Essays about: "community-based conservation"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 32 essays containing the words community-based conservation.

  1. 11. Situating adscriptions of value on Nature's Contributions to People : The case of traditional farmers in San Pedro, Paraguay.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Martín Barranco Blasco; [2018]
    Keywords : Paraguay; farmers; ecosystem services; nature s contributions to people; traditional knowledge; soybeans; deforestation; biodiversity loss; community-based conservation;

    Abstract : This thesis focus on the unidimensional adscriptions of value behind industrial soybeans production in Paraguay. The thesis aims to present non-economic Nature’s Contributions to traditional farmers’ quality of life, the role of farmers’ traditional knowledge to display these contributions and the efficiency of such knowledge regarding high productive demands. READ MORE

  3. 12. Time preferences and community-based conservation: Insights from elephant patrolling efforts in Aras Napal, Indonesia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Helena Rydberg; [2018]
    Keywords : Indonesia; individual time preferences; social time preferences; patience; community-based conservation; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This study took place in an Indonesian village in Aras Napal, North Sumatra, which previously has been involved in an elephant patrolling conservation program to mitigate human-elephant conflicts and protect the neighboring Leuser National Park. The study examines the villager’s individual and social time preferences, particularly comparing those who were actively involved in the elephant patrolling unit and those who were not. READ MORE

  4. 13. Zero poaching and social sustainability in protected areas : a study of Chitwan National Park, Nepal

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Hitesh Pant; [2016]
    Keywords : zero poaching; fortress conservation; Chitwan; Gramsci; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Protected areas (PAs) embody a historical legacy of value contestation and human exclusion. While the rise of community-based conservation in the 1980s sought to reconfigure this mechanism by running a counter narrative arguing that biodiversity conservation and development were mutually reinforcing objectives, exclusionary PAs continue to maintain a strong position in the conservation discourse. READ MORE

  5. 14. Forest Conservation and the Hadzabe. An integrated approach in protecting biodiversity and cultural diversity. Case study: Carbon Tanzania.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Sabrina Fassbender; [2016]
    Keywords : Sustainable Development; Historical Ecology; Community-based forest Conservation; REDD ; Carbon offsetting; Biocultural Diversity; Hunter-gatherer communities; Tanzania.;

    Abstract : Preventing emissions from deforestation is propagated as an effective strategy to combat climate change. At the same time forest landscapes are habitat to the last remaining traditional societies of this planet. For a long time forest conservation programs neglected the role of these indigenous communities for forest landscapes. READ MORE

  6. 15. Community-based conservation in Peruvian Amazon. Attempts to save the red uakari of Loreto

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Amanda Berglund; [2016]
    Keywords : Amazon Rainforest; Collective action; Loreto; Peru Sustainable Development; Uakari;

    Abstract : Abstract. In Peru, the population of a very rare monkey species called the red uakari (Cacajao calvus ucayalii) lives in the Amazon rainforest in an area called Loreto. The natural resources of Loreto have been exploited due to large anthropogenic pressure which has affected the biodiversity. READ MORE