Essays about: "Mainstream conservation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Mainstream conservation.

1. 1. Economic development in a biodiversity hotspot: what is the jungle worth? : A case study of local understandings of forest use in North Sumatra

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Sydney Laewen; [2023]
   Keywords : Minor Field Study; Sustainable development; Economic development; Natural resource use; Biodiversity; Conservation; Discourse analysis;

   Abstract : Sustainable development as our joint global goal is consensus in the mainstream international arena, in the name of long-term well-being for all living creatures. However economic constraints often limit the choices available to local communities, forcing them to make trade-offs between immediate socioeconomic gains and the long-term sustainability of natural resources. READ MORE

3. 2. Why elephants are not irrelephant : A study of villagers’ perception and experiences of living near Burunge Wildlife Management Area

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Miljövetenskap

   Author : Sanna Syeda; Bjurling Fanny; [2023]
   Keywords : Elephants; Convivial conservation; Mainstream Conservation; Species Conservation; Human-Wildlife Conflicts; Tarangire and Burunge Wildlife Management Area.; Elefanter; Convivial Conservation; Mainstream Conservation; Artbevarande; Konflikter mellan människor och vilda djur; Tarangire och Burunge Wildlife Management Area;

   Abstract : One of the biggest challenges with today's conservation strategy has been the increase in human-wildlife conflicts in rural areas. Different strategies in conservation have been presented, such as mainstream conservation and convivial conservation, both with the same goal but different approaches when it comes to economic, social and environmental aspects. READ MORE

4. 3. Changing the Stories We Live By: Revolutionizing the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation Through Transformative Conservation

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Author : Tess Marie Burroughs; [2022]
   Keywords : Sustainable Development; Wildlife Conservation; Biodiversity Loss; Critical Discourse Analysis; Transformative Conservation;

   Abstract : As biodiversity continues to diminish worldwide, an interrogation of long-standing conservation discourse is needed to reformulate a new conservation rhetoric that confronts the socio-ecological complexities of the world and reorients the relationship between humans and nature. Using ecologically sensitive critical discourse analysis, this research investigates the dominant ideologies perpetuated within an iteration of mainstream American wildlife discourse and explores opportunities for transformative conservation alternatives. READ MORE

5. 4. Nature as a Political Enactment Within the Global Biodiversity Debate and a Plea for a Process-Inspired  Transition Governance

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

   Author : Pieter Vullers; [2020]
   Keywords : Sustainability Transformations; Process-Ontology; Science Studies; Sociology; Critical Policy and Discourse Studies; Global Biodiversity Governance;

   Abstract : A revolution is brewing within global biodiversity governance as attempts to govern and to deal with biodiversity loss have not led to any substantial results. The underlying drivers of biodiversity loss keep adding to the total ecological predicament which in turn sets in motion an epistemological paradigm shift (episteme) with a call for transformative change. READ MORE

6. 5. 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