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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Community Conservation"”.
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… M.S., Autumn 2006 Environmental Studies Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area Chairperson: Dr. Jill Belsky The Blackfoot Community Project is a partnership among the Blackfoot Challenge, a landowner-based watershed organization in the …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… M.S., Autumn 2006 Environmental Studies Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area Chairperson: Dr. Jill Belsky The Blackfoot Community Project is a partnership among the Blackfoot Challenge, a landowner-based watershed organization in the …
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Efficacy Of Constructed Wetlands Of Various Depths For Natural Amphibian Community Conservation
… many species of the natural ridge-top amphibian community were scarce in shallow constructed wetlands and absent in deep constructed wetlands. Additionally, due to constructed wetlands, dominant amphibian predator species, primarily associated with permanent water, Rana catesbeiana (American …
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An evaluation of the community conservation service at Tarangire and Lake Manyara national parks in Tanzania
Africa adopted the Yellowstone model of 'in situ' conservation, and established systems of national parks, which excluded people from living within these 'fortress parks'. Despite the strict protection - often through paramilitary-style enforcement - national parks in Africa are faced with …
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Change begets change: employing a change perspective to inform South Africa's coastal community conservation policy-praxis disjuncture
Contemporary biodiversity conservation is ‘wickedly complex'. This complexity stems from the need to address the diverse objectives of protecting biodiversity and enhancing social wellbeing. However, centralized and exclusionary conservation approaches are often ill-suited to tackling these coupled …
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Rangeland condition in the Tembe Traditional Area, Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… Manqakulani (which includes the Tshanini Community Conservation Area), Lulwane, Mntikini, Ndlondlweni, Ndovu and Sibonisweni. The main objective of this study was to evaluate the range condition and grazing capacity of the natural veld. A management plan for the Tshanni Community …
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Conservation and resilience to drought: a social-ecological perspective on conservation areas in Kenya's Southern Maasailand
… the complex and important ways in which community conservation areas in Kenya’s Southern Maasailand interplay with resilience to drought. Using a social-ecological systems perspective and a resilience lens, this thesis makes use of data from quantitative and qualitative methods, including …
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Nature conservation in changing socio-political conditions at Londolozi Private Game Reserve
Worldwide, nature conservation paradigms have changed markedly since the turn of the 19th century. These changes have affected the way that conservation has been practiced in the eastern lowveld of South Africa. At the same time sociopolitical conditions in South Africa have also undergone enormous …
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Coastal tourism development strategies In the town of st Lucia, KwaZulu-Natal: Conservation versus commercialisation
… strategies are a new phenomenon in the world of community development and community conservation. The development of tourism products as compared to their conservation, is an ongoing debate, which has been tackled by many tourism scholars. The management of natural and cultural environments is of …
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Soil conservation and the white agrarian environment in Colonial Zimbabwe, c. 1908-1980
… political ecology, settler culture and community conservation to examine soil conservation and the white agrarian environment in colonial Zimbabwe to evaluate to what extent players in government and the agricultural sector were conscious or concerned about preservation and conservation …
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COMMUNITY-BASED NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: GROUP CAPACITY, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSESSING SUCCESS
Grass-roots conservation efforts, implemented at the local level, have become increasingly popular within the U.S. and abroad. The conservation and natural resource literature has touted these initiatives as more effective when compared to top-down management efforts. As localities are given more …
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Potential past and future tree migration responses to climate change
… in response to modern climate change. Many conservation approaches aim to ameliorate the negative effects of environmental change within forest communities. However, conservation strategies assume the species composition of modern communities will exist with future climate change and rely on …
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Defining Biodiversity: A Local Assessment of the Tahuayo River, Peru Using Self-directed Photography
… recognition after three decades of advocacy and conservation work by resident communities. Local resource users who live a subsistence lifestyle possess sophisticated Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) that can be used to identify which constituents of biodiversity are culturally relevant. …
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Managerialism as a professionalising catalyst for the front-line practitioner community of New Zealand's Department of Conservation
… practitioners in New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC) to defend their marginalised work conventions and collegial culture. Symbolic interactionist analysis shows that profoundly personal values and beliefs connect vocationally motivated practitioners with their ‘mission’ (to conserve …
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Understanding the temporal variability of skin-associated bacterial communities for the conservation of threatened amphibian species
… amplicon sequencing to characterize bacterial community diversity. First, in a study examining the skin bacterial communities of two sympatric treefrog species (Agalychnis callidryas and Dendropsophus ebraccatus) at a single pond over multiple seasons and years, I found that annual, seasonal, …