Social Change and Conservation
Author: Kléber Bertrand Ghimire
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781853834103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Social Change and Conservation
Author: Krishna B. Ghimire
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 1134045107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book discusses protected areas and conservation policies, critically reviewing protected areas management and the concepts of conservation. Drawing on case studies form North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, it shows how they affected local people - their customary rights, livelihoods, well-being and social cohesion. The book argues for an overhaul of conservation thinking and practice.
Social Change and Conservation
Author: Kléber Bertrand Ghimire
Publisher: Earthscan Publications
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844079476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a powerful book. It is about conflict, rights, process, professionalism, paradigms, power, politics, gender, biodiversity, sustainability and political economy. It argues a case for radical reorientation in the current conservation thinking, and argues it with empirical evidence and moral force. The chapters, individually and cumulatively, pack formidable punch. There is an alternative paradigm here which is practical, and which simply has to be the wave of the future. The question is not whether this paradigm will prevail, but how soon and how well. There is a wonderful opportunity for a win-win scenario, with gains both for people and for nature"--Rober Chambers, Professor, Institute of Development Studies, UK. 'This book should become the starting point of a worldwide public enquiry into the workings of institutions and international policies committed to conservation. The general public, who hove very generously supported the cause of conservation, have a right to know why many advertised conservation policies have not succeeded, where the real problems lie, what should be done in the future, and who we should turn to for help. These are some of the questions addressed in this volume' - Vithal Reian, Founder Member of the Deccan Development Society and the Confederation of Voluntary Associations, India; member of the Right Livelihood Award Jury, Sweden. Protected areas and conservation policies are usually established with only local nature and wildlife in mind. Yet they can have far reaching consequences for local populations, often undermining their access to resources and their livelihoods. "Social Change and Conservation" is the first comprehensive discussion of the social consequences of protected area schemes and conservation policies.
Social Change 2.0
Author: David Gershon
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf "change" is the mantra of our moment in history, Social Change 2.0 may be poised to become its bible. Drawing on his three decades in the trenches of large-scale societal transformation, David Gershon--founder and president of Empowerment Institute, and described by the United Nations as a "graceful revolutionary"--offers an original and comprehensive roadmap to bring about fundamental change in our world. His goal is to empower change agents to tackle pressing social problems or unmet social needs by providing them with strategies and tools to effect transformative change at any level of scale.From his initiation as architect of the United Nations-sponsored First Earth Run--a mythic passing of fire around the world symbolizing humanity's quest for peace on earth that drew tens of millions of participants, the planet's political leaders and, through the media, over a billion people at the height of the cold war--to his recent climate-change work helping citizens, cities, and entire states measurably reduce their carbon footprint (using his book Low Carbon Diet), Gershon offers readers strategies to evolve an effective new model for social change. These include: The first comprehensive social-change model with proven, practical strategies and tools to either launch a social change initiative or improve the efficacy of any existing change program. A "Practitioner's Guide" accompanying each chapter, to help readers apply this social change framework to their initiative. The result is a riveting, enlightening, and inspiring book that will quickly find its way onto the desks--and into the hearts--of the tens of thousands of change agents engaged in the work of building a better world. Social Change 2.0 speaks to a wide range of practitioners across the spectrum of social change including social and environmental activists, social entrepreneurs, community organizers, and civic, government, and business leaders, as well as the vast number of baby boomers looking for a way to give back and the millennials just raring to go.
Food, Agriculture and Social Change
Author: Stephen Sherwood
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-05-22
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1315440075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough grounded case studies in seven Latin American countries, each of which seeks to explain development as it uniquely unfolds, this book explores how social change in food and agriculture is fundamentally experiential, contingent and unpredictable.
Conservation Research, Policy and Practice
Author: William J. Sutherland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-04-16
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1108714587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover how conservation can be made more effective through strengthening links between science research, policy and practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation
Author: Fikret Berkes
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-01-29
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1839102233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Fikret Berkes provides a unique introduction to the social and interdisciplinary dimensions of biodiversity conservation. Examining a range of approaches, new ideas, controversies and debates, he demonstrates that biodiversity loss is not primarily a technical issue, but a social problem that operates in an economic, political and cultural context. Berkes concludes that conservation must be democratized in order to broaden its support base and build more inclusive constituencies for conservation.
The Rise of the American Conservation Movement
Author: Dorceta E. Taylor
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2016-08-04
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 0822373971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the movement's links to nineteenth-century ideologies. Initially led by white urban elites—whose early efforts discriminated against the lower class and were often tied up with slavery and the appropriation of Native lands—the movement benefited from contributions to policy making, knowledge about the environment, and activism by the poor and working class, people of color, women, and Native Americans. Far-ranging and nuanced, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement comprehensively documents the movement's competing motivations, conflicts, problematic practices, and achievements in new ways.
Museums as Agents for Social Change
Author: Njabulo Chipangura
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-12
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1000399265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuseums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation. Drawing on studies of Mutare museum, a regional museum in Eastern Zimbabwe, this book considers how museums with inherited colonial legacies are dealing with their new environments. The book provides an examination of Mutare museum’s activism in engaging with topical issues affecting its surrounding community and Chipangura and Mataga demonstrate how new forms of engagement are being deployed to attract new audiences, whilst dealing with issues such as economic livelihoods, poverty, displacement, climate change and education. Illustrating how recent programmes have helped to reposition Mutare museum as a decolonial agent of social change and an important community anchor institution, the book also demonstrates how other museums can move beyond the colonial preoccupation with the gathering of collections, conservation and presentation of cultural heritage to the public. Museums as Agents for Social Change will primarily be of interest to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, history, archaeology and anthropology. It should also be appealing to museum professionals around the world who are interested in learning more about how to decolonise their museum.
Conducting Research in Conservation
Author: Helen Newing
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-10-18
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 1136934391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinary field of environmental conservation. The first section on planning a research project includes chapters on the need for social science research in conservation, defining a research topic, methodology, and sampling. Section two focuses on practical issues in carrying out fieldwork with local communities, from fieldwork preparation and data collection to the relationships between the researcher and the study community. Section three provides an in-depth focus on a range of social science methods including standard qualitative and quantitative methods such as participant observation, interviewing and questionnaires, and more advanced methods, such as ethnobiological methods for documenting local environmental knowledge and change, and participatory methods such as the ‘PRA’ toolbox. Section four then demonstrates how to analyze social science data qualitatively and quantitatively; and the final section outlines the writing-up process and what should happen after the end of the formal research project. This book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to social science research methods for students of conservation related subjects and practitioners trained in the natural sciences. It features practical worldwide examples of conservation-related research in different ecosystems such as forests; grasslands; marine and riverine systems; and farmland. Boxes provide definitions of key terms, practical tips, and brief narratives from students and practitioners describe the practical issues that they have faced in the field.
