Dissertations / Theses: 'Nature conservation projects'

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Kleitz, Gilles. "Ruling by nature : analysing the implementation of nature conservation projects in rural areas." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399874.

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Green, Gina C. "Conservation projects in Central America an analysis to determine the ingredients for success /." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/26977311.html.

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Brettschneider, Beate N. H. "An investigation of the volunteer tourism industry in Namibia with specific focus on nature conservation projects." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95674.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
This research investigates the volunteer tourism industry in Namibia, a niche market of the tourism industry. The tourism industry is the fastest growing sector in the economy (Travel News Namibia, 2012: 9), and it is also the second largest contributor to GDP (Ministry of Environment and Tourism Annual Report, 2010: 14). Although the volunteer tourism industry has been active for more than 20 years, it is currently having trouble with its status as a recognised sector of the tourism industry. Industry members mostly fear that investments to grow the industry are at risk due to uncertain entry visa requirements for international volunteers. There is also a concern that the industry is not regulated like other sectors of the tourism industry and that volunteer tourism is not recognised with equal status. Industry members feel ignored when it comes to national marketing campaigns and when representative bodies act in their interest. Industry members also expressed concern being left out when it comes to drafting new laws that affect the industry. To understand the industry, it is vital to analyse the industry from an internal and external perspective. This includes an analysis of the current status of the strategic architecture of the industry and an environmental analysis. The report also presents innovations to a typical strategic architecture model. Information and data for this research report was gathered from tourism industry stakeholders and experts, managers of five of the biggest industry players, and international volunteers. The findings of the investigation reveal that the business model of the industry is working well. Initiatives for continuous improvement, however, remain small due to uncertainties experienced in the macro-environment. The competitive environment of the industry is conducive to performance, as well as price and costing models. Demand for volunteering in Namibia is on the increase and the industry has realised that it needs to prepare itself to capture its full potential. The establishment of the Namibia VolunTourism Forum, which is represented through important stakeholders of the industry, is a first step to find solutions to the many challenges. This report serves as a working paper for the tourism industry and in particular for the volunteer tourism industry with the aim to increase stakeholder value.

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Hansen, Christina. "Learning for Development: Constructing Inclusive Work Relations in a Nature Conservation Project in Dondo, Mozambique." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23232.

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Utvecklingsprojekt förutsätter konstruerade målgrupper – ”de fattiga”, ”de under-utvecklade”, ”analfabeter” – som man ämnar ”hjälpa”, ”utveckla” eller ”utbilda”. Vad som definieras vara ”problemen” baseras på kunskap som härrör från samma källa som idéerna till utvecklingsinsatser. Detta riskerar att ignorera lokalkännedom. Denna uppsats visar, genom analys av ett fall på mikronivå, att projektmål som syftar till att främja utveckling inte alltid lyckas.Denna studie är baserad på etnografiskt material hämtat från ett bostadsområde i Dondo, en landsortsbygd i centrala Moçambique, genom fältarbete. Studien utforskar hur en utvecklingsdiskurs och praxis införs i en lokal ort, hur detta påverkar människorna, samt hur de används och förändras.Mötet mellan utomstående och lokalboende i ekonomiska och materiella ojämlika förhållanden, och arbetsrelationerna mellan ledare och personer med lägre social status, kännetecknas av ömsesidiga fördomar och stereotypa bilder av ”den andre”. I Dondo har historiskt och kulturellt normaliserade sociala relationer kommit att marginalisera ekonomiskt mindre gynnade invånare. Uppdelningen mellan insiders och outsiders legitimerar och upprätthåller marginaliseringen av lokal kunskap och exkluderingen av lokala invånares deltagande. Samtidigt finns det en brist på tilltro till utomståendes expertis bland lokalboende, som hindrar erkännande av ”yttre” kunskap som kan bidra till lokal utveckling.Dessa faktorer hindrar skapandet av inkluderande arbetsrelationer, det vill säga ett ge-och-ta-förhållande där båda parter lär och drar nytta av varandras erfarenheter och kunskap. Denna uppsats hävdar därför att ömsesidigt lärande är en förutsättning för utveckling. En viss typ av ledarskap kan möjliggöra utveckling om den tillämpas i syfte att utmana befintliga ojämlika maktförhållanden och diskursivt konstruerade bilder av sig själv och andra som cirkulerar i utvecklingssammanhang.
Development projects often conceptualize target groups that are identified as – ‘the poor’, ‘the underdeveloped’, ‘the illiterate’ – with the aim to ‘help’, ‘develop’ or ‘educate’ them. The definitions of ‘problems’ are based on knowledge deriving from the same source as the ideas of development interventions, and therefore may ignore local knowledge. By analyzing one micro-level case this thesis suggests that projects aiming to promote development may in fact fail to accomplish their goals.This study is based on ethnographic material collected through fieldwork in one local neighbourhood of Dondo, which is a rural town in central Mozambique. It explores how development discourse and practice are introduced in a local setting, how they operate, and the way in which they are transformed and utilized.The encounters between outsiders and insiders in conditions of economic and material inequality, and the work relations between superiors and socially less privileged people, are characterized by reciprocal preconceptions and stereotyped images of ‘the Other’. In Dondo historically and culturally normalized social relations have come to marginalize economically less advantaged residents. The divisions between ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ may legitimize and maintain the marginalization of local knowledge, as well as local people’s participation. At the same time, a lack of trust towards outsiders’ expertise exists amongst insiders, which impedes recognition of ‘outer’ knowledge that could contribute to local development.These factors obstruct the creation of inclusive work relations; a give-and-take relationship in which both sides learn and benefit from each other’s experience and knowledge. Therefore, this thesis argues for mutual learning as a precondition for development. Certain leadership approaches may enable development, if it is practiced with the aim to challenge existing power inequalities and discursively created images of self and others that operate within development contexts.

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Meets, Michiel. "The determination of the concentration of aqueous smoke solutions used in restoration projects." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51955.

