Conservation Politics

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Johns
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Politics

scholarly journals How can traditional livelihoods find a place in contemporary conservation politics debates in India? Understanding community perspectives in Sundarban, West Bengal

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amrita Sen ◽  
Sarmistha Pattanaik
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Community Perspectives ◽  
Indian Sundarban ◽  
Conservation Politics ◽  
Ecological Relations ◽  
Conservation Conflict

Abstract We document the economic and socio-cultural vulnerability of a forest-dependent community inhabiting the forest fringe island of Satjelia in the Indian Sundarban. Using simple artisanal methods, they have practiced traditional livelihoods like fishing and collecting wild honey from the forests for more than a century. Despite having established cultural integrity and traditional occupations, this group is not indigenous, and are therefore treated as 'others' and 'settlers.' An ethnographic study describes these various forms of livelihoods and the ways that threatens local subsistence. We also document the bureaucratic and hierarchical structure of protected area (PA) management, showing it has little or no accommodation of this community's local traditional knowledge. Finally, we ask whether there is any scope for integrating 'non-indigenous' environmental knowledge, for a more egalitarian transformation of socio ecological relations within these communities. Keywords: Conservation, conflict, indigenous, political ecology, Sundarban, traditional livelihoods

Back to Nature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Heber Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Material Balance ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
Private Lives ◽  
Conservation Politics

This chapter demonstrates how conservationists pursued their central goal—a material balance and psychic renewal with a nature they thought endangered—in private lives as well as public actions. In a time when the built world had grown so complicated and consuming as to alienate many from the natural world, conservationists sought a “return to nature” in outdoor recreation, the study of nature in schools, literature, and domestic architecture. Conservation was as much about cultural change as it was an economic doctrine or a set of policies. Like conservation politics, conservation culture was aimed at escaping the artificiality and destructiveness of industrial life. By returning to nature, conservationists hoped that Americans would revitalize themselves and deepen their appreciation of the environment.

Coastal Conservation, Politics, and a New Commission

Coastal Sage ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Executive Director ◽  
Coastal Zone Management ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Coastal Conservation ◽  
Zone Management ◽  
Hard Times ◽  
Conservation Politics ◽  
Presidential Election Of 1972

Set against the backdrop of the presidential election of 1972 and Republican Richard M. Nixon’s calculated support for the federal Coastal Zone Management Act, the failed effort in California to obtain passage of a statewide law regulating the shore is detailed, followed by enactment of Proposition 20 and the California Coastal Act. Exhilaration from passage of these two foundational state laws was short-lived as the Golden State’s next governor, Republican George Deukmejian, slashed the new Coastal Commission’s budget in the early 1980s and afterward did all he could to dismantle the agency, headed by Michael L. Fischer. By then Douglas, en route to becoming the commission’s next executive director, guided it through the hard times.

Conservation Politics: The Senate Career of Clinton P. Anderson

1988 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 1025
Author(s):  
Thomas R. Dunlap ◽  
Richard Allan Baker
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Politics

How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shaun Spiers
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Conservation Politics ◽  
The Right ◽  
House Building ◽  
Growing Population

England has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particularly when it involves the loss of countryside. Addressing both sides of this critical debate, this book argues that to drive house building on the scale needed, government must strike a contract with civil society: in return for public support and acceptance of the loss of some countryside, it must guarantee high-quality, affordable developments, in the right locations. Simply imposing development, as recent governments of all political persuasions have attempted, will not work. Focusing on house building and conservation politics in England, this book demonstrates why the current model doesn't work, and why there needs to be both planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government.

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