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Author: Vasant K. Saberwal Publisher: Orient Blackswan ISBN: 9788125019800 Category : Human ecology Languages : en Pages : 166
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The ideology of conservation in India today faces a crisis. Nature lovers, photographers, tourists continue to flock to the National Parks, hoping to see tigers in Ranthambor, lions in the Gir forests, and rare birds in Bharatpur. But smugglers and poachers, supported by politicians and business interests, sheltered by local communities, raid the protected forests for valuable exports. This tract traces the roots of such problems to the very ideology of conservation in India, and discusses its historical and conceptual basis.
Author: Vasant K. Saberwal Publisher: Orient Blackswan ISBN: 9788125019800 Category : Human ecology Languages : en Pages : 166
Book Description
The ideology of conservation in India today faces a crisis. Nature lovers, photographers, tourists continue to flock to the National Parks, hoping to see tigers in Ranthambor, lions in the Gir forests, and rare birds in Bharatpur. But smugglers and poachers, supported by politicians and business interests, sheltered by local communities, raid the protected forests for valuable exports. This tract traces the roots of such problems to the very ideology of conservation in India, and discusses its historical and conceptual basis.
Author: Katrina Brandon Publisher: Island Press ISBN: 9781597269186 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 540
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Using the experience of the Parks in Peril program -- a wide-ranging project instituted by The Nature Conservancy and its partner organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean to foster better park management -- this book presents a broad analysis of current trends in park management and the implications for biodiversity conservation. It examines the context of current park management and challenges many commonly held views from social, political, and ecological perspectives. The book argues that: biodiversity conservation is inherently political sustainable use has limitations as a primary tool for biodiversity conservation effective park protection requires understanding the social context at varying scales of analysis actions to protect parks need a level of conceptual rigor that has been absent from recent programs built around slogans and stereotypesNine case studies highlight the interaction of ecosystems, local peoples, and policy in park management, and describe the context of field-based conservation from the perspective of those actually implementing the programs. Parks in Peril builds from the case studies and specific park-level concerns to a synthesis of findings from the sites. The editors draw on the case studies to challenge popular conceptions about parks and describe future directions that can ensure long-term biodiversity conservation.Throughout, contributors argue that protected areas are extremely important for the protection of biodiversity, yet such areas cannot be expected to serve as the sole means of biodiversity conservation. Requiring them to carry the entire burden of conservation is a recipe for ecological and social disaster.
Author: Julie Dunlap Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing ISBN: 1938486013 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 104
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Growing up on a Connecticut farm in the 1800s, Frederick Olmsted loved roaming the outdoors. A contest to design the nation’s first city park opened new doors for Olmsted when his winning design became New York’s Central Park, just one of Olmsted's ideas that changed our nation's cities. Award-winning author Julie Dunlap brings Olmsted to life in this wonderful biography.
Author: Jeniffer Aleman-Zometa Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Urban nature parks have the potential to connect urbanites with nature and also to serve as habitat for wildlife. Today over 50% of the world's population lives in cities so urban nature parks are where people will most often interact with nature. Urban green spaces provide habitat for migratory bird species and serve as linkage habitats between larger open spaces. At the same time ecological literature shows that humans can negatively impact wildlife, from direct trampling of organisms to indirect effects from noise or the mere presence of humans. Park planners need more guidance on how to design nature parks meant for conservation and for people to enjoy biodiversity. More information is needed about how people and wildlife use urban nature parks currently to inform future planning. I studied three former brownfields in Los Angeles that were transformed into urban nature parks. At each park, I studied the primary activities and amenities that people were using. I conducted bird surveys at each park and collected abundance and species data. Finally, I took a closer look at one of the parks to better understand how both people and birds were using particular park features. This study shows that certain park features are highly used by both people and wildlife. For example, having walkways with bushes and trees on both sides yields high use by both people and birds. But other park features have tradeoffs. People heavily use lawns at parks however lawn area is negatively correlated with bird abundance, thus balancing lawn with shrubs and trees is important. Also, shrubs seem to be just as important as trees for birds and this relationship between trees and birds needs more study in southern California urban nature parks.
Author: Maria Sapignoli Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 303139268X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 128
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This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement. We examine what has become known as the” parks versus people” debate, also known as the “new conservation debate,” which has pitted indigenous and other local people against nation states and social scientists against ecologists and conservationists for the past several decades. Aiming to promote biodiversity conservation and habitat preservation, some biologists, park planners, and conservation organizations have recommended that indigenous and other people should be removed from protected areas. Local people, for their part, have argued that residents of the areas that were turned into protected areas, national parks, game reserves and monuments had managed them in productive ways for generations and that they should have the right to remain there and to use natural resources as long as they do so sustainably. This position is often supported by indigenous rights organizations and social scientists, especially anthropologists. There are also some conservation-oriented NGOs that have policies involving a more human rights-oriented approach aimed at poverty alleviation, sustainable development, and social justice. The book discusses biodiversity conservation, indigenous peoples (those who are ethnic minorities and who are often marginalized politically), and protected areas, those categories of land set aside by nation-states that have various kinds of rules about land use and residence. The focus initially is on case studies from protected areas in the United States including Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite National Park, and Glacier National Park and on national monuments and historical parks where resettlement took place. We then consider issues of coercive conservation in southern Africa, including Hwange National Park (Zimbabwe), the Central Kalahari Game Reserve (Botswana), Etosha National Park, and Bwabwata National Park (Namibia), and Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park (South Africa and Botswana). All of these cases involved involuntary resettlement at the hands of the governments. In the book we consider some of the social impacts of conservation-forced resettlement (CfR), many of which tend to be negative. After that, we assess some of the strategies employed by indigenous peoples in their efforts to recover rights of access to protected areas and the cultural and natural resources that they contain. Examples are drawn from cases in Asia, Africa, and South America. Conclusions are provided regarding the ethics of conservation-related resettlement and some of the best practices that could be followed, particularly with regard to indigenous peoples.
Author: John Sheail Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135051267 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 360
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National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed. The book celebrates the deserved attractiveness of the parks as wilderness or 'spectacle' to millions of visitors, but also emphasises how there was nothing inevitable, self-sustaining or without cost in their magnificence and accessibility. Those early parks were a powerful unifying force as national 'playgrounds', especially as motor transport democratised their use. However they also provoked bitter conflict in their dispossession of local communities and perhaps deliberate segregation of people from scenery and wildlife. That first century of national parks, which concluded with the significant break of the Second World War and the subsequent development of more international approaches to conservation, left an uncertain legacy. It was a fragile foundation from which to build what became an integral part of today's conservation movement.
Author: Vasant K. Saberwal
Author: Vasant K. Saberwal
Author: Texas
Author: Saberwal Vasant
Author: Katrina Brandon
Author: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department
Author: Julie Dunlap
Author: United Nations Environment Programme
Author: Jeniffer Aleman-Zometa
Author: Maria Sapignoli
Author: John Sheail