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Thesis (M.Sc.)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is well known that smoke and aqueous smoke solutions promote the germination of certain seeds. This has considerable practical implications for restoration in fire prone areas like the Cape fynbos. The aqueous smoke solution (more commonly known as smoke water) can be used in restoration projects to stimulate seeds to germinate faster so that a wide diversity of plants can be established rapidly. Smoke water is made using different methods and different plant materials. This inevitably results in different concentrations of smoke water. Although made in different ways, different smoke waters may all have an enhancing effect on seed germination. In this study, the germination of Grand Rapids lettuce seed was used to determine the differences between five different types of smoke water. Germination was done in a controlled environment, using through-flow germination boxes (patent no. ZA2000/1832, registered 1114/2000) instead of traditional petri dishes. The differences in the concentrations were determined using bioassays. A very strong concentration of smoke water damaged the seed and a very weak concentration did not have any enhancing effect on germination. The concentrations of the different smoke waters were compared to a standard smoke solution (the first smoke solution ever made, that of De Lange & Boucher (1990». The different concentrations of the smoke solutions were determined by comparing them to the standard, using a best fit line on the germination graphs. Each of the smoke solutions tested is given a "delb" rating (after De Lange & Boucher), with the standard smoke water being 1 delb. The delb value is used to determine the dilution factor for each smoke solution. It is concluded that the five smoke solutions tested all differed from each other emphasizing the need for quality control in commercial and experimental applications.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Dit is wel bekend dat rook en vloeibare rook oplossings (rookwater) die ontkieming van sekere sade bespoedig. Dit het groot praktiese implikasies vir hervestiging in gebiede met gereelde vuur, soos die Kaapse fynbos. Die rookwater kan in hervestiginsprojekte gebruik word om sade te stimuleer om vinniger te ontkiem om sodoende 'n groot diversiteit van plante vinnig te vestig. Rookwater word op verskillende maniere en met verskillende materiaal vervaardig. Dit kan lei tot verskillende konsentrasies rookwater, alhoewel al die verskillende rookwaters 'n stimulerende effek op saadontkieming kan bewerkstellig. In hierdei studie is Grand Rapids slaai saad gebruik om die verskille tussen vyf verskillende rookwaters te ondersoek. Ontkieming was in 'n beheerde atmosfeer gedoen en deurvloei ontkiemingsbakke (patent nr. ZA2000/1832, geregistreer 11/4/2000) is gebruik, i. p. v. traditionele petri bakkies. Die verskille in konsentrasies is gemeet m. b. v. biotoetse. 'n Baie serk konsentrasie het die sade beskadig en 'n baie flou konsentrasie het geen stimulerende effek op ontkieming gehad nie. Die konsentrasie van die verskillende rookwaters is vergelyk teenoor 'n standaard rookwater (die eerste rookwater ooit gemaak, die van De Lange en Boucher (1990». Die verskillende rookwater konsentrasies is bepaal deur dit met die standaard te vergelyk m. b. v. 'n regressie lyn op die ontkiemingsgrafieke. Elke rookwater getoets kry dan 'n "delb" waarde (n. a. v. De Lange & Boucher), met die standard gelyk aan 1 delb. Die delb waarde word gebruik om die optimale verdunning van elke rookwater te bepaal. Daar word opgesom dat al die rookwaters getoets wel van mekaar verskil en dit beklemtoon die waarde van kwaliteits beheer in kommersiële en eksperimentele toepassings.

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Linden, Sara Jo. "Connecting to Nature, Community, and Self: A Conservation Corps Approach to Re-engaging At-Risk Youth in Science Education." PDXScholar, 2016. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3036.

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The social and environmental challenges of the coming decades will require that individuals possess environmental literacy: the understanding of natural systems combined with a sense of care for the earth, and the confidence and competency to act on its behalf. At the same time, disengaged youth need education environments that foster belonging and promote affective outcomes. The youth conservation corps model provides a natural context for engaging academically at-risk youth in environmental science education, while fostering connection to nature and student self-efficacy in ways that are experiential, relevant, and relationship-based. The focus of this study was a conservation corps program that integrates habitat restoration fieldwork and environmental science curriculum. The participants of this study were eight high school seniors who participated in the program for credit toward their high school diplomas. Data were collected through both quantitative and qualitative measures. Students completed a pre-test to assess their understanding and application of conceptual knowledge in ecosystem relationships and biodiversity. Upon completion of a six-week curriculum, they completed a post-test assessing knowledge in the same areas, two retrospective pre-post surveys measuring connection to nature and self-efficacy, and a post-evaluation measuring affective outcomes. Individual interviews were conducted in order to provide further insights and to identify elements of the program that contributed to positive outcomes. Results showed statistically significant increases in all outcome areas as well as positive student evaluation of affective outcomes. The outdoor and experiential components of the program were found to contribute most significantly to the positive outcomes.

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Mufudza, Pardon. "Impact of income generating projects on the rural livelihoods: the case of Mwenezi Fish Conservation Project, Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1811.

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Thesis (M. Dev.) -- University of Limpopo, 2016
Most rural communities in developing countries are involved in various natural resource exploitation programmes to improve their livelihood status. The main objectives of the research were to assess the contribution of fish conservation as a strategy towards improving the livelihood status of people in Maranda Ward 9 in Mwenezi, Zimbabwe, and to ascertain the challenges in fish conservation and access to fishing activities. In this research, a questionnaire, interviews, focus group discussions and observations were used to gather information. In the administration of the questionnaires on the village households, 80 households were used as research subjects drawn from a 10% sample size for each of the 10 villages. Purposive sampling was also used for selecting respondents for the interviews and focus group discussions. Secondary data sources used include data from the Parks and Wildlife Authority on recorded cases of fish poaching. The researcher discovered that the fish conservation project improved the livelihood status of the people. Food security was improved through supplementary purchases of food using money derived from the selling of fish. A decrease in school dropouts and improved income are some of the indicators of improved livelihood status of the people. However, there is still a need for continuous support to the programme from various external institutions such as universities, research institutions, financial institutions and Rural District Council. These institutions play a significant role in community development through educational support, training and development, financial support and in creating a favourable environment for economic development in rural areas. There is also a need for continuous monitoring and evaluation of all project activities to assess improvements in rural livelihoods and also compare the actual performance of the IGPs with the desired performance. The deviation makes a platform for corrective actions towards improving the lives of rural people

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Borg, Laura Anne. "Impact of environmental expo on eight graders' self-perceived environmental behaviors." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3218.

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West, Robin Mark. "The Alderford Project : examining the tangled roots of nature conservation and social continuity." Thesis, University of Essex, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.537954.

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Lai, Shin-kwan Flora. "Conservation consideration in Hong Kong : a case study of sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19906092.

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Tallant, Meredith L. Molnar Joseph J. "Internet access, practice adoption, and conservation program participation in three Alabama watersheds." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2006%20Fall/Theses/TALLANT_MEREDITH_1.pdf.

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Mahanty, Sanghamitra. "Actors in paradise negotiating actors, landscape and institutions in the Nagarahole Ecodevelopment Project, India /." Online version, 2000. http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/23849.

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Trusler, Bonnie R. "Energy watch: an energy conservation project for elementary schools." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/38.

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The goal of this project was to organize and implement an energy conservation program for second and fifth grade students that would increase their overall awareness and understanding of energy concepts and energy conservation.

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Broxson, Bruce Vincent. "Environmental fairs: An examination of the 1999 Inland Empire Environmental EXPO." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1883.

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Cook, Benjmain O. "Lower Scotts Creek Floodplain and Habitat Enhancement Project." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1647.

