out mangrove rehabilitation and conservation, I also aimed to investigate the institutional interrelations and how these combined with environmental attitudes to influence the management of the park. READ MORE

6. 5. HOP!: a PGIS and citizen science approach to monitoring the condition of upland paths

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Niamh Harty; [2018]
   Keywords : geography; GIS; Participatory GIS; Citizen Science; path surveys; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : This research project was inspired by the increase in popularity of hillwalking and the problem of the lack of monitoring and maintenance of upland paths which may lead to serious deterioration of those paths. Wicklow Mountains National Park (WMNP), just south of Dublin City in Ireland, has a large network of mostly informal upland paths. READ MORE