Conservation and Society,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
21(1), P. 48 - 60
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
Healthy
environments
are
fundamental
to
the
quality
of
life
communities
worldwide.
Yet,
many
efforts
integrate
environmental
conservation
with
human
well-being
have
struggled
center
local
people
or
failed
be
flexible
enough
accommodate
a
diversity
priorities.
We
present
methodology
for
community
engagement
known
as
Quality
Life
(QoL)
Planning—a
form
rapid
assessment,
reflection,
and
consensus-building
rooted
in
assets.
QoL
Planning
empowers
drive
agenda
improve
their
through
conservation.
In
this
paper,
we
provide
an
overview
process
describe
some
positive
outcomes
it
has
generated.
compare
four
case
studies
from
different
regions—two
rural
Amazonian
Peru
two
urban
peri-urban
Chicago
region
United
States—and
assess
major
lessons
insights.
Lastly,
enabling
conditions
that
contribute
success
identify
important
considerations
practitioners
interested
implementing
methodology.
Progress in Environmental Geography,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
3(1), P. 17 - 39
Published: Feb. 4, 2024
Conservation
has
employed
technologies
for
monitoring
and
visual
capture
since
its
inception
in
the
nineteenth
century.
Since
then,
capacities
of
conservation
have
developed
considerably,
affording
a
wide
range
data
relating
to
ecological
change
biodiversity
loss.
However,
new
introduce
fresh
ethical
political
issues
into
environmental
protection,
especially
as
they
can
be
used
–
deliberately
or
accidentally
collect
information
about
human
activities.
This
potential
is
important,
given
that
many
areas
protection
are
also
longstanding
conflict.
We
focus
here
on
implications
surrounding
drones,
which
photographic
video
footage
include
images
humans.
review
approaches
technology,
visuality,
surveillance
across
beyond
geography
over
last
two
decades,
teasing
out
conceptual
support
nuanced
critical
analysis
drones.
Our
focuses
ways
drones
alter
(i)
processes
decision-making,
(ii)
dynamics
fearmongering
control,
(iii)
securitisation
protected
areas,
(iv)
production
circulation
(racial)
stereotypes,
(v)
practices
outcomes
justice.
unpack
these
themes
through
three
case
studies
from
our
own
fieldwork,
clarifying
intentional
non-intentional
emerge,
will
vital
explore
further
future.
Conservation Biology,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
39(2)
Published: April 1, 2025
Abstract
Conservation
is
an
inherently
social
process—people
collectively
endeavor
to
enact
conservation.
Yet,
in
conservation
science,
research
methodologies,
training,
and
competency
are
less
common
than
natural
sciences.
Globally,
formal
education
training
the
sciences
often
unavailable
or
inaccessible
practitioners,
nonformal
may
help
fill
this
gap.
To
identify
potential
opportunities,
we
implemented
a
global
survey
of
practitioners
their
knowledge
gaps
science
needs
conducted
gap
analysis
available
resources.
We
compiled
449
resources,
including
266
English‐language
183
non‐English‐languages
resources
into
open‐access
online
database
hosted
by
Social
Science
Partnership.
Resources
were
categorized
as
communication,
data
collection,
ethics
human
rights,
intervention,
impact
evaluation,
analysis.
Most
open
access
(90%)
half
specific
practice.
Survey
responses
(
n
=
90)
revealed
demand
for
with
analyses,
ethics,
rights
considerations.
found
need
organization
leaders
prioritize
conservation,
greater
diversity
accessible
alternate
mediums
languages,
tailored
contexts,
additional
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
49, P. 79 - 87
Published: April 1, 2021
Multiple
proposals
for
transforming
biodiversity
conservation
have
been
put
forward,
yet
critical
exploration
of
how
transformative
change
is
conceptualised
in
this
context
lacking.
Drawing
on
transformations
to
sustainability
scholarship,
we
review
recent
conservation,
considering
the
suggested
goals
and
means
transformation.
We
outline
crucial
role
social
scientific
inquiry
by
highlighting
two
core
contributions.
First,
science
an
analytical
device
that
politicises
pluralises
debates
second,
it
can
help
facililitate
identification
alternatives.
then
show
such
a
approach
operationalised
within
CONVIVA
(Towards
Convivial
Conservation:
Governing
Human-Wildlife
Interactions
Anthropocene)
project
pursue
conservation.