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Scotts Creek, located in northern Santa Cruz County, maintains the southernmost persistent population of Central California Coast (CCC) Coho Salmon (endangered) in addition to CCC steelhead (threatened). Fisheries biologists believe overwinter mortality due to lack of refuge habitat is the primary factor limiting salmonid production. Instream rearing habitat may also be limiting, especially during drought years. The legacy effects of historic land use practices, including dredging, wood removal, and the construction of levees, continued to limit refuge and rearing opportunities. A restoration project was implemented to improve refuge and rearing opportunities for salmonids along lower Scotts Creek by removing portions of the deteriorating levee, grading new connections with existing off-channel features, enhancing tributary confluences, constructing alcove habitat features at the margins of the stream channel, and constructing large wood complexes (LWCs) instream. Novel restoration techniques were employed on an experimental basis. Whole in-situ alder trees were pushed into the stream channel with their root systems left partially intact to establish living key pieces. Individual log, boulder, and rootwad LWC components were attached together with couplers that permitted some freedom of independent movement among the individual components. LWCs were braced against live, standing trees and stabilized with boulder ballasts placed on the streambed, which eliminated excavation of the streambed/banks and the need to dewater or divert the stream during construction. Project performance, changes to physical habitat characteristics, and changes to stream morphology associated with implementation were monitored using habitat assessment methods derived from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s (CDFW) salmonid habitat survey protocol (Flosi et al. 2010), and topographic survey techniques and data analysis adapted from Columbia Habitat Monitoring Protocol (Bouwes et al. 2011). Preliminary results indicated that LWCs remained stable and functional. In addition, implementation of the restoration project increased pool frequency, low-flow pool volume, instream cover, frequency of instream, alcove, and off-channel refuge habitat features, and frequency of points of connectivity with the floodplain. Long-term monitoring will be required to determine the survivorship, decay rates, and overall persistence of alder recruits.

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Pritchard, Stephen G. "The social construction of landscape scale conservation projects as delivered by The Wildlife Trusts in England." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2017. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/5712/.

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Wildlife conservation in England is in transition because nature reserve based conservation has three weaknesses. They have not reversed biodiversity decline, nor do they provide the means for species to move across the landscape in response to climate change, and most reserves are too small to be part of an ecosystem approach to conservation. Landscape scale conservation (LSC) addresses these deficiencies. Therefore, the purpose of my thesis was to understand the meaning of LSC as implemented in the Living Landscapes schemes of The Wildlife Trusts (TWT) movement in England. My research also examined the governance and management of these schemes. I used a constructivist approach to investigate the institutions and discourses of Living Landscapes. To do this, I conducted an email survey of the 36 Trusts in England and then studied the available documentation that describes Living Landscapes. Then I carried out a series of in-depth interviews with stakeholders associated with five Wildlife Trusts. The purpose of these interviews was to understand what their Living Landscape schemes meant to these stakeholders. The email survey and subsequent document study revealed the range and type of Living Landscapes across England. LSC is complex, suggesting that ecosystem services are too intricate a typography to assign to these schemes. I developed an understanding of what is meant by LSC through the lens of stakeholders in Living Landscapes. I examined TWT’s LSC vision which revealed the discourses and formal and informal institutions of Living Landscapes. I also examined Lockwood’s framework for LSC governance, one of LSC’s institutions. My research examined the Wildlife Trust movement’s approach to delivering LSC. Two types of institutions are evident, informal institutions define the physical attributes of Living Landscapes, whilst formal institutions are characteristic of their governance and management. Its key discourses of conservation, education and community engagement define Living Landscapes, whilst ecosystem services emerged as a new discourse to reflect the multifaceted cultural and historical elements in the landscape. TWT’s once insular approach to governance is in transition to a pluralistic model that encourages greater community involvement. Therefore, if LSC is to be a template for successful conservation it must embrace a wider definition of both conservation and governance.

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Singh, Jaidev. "State-making and community-based natural resource management : cases of the Vhimba CAMPFIRE Project (Zimbabwe) and the Chimanimani Transfrontier Conservation Area (Mozambique) /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5532.

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Lai, Shin-kwan Flora, and 黎倩君. "Conservation consideration in Hong Kong: a case study of sites of special scientific interest (SSSI)." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259704.

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Perez, Charles A. "Environmental education resource directory for San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange Counties." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/950.

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Binot, Aurélie. "La conservation de la nature en Afrique centrale entre théorie et pratiques. Des espaces protégés à géométrie variable." Phd thesis, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00508990.

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Cette thèse propose une analyse des projets intégrant conservation de la faune sauvage et développement en Afrique centrale, dans la mouvance des approches participatives qui se sont développées à partir des années 1980 au sein de projets de coopération multilatérale. Nous mettons en évidence la représentation des espaces à enjeux de conservation qui domine très nettement le paysage de la conservation intégrée. Cette représentation est produite sur la base d'une opposition de type centre/périphérie entre les espaces naturels à conserver et les aires de production attenantes. Elle génère des modèles de développement et de gouvernance locaux stéréotypés, ainsi que des approches de zonage en profond décalage avec les pratiques locales, notamment en termes de gestion foncière. C'est également cette représentation territoriale centripète qui est à l'origine de rapports de force et de conflits récurrents dans la gestion des aires protégées. Ces jeux de pouvoir s'érigent en obstacle à la participation active des communautés locales aux actions de conservation. Nous illustrons notre propos à partir d'une lecture critique de la rhétorique qui s'est construite autour des paradigmes du Développement Durable appliqués à la conservation de la biodiversité et sur la base de l'expérience de plusieurs projets de terrain mis en œuvre en Afrique centrale. Nous nous appuyons particulièrement sur l'étude de cas du parc national de Zakouma (Tchad) et sur son dispositif d'aménagement du territoire, caractéristique des pratiques conservationnistes en Afrique centrale.

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Matthews, Linda Jan. "An elementary habitat curriculum for the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2870.

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This place-based curriculum, developed to address the alienation that children often feel from the natural environment around them, is an inquiry-based, hands-on teaching module for third and fourth grade children. It is designed around a one-day field trip to vernal pool habitat at the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve. Three pre-visit and three post-visit lessons are included. The lessons enable students to acquire required California academic content standards, and also incorporate education principles stated in California's Education and the Environment Initiative.

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Mpofu, Khulekani. "Evaluation of the performance of community-based natural resources management (CBNRM) projects along an aridity gradient in Botswana." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006063.

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The Botswana Community Based Natural Resources Management (CBNRM) programme started in 1989. Its aims were to promote sustainable development through sustainable natural resources management and utilisation to improve rural livelihoods. The country CBNRM programme has recorded mixed outcomes and this has raised questions on the programme performance throughout the country. Since the programme has been recognised as one of the eight main livelihood strategies for rural communities in Botswana, there was a need to evaluate the programme performance and determine the factors that influence it. This thesis therefore evaluated the performance of CBNRM projects along an aridity gradient in Botswana and by so doing answered the two research questions of: (1) What factors influence the performance of CBNRM? And (2) how does aridity influence the performance of CBNRM programmes? Performance was determined in terms of financial benefits generated by CBNRM projects and the projects adherence to the CBNRM principles. Data were collected from seven selected CBNRM projects covering three aridity zones (wet, medium rainfall and dry areas) in the country. Data were also collected from key informants and community based organisations (CBO) project managers. Research findings have indicated differences in the performance of CBNRM projects across the identified three aridity zones. Factors that influenced the performance of CBNRM projects varied among the three aridity zones. These factors included: existence of complimentary rules and regulations for managing CBNRM projects; literacy levels of communities involved in CBNRM; ethnic composition of the project communities; historic and current socio-economic trends within communities; collaboration between CBNRM institutions and other local level institutes; amount of benefits generated through the projects; ability of institutions to resolve outstanding issues in time and type of CBNRM project. Research results also indicated that there was variation in the performance of CBNRM projects across the three aridity zones. Aridity was found to directly influence the performance of CBNRM projects through its influence on the amount of revenues that projects generated.

