Search
Search Results
-
Social Impacts of Conservation-Forced Resettlement
The impacts of conservated-forced resettlement (CFR) have been presented in theoretical models by anthropologists and socioogists, including Thayer...
-
Conservation, Ethics, and Indigenous Peoples
The issue of ethics arises frequently in the discussions of conservation-related resettlement as it affects indigenous peoples world-wide. Ethics are...
-
Biodiversity Conservation, Protected Areas, and Indigenous Peoples
Biodiversity conservation has been a concern of states and governments for centuries. One way in which governments have sought to protect...
-
People, Parks, and Power The Ethics of Conservation-Related Resettlement
This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement. We examine what has become known as the” parks versus...
-
Sensing inequity: technological solutionism, biodiversity conservation, and environmental DNA
Environmental DNA (eDNA) has risen in popularity as a genetically-based method to enumerate species in natural ecosystems, and it is well positioned...
-
Adaptation strategies and constraints of displaced households by the oil refinery development project in Uganda
Resettlement due to natural resources extraction and infrastructural development is known to be associated with impoverishments globally. In the...
-
Indigenous Peoples’ Strategies for Co** with Protected Area Policies and Treatment
Indigenous people around the world who have been affected by conservation-related resettlement have employed a number of strategies to cope with...
-
Redreaming the Human and the Ethics of Terraformation
It seems we have reached the end of the world. Floods destroy, fires rage, and pandemics spread, catastrophes that may only increase in frequency and...
-
Arrived, Yet In-between: Experiences of Iranian Asylum-Seeker Women Living with Insecure Residency in Australia
The plight of asylum seekers is a politically contested issue in Australia. Iranian women have been the largest number of asylum-seekers/Many have...
-
Forests Climate Change and Indigenous Knowledge. Reflecting Indigenous Ontologies in the Economics of Restoration
This chapter explores the intersection of political, economic, and cultural realities in the forest, climate change, and indigenous knowledge arena...
-
An Overview of Poverty Alleviation Social Work
As underscored in the document entitled “Guideline on Approving Social Work Professionals’ Participation in Poverty Alleviation” jointly issued by...
-
Environmental Challenges, Disaster Risk, and Social Policy for Women of Pakistan
This chapter covers environmental and disaster management policy for women of Pakistan. Women and girls in the country face comparatively greater...
-
Blind Spots
In the making of the EIA, blind spots are unaccounted variables and complexities that are not understood. This chapter argues that they are the...
-
Transformation of Society: Governance of Global Crises
The present form of global governance shows the deficits of transformation and the policy and market failure. As governmentally organized and...
-
Political Ecologies of Displacement
Political ecology embraces a diverse range of conceptual approaches, methodologies, and political strategies that broadly centre on rethinking...
-
Neglected Components in Dominant Accounts of a Good Life? — Disagreements among Maasai Pastoralists
Lists of basic needs necessary for a decent human life have found their way into approaches to sustainable development such as the “Safe and Just...
-
Understanding Climate Change as Societal Risk
Societal risk is advanced as a concept that is differentiated from the generic social risks of climate change. Societal risk is formally defined and...
-
Search for Home or Ur: An Introduction
This chapter situates the question, How do the Displaced Persons (DPs) construct the notion of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’ and lays out pertinent academic...
-
A Pedagogy of Critical Landscape Planning
This chapter, A Pedagogy of critical landscape planning, outlines a form of critical research and practice in landscape architecture that actively...
-
Practices of Development
In the name of sustainable development, local government officials in the municipality forged ahead with promoting alternative livelihoods among...