Frontiers in Conservation Science,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
2
Published: Sept. 28, 2021
This
perspective
essay
considers
ethical
and
conceptual
questions
around
who
coexistence
is
for,
it
affects,
to
make
happen.
The
introduction
some
approaches
thinking
about
human-wildlife
coexistence,
debates
on
the
utility
of
concept
reasons
for
its
current
emergence
into
mainstream.
It
next
outlines
preliminary
conception
informing
this
essay.
discussion
challenges
a
narrow
conservation-oriented
framing
offers
insights
from
literatures
stewardship
relational
values
tackling
these.
transcript Verlag eBooks,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 7, 2022
Die
Wölfe
kehren
zurück
nach
Deutschland
-
und
mit
ihnen
auch
die
Konflikte
zwischen
Mensch
Wolf.
Eine
zentrale
Rolle
spielen
dabei
Affekte,
Atmosphären,
Gefühle
Stimmungen,
ihre
Rückkehr
auslöst.
Über
einen
ethnografischen
Zugriff
untersucht
Thorsten
Gieser
komplexe
Verflechtung
von
Natur
Gesellschaft
im
Anthropozän.
Seine
These:
konfrontieren
uns
einem
affektiven
Rewilding
stoßen
damit
Prozess
an,
als
mehr-als-menschliche
neu
zu
denken.
Er
zeigt
Wege
einer
(friedlichen)
Koexistenz
auf,
schlägt
dazu
ein
komplexes
Verständnis
Wölfen
affektive
Akteure
vor
begreift
somit
das
Wolf-Mensch-Verhältnis
radikal
neu.
American Ethnologist,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
50(1), P. 115 - 128
Published: Jan. 13, 2023
Abstract
The
idea
of
“species”
is
the
main
unit
for
representing
ecological
relations.
But
what
would
an
ecology
look
like
if
we
started
by
tracing
its
relations
from
below
species
threshold?
By
deploying
infraspecies
ethnography,
I
show
how,
in
suburban
Barcelona,
human
and
wild
boar
individuals
relate
personal,
creative
ways,
how
doing
so,
they
also
reshape
their
quotidian
ecologies
bottom
up.
Departing
species‐level
imaginaries
wildlife
managers,
residents
cope
with
boars
not
only
as
idiosyncratic
specimens
but
reversible
beings:
pigs
that
are
simultaneously
“wild”
“tame,”
“rural”
“urban,”
“pest”
“neighbor.”
Shifting
attention
between
coherent
to
situated
encounters
singular
unveils
weave
relations,
remake
ecologies,
navigate
uncertainty
emerging
human‐animal
intimacies.
Frontiers in Conservation Science,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
4
Published: Nov. 9, 2023
Non-human
great
apes
–
chimpanzees,
gorillas,
bonobos,
and
orangutans
are
threatened
by
agricultural
expansion,
particularly
from
rice,
cacao,
cassava,
maize,
oil
palm
cultivation.
Agriculture
replaces
fragments
ape
habitats,
bringing
them
closer
to
humans
often
resulting
in
conflict.
Though
the
impact
of
agriculture
on
is
well-recognized,
there
still
a
need
for
more
nuanced
understanding
specific
contexts
associated
negative
impacts
habitats
populations.
Here
we
review
these
their
implications
apes.
We
estimate
that
within
African
South-East
Asian
ranges,
about
100
people
each
ape.
Given
most
live
outside
strictly
protected
areas
growing
human
population
increasing
demand
resources
landscapes,
it
will
be
challenging
balance
needs
both
Further
habitat
loss
expected,
Africa,
where
compromises
must
sought
re-direct
expansion
driven
subsistence
farmers
with
small
fields
(generally
<0.64
ha)
away
remaining
habitats.
To
promote
coexistence
between
apes,
new
approaches
financial
models
implemented
at
local
scales.
Overall,
optimized
land
use
planning
effective
implementation,
along
strategic
investments
wildlife
conservation,
can
improve
synergies
conservation
food
production.
Effective
governance
financing
crucial
optimal
outcomes
security.
Enforcing
forest
laws,
engaging
trade
policy
discussions,
integrating
policies
trade,
security,
improved
techniques,
sustainable
systems
vital
prevent
further
decline
Saving
requires
thorough
consideration
contexts.