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Soderbery, Celeste Koren. "The use of children's theatre as a tool for teaching environmental education." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2003. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2476.

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The play, Madagascar Mayhem, was devised as a means of developing ecological understanding about rain forest preservation and educating and expanding upon the use of drama as it relates to environmental education. By being involved in and learning about issues addressed in the play's content, students learned about how their actions may have a positive impact on rain forest preservation, the biodiversity of Madagascar, its agricultural loss and the movement to protect it.

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Kelley, Albert J. "A case study: Process and techniques used in land preservation strategies in the Crafton Hills, Yucaipa, California." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/727.

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Morris, Michael William. "Amazopoly a game of survival in a tropical rain forest." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/34.

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Clark, Paul David. "Social capital and vanua challenges to governance development in a community-based natural resource management project in Cuvu Tikina, Fiji /." CONNECT TO THIS TITLE ONLINE, 2008. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-05202008-111818/.

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Lhoutellier, Louise. "Les ressorts et effets de la participation locale à la conservation de la nature (Madagascar) : éthnographie des pratiques de leadership dans les projets de développement associés." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100180.

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En périphérie du Parc National de Ranomafana (Madagascar), les ONG de conservation de la nature et de développement promeuvent des projets qui mettent en avant de manière accrue l’importance de la délibération et de la confrontation des points de vue des différents acteurs, comme un préalable à la décision politique. De nouvelles scènes officiellement dédiées à la participation locale voient le jour, notamment dans la capitale régionale située à cinquante kilomètres, dans lesquelles doivent se rencontrer les représentants des administrations forestières, ceux des populations locales, et les employés de ONG. L’étude menée dans cette thèse analyse la médiation réalisée par les leaders villageois entre les différentes scènes de la participation, en portant une attention particulière aux modes d’interaction langagiers et culturels associés à l’exercice local du pouvoir. En modifiant l’accès aux ressources, les projets peuvent remettre en cause les positions sociales établies dans la communauté : les villageois les voient comme des sources de conflit, ce qui va à l’encontre de la règle du fihavanana, valeur d’entraide entre co-résidents. Face à la difficulté de mobiliser les villageois autour des projets, les leaders tentent de gagner leur confiance en traduisant le projet dans le langage du village. En effet, les leaders sont des urbains de retour au village, qui utilisent les compétences acquises en ville dans leur médiation entre village et projets. Ils ont recours à des modes d’interaction verbaux formalisés, et redistribuent l’aide à des membres actifs qu’ils chargent d’assurer la prise en charge et le fonctionnement les activités des projets
In the surrounding area of the Ranomafana National Park (Madagascar), the projects implemented by NGOs that primarily deal with nature conservation and development increasingly value debates and the fact that the views of the different actors involved are confronted prior to political decisions. New places officially dedicated to local participation are created, in particular in the regional capital located at 50 km from the Park, making possible the encounter between NGO employees and representatives of the forestry administration and of local people. This study analyses the mediation carried out by leaders between different places of participation, with a particular focus on the cultural and linguistic interaction modes associated with local ways of exercising power. Because they change the access to resources, projects may question the established social statuses: villagers perceive them as a potential cause of conflict, and consequently contrary to the fihavanana rule, a value based on mutual aid among co-residents. In front of the difficulty to give rise to a large mobilisation for projects, the leaders try to gain the villagers’s confidence by translating the project into the language of the village. Leaders are urban people who came back to the village, and take advantage of the skills acquired in the cities for their task of mediation between the village and the projects. They use formal verbal interaction patterns, and redistribute aid to active members that they make responsible for being in charge of the projects and their functioning

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Gomez, Maria. "Modeling Coastal Vulnerability for Insight into Mangrove and Coral Reef Conservation Efforts in Cuba." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7562.

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Cuba’s expansive coral reefs and mangrove habitats provide a variety of ecosystem services to coastal communities including nursery grounds for fisheries, shoreline stability, and storm and flood protection. While Cuba’s coastal habitats are some of the most preserved in the Caribbean, they are under increasing threat of degradation from the impacts of climate change, increased tourism, and coastal development. With the goal of sustainable development, Cubans need to assess the storm and flood protection benefits these coastal habitats provide, and integrate this information into future expansion and management plans within the National Protected Areas System (SNAP). Using the open source software, Integrated Valuation on Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), a national-scale coastal vulnerability model was developed to provide quantitative estimates of coastal exposure and the protective role of coastal habitats during storm events. This model integrates storm information with bathymetry and coastline geomorphology, coupled with coastal habitat data to estimate the influence of these habitats in reducing vulnerability to storms and flooding. By combining these results with human population data, the model identifies where coastal communities are most vulnerable to wave energy and storm surge, and where coral reefs and mangroves provide the most protection by reducing impacts to these communities. We classify these regions as areas of conservation priority. We observed that fifty percent of the areas identified as areas of conservation priority lack any form of environmental protection. We recommend including these key habitats within the National System of Protected Areas. This will permit decision makers to more effectively concentrate restoration and conservation efforts in areas where people and natural resources will experience greater benefit from valuable ecological services.

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Ficke, David Russell. "Environmental education and high school backpacking." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2657.

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The call of the wilderness resonates in all of our hearts, with the desire to get in touch with nature and experience wilderness at some level. This project gives the high school teacher the practical resources necessary to share the passion of being in the wilderness with high school students.

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Martell, David D. "Developing a guidebook for an outdoor classroom." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/36.

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Glock, Gina. "Mountain habitat activity guide." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/41.

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Norwood, Robert Lee. "Tertiary wastewater treatment using riparian wetlands: A curriculum guide for high school students." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/44.

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McClatchey, Rebecca. "COLLABORATIVE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT IN THE EAST FORK LITTLE MIAMI WATERSHED WITH AN EMPHASIS IN PLANNING AND PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION: AN INTERNSHIP WITH CLERMONT SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1306344095.

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Pederson, Ana Ingrid. "Monitoring noxious weeds invasions in riparian areas following livestock exclusion of the Upper Big Hole River Valley adaptive management under the Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances project /." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06232009-200907.

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Morse, Cody. "Quantifying the Environmental Performance of a Stream Habitat Improvement Project." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2018. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1972.

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River restoration projects are being installed worldwide to rehabilitate degraded river habitat. Many of these projects focus on stream habitat improvement (SHI), and an estimated 60%of the 37,000 projects listed in the National River Restoration Science Synthesis Program focus on SHI for salmon and trout species. These projects frequently lack a sufficient monitoring program or account for the environmental costs associated with SHI. The present study used life cycle assessment (LCA) techniques and topographic effectiveness monitoring to quantify environmental costs on the basis of geomorphic change. This methodology was a novel approach to assessing the cost-benefit relationship of SHI. To test this methodology, two phases of the Lower Scotts Creek Floodplain and Habitat Enhancement Project (LSCR) were used as a case study. The LSCR was a SHI project installed along the northern coast of Santa Cruz County, California, USA. A limited scope LCA was used to quantify the life cycle impacts of raw material production, materials transportation, and on-site construction. Once these baseline results were produced, a topographic monitoring program was used to quantify the topographic diversity index (TDI) in pre- and post-project conditions. The TDI percent change was used to scale the baseline LCA results, which quantified the environmental impacts based on geomorphic change. Phase II outperformed phase I. Phase I had greater cumulative environmental impacts and experienced a 7.7 % TDI increase from pre- to post-project conditions. Phase II had 43% less cumulative environmental impacts and experienced a 7.9% TDI increase from pre- to post-project conditions. The impacts in phase I were greater because of the amount of material excavated to create off-channel features, which were a key feature of the LSCR. A scenario analysis also was conducted within the LCA component of this study. The scenario analysis suggests that life cycle impacts could be reduced by 30%-65% by using the accelerated recruitment method in place of importing materials to build large wood complexes. The results of this study suggest that managers may improve the environmental performance of SHI projects by: (1) using the accelerated recruitment method to introduce larger key pieces to the channel, reducing the need to import materials; (2) using nursery grown plants as opposed to excavating plants for revegetation; (3) minimizing fuel combustion in heavy equipment and haul trucks by ensuring clear access to the channel and streambank, using small engine equipment to clear access corridors during site preparation, running more fuel-efficient machinery or bio-fuel powered machinery, and by attempting to minimize haul distances by sourcing materials locally; and (4) utilizing a “franken-log” design (a ballasted LWC configuration with a rootwad fastened to the downstream end of a log) in LWCs which led to favorable TDI change. This study concluded that LCA could be a valuable tool for monitoring SHI and river restoration projects and that further research of the TDI analysis is justified.

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Shearer, Megan Marie. "Tibetan Buddhism and the environment: A case study of environmental sensitivity among Tibetan environmental professionals in Dharamsala, India." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2904.

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The purpose of this study was to investigate environmental sensitivity among environmental professionals in a culture that is assumed to hold an ecocentric perspective. Nine Tibetan Buddhist environmental professionals were surveyed in this study. Based on an Environmental Sensitivity Profile Insytrument, an environmental sensitivity profile for a Tibetan Buddhist environmental professional was created from the participants demographic and interview data. The most frequently defined vaqriables were environmental destruction/development, education and role models.

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Lotz, Heila Betrie. "The development of environmental education resource materials for junior primary education through teacher participation : the case of the We Care Primary project." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/55264.

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Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 1996.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The We Care Primary project is a participatory materials development research project, grounded through a socio-historical location of the research question in the assumptions and ideals of the critical inquiry paradigm and socially critical environmental education. This research represents an atlemptto clarifY the assumptions and orientations of socially critical environmental education as a possible 'tangible alternative' to modernist models of environmental education and educational change in a South African context. Through this project environmental education materials development emerged as a reflexive and responsive process of change in which I was able to work with teachers with in local contexts to develop resource materials which may contribute to the development of quality education and the transformation of the junior primary school phase. The emerging central thesis of this report is an ongoing questioning of the notion of participation, and a realisation of the complexities of establishing conditions for authentic participation in materials development, curriculum development and research contexts, Phase one of this research report describes a journey of inquiry toward" socially critical environmental education. This phase portrays a growing understanding of environmental education and is focused on the development of a participatory orientation to materials development. Phase two of this research journey illustrates a critical and reflexive stance to the 'weaknesses' identified in the first phase of the project. The interdependence of curriculum development, materials development and in service teacher education is explored. This phase of the research is presented as a journey with in socially critical environmental education and reflects ongoing praxis and engagement with in the assumptions of critical theory and socially critical environmental education. In phase two and three, the development of a critically reflexive stance to the assumptions guiding this study is described, and a shift in possible research orientations is highlighted. Further possibilities for research journeys beyond socially critical environmental education are presented in phase three through a tentative critique of the first two phases of this research project. This research report offers a brief insight into some of the complexities of change in the formal education sector. It demonstrates that confronting the challenges and complexities of change in realistic and meaningful ways is possibly one of the most daunting realities facing South Africans as we begin to respond to the many legacies of apartheid ideologies, modernisation, a history of mis-education and poor education, decades of social separation and increasing socioecological degradation and risk.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Ons Gee Om Primer-projek is 'n navorsingsprojek in deelnemende hulpbronontwikkeling, gegrond op die sosio-historiese plasing van die navorsingsvraag binne die aannames en ideale van die kritiese navorsingsparadigma en sosiaal-kritiese omgewingsopvoeding. Die navorsing verteenwoording 'n poging om die aannames en orienlasies van sosiaa/-kriliese omgewingsopvoeding as moonllike 'Iasbare a/lemalief' vir modemisliese modelle van omgev.'ingsopvoeding and opvoedingsverandering binne 'n Suid Afrikaanse konleks Ie verk/aar. Deur hierdie projek het hulpbronontwikkeling na yore gekom as 'n refleksiewe en responsiewe proses van verandering, waardeur ek mel onderwysers kon werk mel in plaaslike kontekse om hulpbronmateriaal te ontwikkel wat moontlik kan bydra tot die ontwikkeling van die kwaliteit van opvoeding en die transformasie van die junior primere skoolfase. Die sentrale tese van hierdie verslag is 'n voortdurende bevraa!:,rtekening van die idee van deelname, en 'n hesefvan die komp/eksileile daarvan om loeslande Ie skep wal ware dee/name verseker in hulpbronontwikkeling, kurrikulumontwikkeling en navorsingsverbande. Fase een van hierdie navorsingsverslag beskryf 'n reis van ondersoek op weg 110 sosiaal-kritiese omgewingsopvoeding. Die fase skets 'n toenemende begrip van omgewingsopvoeding en fokus op die ontwikkeling van 'n deelnemende orientasie tot hulpbronontwikkeling. Fase Iwee van hierdie navorsingsreis illustreer 'n kritiese en refleksiewe houding ten opsigte van die 'swak plekke' wat in die eerste fase ge"identifiseer is. Die interafhanklikheid van kurrikulumontwikkeling, materiaalontwikkeling and die indiensopleiding van onderwysers word ondersoek. Hierdie fase van die navorsing word voorgestel as 'n reis mel in sosiaal-kritiese omgewingsopvoeding en weerspieel voortdurende praksis en 'n betrokkenheid by die aannames van kritiese teorie en sosiaal-kritiese omgewingsopvoeding. Infases Iwee en drie word die ontwikkeling van 'n krities-refleksiewe houding ten opsigte van die aannames van hierdie studie beskryf, en 'n verskuiwing in moontlike navorsingsorientasies word uitgelig. Verdere moontlikhede vir navorsingsreise verby sosiaal-kritiese omgewingsopvoeding word infase drie uitgewys deur 'n tentatiewe kritiek op die eerste twee fases van die navorsingsprojek. Hierdie navorsingsverslag bied 'n vlugtige kykie na van die kompleksiteite van verandering in die formele onderwyssektor. Dit wil blyk dat 'n realistiese en betekenisvolle reaksie op die uitdagings en kompleksiteite van verandering moontlik een van die gedugste realiteite is waarmee Suid-Afrikaaners te kampe het in ons pogings om te reageer op die vele nalatings van apartheidsideologiee, modernisasie, 'n geskiedenis van wanopvoeding en swak opvoeding, dekades van sosiale skeiding en toenemende sosio-ekologiese degradasie en risiko's.

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Obenauer, Julie, Megan Quinn, Ying Li, and Andrew Joyner. "Including Human Population Characteristics in Ecological Niche Models for Aedes aegypti when Modeling Projected Disease Risk due to Climate Change." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/13.

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The Aedes aegypti mosquito is responsible for transmission of four vector-borne diseases that cause considerable global morbidity and mortality. Projections of the future effects of global climate change indicate that expansion of this species due to changing habitats is possible. Furthermore, since A. aegypti is highly dependent on human populations for feeding and egg-laying sites, changing human population characteristics are likely to alter the risk of exposure for humans based on geographic location. This study aims to create future potential risk maps for human exposure to A. aegypti using human population density as a predictor. Using current population density data and future growth trajectories, high-resolution human population density forecasts were created for 2050, then included as variables in ecological niche models developed using Maxent. Species occurrence data and high resolution climate data for current and future conditions (best and worst case scenarios) were included in the model, as well. Model fit indices and variable contributions indicated that the inclusion of human population density improves model accuracy for A. aegypti. Risk maps created by these models showed that areas currently adjacent to large cities within endemic regions, such as central Africa and western Brazil, are likely to see the greatest increase in risk to human populations. This corroborates current projections on increasing urbanization in the future and suggests that these models can be used to target interventions in high risk areas.

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Kilensele, Muwele Thérèse. "Limites des stratégies de conservation forestière en République Démocratique du Congo, cas de la réserve de Luki." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209069.

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Cette étude offre une vision de la conservation par zonage des écosystèmes forestiers en République Démocratique du Congo, plus précisément dans la réserve de Luki, en province de Bas Congo. L'équilibre entre les besoins des populations locales et les objectifs de conservation est reconnu aujourd'hui comme l'un des principaux défis du domaine de la conservation. Les acteurs de conservation tentent actuellement de concilier les objectifs de conservation et de développement à travers de « projets de conservation intégrés ».

L'objectif de notre étude est de mener une réflexion sur les problèmes rencontrés par les gestionnaires d’une aire protégée dans la mise en œuvre de la stratégie de conservation par zonage.

Nous avons d'abord travaillé sur l’identification des modes d'appropriation et de gestion des terres, avant et après l'implantation de l'aire protégée. Nous avons procédé à l’analyse des modalités de prise en compte des structures endogènes dans la mise en œuvre des stratégies de conservation appliquées. Pour ce faire, nous avons mené des entretiens avec des personnes ressources, des acteurs au sein des populations locales, des personnes choisies en fonction de la représentativité qu’elles incarnent. Les résultats de ces entretiens ont été couplés aux relevés de terrain réalisés dans le but de cartographier les parcours de déplacement des populations en identifiant les éléments humains d'occupation de l'espace.

Nous avons ainsi identifié et cartographié l'état de la réserve de Luki en termes de surfaces exploitées avant et après l'implantation de l'aire protégée. Ce travail nous a conduit à découvrir les inconforts fonciers subis par les populations lors de l'implantation de l'aire protégée. Des situations d’inconfort le plus souvent ignorées par les acteurs de conservation.

Après l’étude sur les modes d'appropriation et de gestion des terres, l’analyse des modalités de prise en compte des structures endogènes et la cartographie des espaces exploités, nous avons poursuivi la recherche par l’examen des effets du zonage sur le développement et sur la conservation. L'évaluation des effets du zonage sur le développement a été faite sur base des données socio-économiques relatives aux activités introduites par les projets. L'évaluation des effets du zonage sur la conservation a été faite grâce au logiciel Envi 4.6, par l'analyse de trois images satellites. Ces observations ont été mises en parallèle avec les résultats des entretiens et des enquêtes par questionnaires effectués auprès des populations de la réserve. Les entretiens ont porté sur la carbonisation du bois et sur la chasse du gibier, deux activités que nous avons jugées destructrices de la réserve.

Les résultats de nos enquêtes montrent que les structures endogènes de gestion de la terre n’ont pas été impliquées, ni dans la création de la réserve, ni dans la mise en œuvre du zonage. Il existe pourtant un comité de concertation avec un représentant de la population, mais celui-ci n’est pas représentatif de l’ensemble des lignages. Les éléments qui caractérisent l’occupation de l’espace par les populations avant la création de la réserve n’ont pas non plus été pris en compte. Dans un tel contexte, les objectifs de conservation sont difficiles atteints à cause du manque d’appropriation du zonage par les acteurs locaux. Le zonage est motivé par la conservation et la conformité au modèle de réserve de la biosphère, le souci de développement socioéconomique restant secondaire. Le premier zonage réalisé en 1937 a initié des pratiques de gestion favorables à la conservation forestière, mais les effets socioéconomiques qui en ont découlé, ont contribué à accélérer la dégradation de la forêt. Le nouveau zonage effectué en 2004 n’a pas davantage permis de maîtriser la dégradation qui s’accélère encore.

L’étude débouche sur de suggestions permettant aux aménagistes de prendre en compte les besoins des populations locales avant tout intervention d'aménagement.
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Sibane, Nomsa Virginia. "Environmental politics: the case of the Xolobeni Mining Project in Mbizana, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007574.

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This research explored the nature of conflict that arose in Xolobeni, a small area in the Mbizana Local Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and the environmental politics emanating from the arguments that supported development rather than environmental protection. The proposed mining project was known as the Xolobeni mining development project within the Amadiba Tribal Authority, an area dominated by Pondos or (Mpondos). The Xolobeni area is located between the Mzamba and Mtentu Rivers, covering some 2 867 hectares, and extends for 20km along the coast of the Mbizana Local Municipality, in the Alfred Nzo District Municipality. In 2005, the Minister of the National Department of Minerals and Energy (DME), now known as the Department of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, announced that an Australian company, Transworld Energy and Minerals (TEM) will establish a mining development project in Xolobeni to mine red sand dunes which are contained within five blocks, each named after the river at its southern boundary. These blocks were Mtentu, Sikombe, Kwanyana, Mnyameni and Mphalane. According to the Minerals and Petroleum Resources Development Act (Act 28 of 2002), the Department of Minerals and Energy is the sole custodian of the mining licence and therefore the only Department that issues mining licences. The research investigated the nature of conflict that erupted in Xolobeni after this announcement, resulting in the formation of two groups namely, the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC) which represented the communities who were against the mining project in the area and the Xolobeni Local Community (Xolco) which was a Black Economic Empowerment company that represented the communities that supported the mining project and was to receive 26 percent of the proceeds from the mining company. The purpose of the Amadiba Crisis Committee was to channel complaints and grievances of local residents emanating from the mining development project and other development to all relevant authorities so that the Constitutional rights of residents can be respected. The research also investigated the role of each stakeholder in the proposed mining project, namely, local communities in the area, environmentalists, councillors, the National Department of Minerals and Energy, the National Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, the Eastern Cape Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs (DEDEA), the traditional authority and the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature Portfolio Committee on Economic Development and Environmental Affairs. Central to this research was the level of consultation during the proposed mining project. Qualitative and quantitative research methodologies were used to collect data in Xolobeni. Interviews were conducted with the two opposing groups and other various stakeholders including the chieftaincy, environmentalists, councillors and officials in the Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs (DEDEA). The researcher used questionnaires in order to get the views of the targeted participants. Eighty questionnaires were distributed among the targeted participants but only forty five were returned. Some of the participants were reluctant to participate in this study because the mining project had not taken place. Secondary data from the Departments of Environment of Affairs nationally and provincially revealed that the Department of Minerals and Energy through its Minister, Bulelwa Sonjica, awarded the mining licence despite recommendations of both Departments not to do so. The Minister of the new Department of Mineral Resources, Susan Shabangu, withdrew the licence and gave three months to Transworld Energy and Minerals to address the outstanding issues raised in the environmental impact assessment (EIA). The data collected revealed that the proposed mining project affected all communities in the Amadiba Tribal Administrative area. The research also illustrated how the Xolobeni community organised themselves and protested against development that intended to force them to relocate from their ancestral land without proper consultation. Issues of sustainable development and environmental protection also formed part of the discussions in this research. While the mining project had stalled, it emerged that the majority of respondents in the area did not want the mining project to proceed.

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Linstad, Johanne. "Glada nyheter : En rapport om den röda gladans återkomst till Hornborgasjön och dess potentiella orsaker." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-173287.

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The purpose of this report has been to examine reason(s) behind the return of the red kite (Milvus milvus) to Hornborgasjön (a government-protected lake situated in the southwest of Sweden). The method of the study has been mainly based on observation-data reaching back to the latter part of the 19th century and ending with the year 2018, with the emphasis on the increasing numbers of nesting red kites during the 21st century. As a part of the study, email correspondence with ornithologists, mainly from Hornborgasjön field station, was also conducted, as well as comparison with other scientific research studies on the red kite. The results indicate that the red kite was a common bird of prey in the southern part of Sweden until the mid-19th century, after which the population started to decline. The main reasons seem to be both direct and indirect persecution. As a part of this the red kite, as well as many other birds of prey, were severely affected by different kinds of biocides used in the agriculture and in the forest industry. The return of the red kite seem to be a result of three factors, firstly it became protected in the 1920th, secondly a cease of the use of the most severely effecting biocides and thirdly a conservation project that started in Skåne in the mid-1970s. As the population of red kites increased in Skåne they started to extend their population northwards and thereby made their way back to Hornborgasjön.

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Sen, Ishaani. "Community management of protected areas for conservation (COMPACT) a promising approach to integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs)." 2008. http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.2/rucore10001600001.ETD.17220.

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Boya, Busquet Mireia Aran. "Rapport à la nature et stratégies intégrées de conservation et développement : le cas de São Tomé et Principe." Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/2838.

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Depuis les années 90, les Projets Intégrés de Conservation et Développement ont été présentés comme des modèles fonctionnels de développement durable pour un site spécifique dans une perspective de réalisation. Le but est d’intégrer les objectifs biologiques de la conservation aux objectifs sociaux et économiques du développement. Ces projets, qui répondent à de multiples dénominations et stratégies, sont implantés dans des contextes naturellement hétérogènes et dynamiques, où l’aménagement du territoire ne doit pas être un outil de planification étatique, désigné et imposé dans une logique conservationniste. Les aires protégées représentent une certaine vision du rapport entre l’être humain et la nature, apparue dans le contexte nord-américain avec la création des premiers grands parcs nationaux en 1870. Aujourd'hui, la forte volonté d'impliquer la population se heurte avec la difficulté de concilier la gestion de ces espaces avec les pratiques, les nécessités et les intérêts locaux. Le parc naturel Obô, qui occupe 30% du territoire de São Tomé et Principe, doit affronter la difficile intégration entre les représentations de la nature et les usages locaux avec les objectifs globaux des politiques conservationnistes, ainsi qu’avec les intérêts touristiques et économiques des investisseurs locaux et étrangers. Les représentations sociales de la nature, établissant une forme de connaissance pratique, déterminent la vision du monde et la relation qu'un certain groupe social peut avoir avec le territoire. Ainsi, chaque communauté possède ses propres mécanismes d'adaptation au milieu basés sur ce système représentationnel. Dans le cas des communautés sãotoméennes, la nature présente un caractère spirituel (associé à des croyances, des rites et des pratiques médicales traditionnelles) et utilitaire (la nature, à travers l'agriculture, la récolte ou la chasse, répond au besoin de subsistance). L’objectif de ce projet de thèse est donc de mieux comprendre la synergie existante entre savoir endogène et gestion de la biodiversité pour adapter l’aménagement du territoire à la réalité des populations qui y vivent.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Integrated Conservation and Development Projects have offered a functional model of sustainable development for specific sites within the perspective of particular projects. Their goal has been to integrate biological aspects of conservation to the social and economic aspects of development. Protected areas represent a particular vision of the relationship between man and nature, appeared in the American context with the creation of the first national parks. Currently, the wish to involve the population in the creation of protected areas faces the challenge of reconciling the management of these spaces with the local practices, needs and interests. Obô Natural Park, which occupies 30% of the territory of Sao Tome and Principe, follows the difficult process of integrating both local uses and representations of nature to the global objectives of conservationist policies while considering the touristic and economic interests of local and foreign investors. Social representations of nature, understood as a form of practical knowledge, determine the vision of the world and the relationship that a particular social group may have with its territory. Thus, based on this system, each community has its own mechanisms of environmental adaptation. In the case of the Saotomean communities, nature presents a strong spiritual (associated with beliefs, rituals and traditional medical practices) and utilitarian character (nature provides, through farming, collecting or hunting, all you need to live). The aim of this thesis is to understand the synergies between endogenous knowledge and management of biodiversity to adapt the land management process to the reality of the people who live in the particular territory of Sao Tome and Principe.

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Hoffman, Jennifer. "Evaluating the impacts of a service-learning conservation program on participants' environmental knowledge, attitudes and skills." 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/440.

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Lockwood, Andrea M. "Beyond the fences a South African case study exploring the potential for extending biodiversity conservation outside protected area boundaries in the developing world /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ71600.

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Thesis (M.E.S.)--York University, 2002. Graduate Programme in Environmental Studies.
Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-128). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pMQ71600.

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Cullman, Georgina. "Land Use, Diverse Values, and Conservation Practice in the Periphery of Makira Natural Park, Northeastern Madagascar." Thesis, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8W38200.

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This dissertation examines the intent and reality of a conservation project that aims to be participatory and to provide benefits to local landholders. I make a contribution to research about the social impacts of conservation projects as well as to scholarship that aims to improve conservation policy and practice. Using both ethnographic and ecological methods, I explored the multiple and contested values related to land use. Changing local land use practices, especially reducing swidden agriculture, is a major focus of conservation interventions in the region. The conservation project has framed this change as a technical problem, and has devised economic incentives to shift local people's land use. Because of the dissertation's interdisciplinary approach, and the sometimes contentious relations between conservation biologists and practitioners and social scientists, I begin with a review of the challenges to achieving interdisciplinary collaboration. In the second chapter, I seek to understand how a government policy that was meant to benefit forest-dwelling communities was instead experienced as disempowering and restrictive. Chapter 3 uses land-use scenarios to evaluate the multiple objectives of Makira Natural Park (i.e., biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and sustainable livelihoods support) through the lens of ecosystem services, concluding that the best strategy to meet Makira's multiple objectives is to support a broad diversity of land use types rather than eliminating some and favoring others. In Chapter 4, I demonstrate how the conservation project's reliance on an economic model of human motivation to shift land use practices relies on a set of values that are not necessarily shared by local landholders, which explains in part their lack of traction to date. I conclude with a series of recommendations for how to transform conservation practice in Makira to make it more effective, culturally appropriate, and just.

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Loon, Rael Matthew. "Community participation in integrated conservation and development projects : a case study in the Hlatikulu Valley, KwaZulu-Natal." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5781.

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Successful and convincing examples where local peoples' development needs have been effectively reconciled with biodiversity conservation remain difficult to find. One important reason for this is that little progress has been made in researching critical new areas such as developing indices to monitor qualitative concepts such as local participation. In this study, current approaches to the problems with measuring participation in Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPs) are reviewed. A theoretical framework combining the works of several practitioners is used to monitor the Nsonga Valley Forum (NVF), in the Hlatikulu Valley, Kwazulu-Natal as an example of an emerging ICDP. The NVF was formed in 1997 after a visit by the provincial parliamentary committee on Conservation and Environment. The Forum aims to act as a mouthpiece for the local Nsonga community and as a capacity building structure, while maintaining the ecological integrity of the Hlatikulu Vlei and adjacent Afromontane Hlatikulu Forest. Two sets of indicators are used in this framework. The prevalence indicators trace the nature of participation in the various stages of the development of the NVF's operation - i.e. in decision making and implementation, in benefit sharing and evaluation. The opportunity indicators refer to the level of opportunity or access available to the local people through the implementation of the Forum by analyzing its organisation and access to resources. According to this framework, the NVF would currently be classified as falling into the 'participation by consultation' category of an assumed legitimate typology of participation. Ultimately, empowerment properly defined, would be the goal of community development in the Hlatikulu Valley but would require a much greater participation of the community than is evident as present. In order to prevent biodiversity conservation and sustainable economic development from becoming no more than an attractive slogan, participatory development research needs to be replicable, cost-effective and realistic. Recommendations are accordingly made for the future assessment, monitoring and evaluation of the progress of the NVF and other similar ICDP projects.
Thesis (M.Env.Dev.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999.

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Lopes, Paulo Jose. "Strategies for sustainable rural development in Mozambique: a case study of the Chimani Transfrontier Conservation Area Project." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4758.

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This study examines the process and implementation of a conservation project in Chimanimani locality, a remote rural area located in Sussundenga district in the central province of Manica. The Chimanimani Transfrontier Conservation Area Project, as the Project became known, was one of the conservation area projects established in three provinces of Mozambique (Maputo, Gaza and Manica1) in the years following the civil conflict. In essence the Chimanimani Project was framed to enhance environmental sustainability of the targeted areas and contribute to poverty reduction through sustainable use of local natural resources. Accordingly, it was seen as a way of improving the overall quality of life of the targeted communities. The study analyses the Project efforts of utilizing the synergies between conservation and community development in rural areas where income-earning opportunities are limited. The research has focused on two of the five Chimanimani communities (Nhaedzi and Moribane) and brings to the fore evidences of the factors that have affected either positively or negatively the success of the Project.

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Nxele, Innocent Zibonele. "Public participation in wetland rehabilitation with refrence [sic] to long-term management and sustainability : a case study of Hlatikulu and Ntsikeni." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/941.

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Within wetland rehabilitation projects there has been limited research that focuses on the level and nature of participation by local people, such as individuals from communal areas and landowners from private farms. The overall aim of this study was to analyze the level and nature of participation with specific reference to the holistic long term management and sustainability of wetland rehabilitation projects in Hlatikulu and Ntsikeni, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Qualitative and quantitative research methods were employed in this study to examine the level of stakeholder participation in the projects. The Hlatikulu and Ntsikeni projects were undertaken on private land and government land (nature reserve) respectively. The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) Framework was applied to analyze the level and nature of participation by different stakeholders that were involved in the selected projects. The study revealed that not all stakeholder groups participated in each and every phase of the projects. In Hlatikulu there was a moderate level of participation from the management of private land, but a limited degree of local participation from the Nsonge community. This, to some extent is attributed to the lack organization in the Nsonge community. There are no structures or authorities through which the process of local participation can be engaged. In Ntsikeni, although the process of continuous local involvement was limited to local Chiefs and some community representatives, the process appeared to be participatory in nature. The selected representatives report back in community meetings and other relevant forums, such as the Ntsikeni Nature Reserve Management Forum, which has been operating successfully for several years. Local people participated in the rehabilitation projects mainly as paid workers, and also in providing advice in the planning processes. For both sites, the results demonstrated that there is a need to enhance and harness active local participation in order to ensure the long term management and sustainability of the Hlatikulu and Ntsikeni wetlands. Within this study, the WOCAT framework was applied to provide insights to two sites, with different land tenure and land use contexts. The results of this study suggest that the WOCAT framework has a high potential to be applied across a diversity wetland rehabilitation sites within South Africa.
Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

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Blok, Robert Edmund. "Transboundary conservation - towards an institutional framework for integrated management : a case study of the Ndumo-Tembe-Futi transfrontier conservation area." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/3332.

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