Maintaining and enhancing landscapes' beneficial contributions to a good quality of life is a major challenge of our time. Landscapes have been and are being changed by processes such as urbanization, economic development and ecological restorations which may sharply change the …
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21st-century ecology is necessarily a science of change. Understanding how and why communities and interacting species respond to transformations in global climate and human land use can help improve our ability to forecast and manage shifts in ecological interactions. In this d…
In U.S. history, the displacement of marginalized groups is unfortunately common. In many instances, displacement occurs when government authorities use eminent domain laws to seize land for large-scale projects such as parks, dams, roads, military installations, or urban develo…
Traditional architectural and preservation practices largely focus on methods and values attributed to high style architecture of prominence, overlooking elements important to vernacular neighborhoods and the communities that live within them. This fixation on the object rather …
This thesis addresses the issue of how human tampering affects a site’s preservation. I specifically examine how the causal collection of surface-level artifacts has affected archaeological interpretation of Kin Bineola –a Chacoan outlier site–over the past 40 years. This study …
On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe (JST) is enacting contested approaches of reclaiming tribal histories threatened by persistent 19th century settler colonial narratives of ethnic erasure. Legally exiled from their capital village in 1871 as a resu…
In many rural regions of Amazonia, hunting, and game meat are important sources of food and cash income but hunters who hold substantial local ecological knowledge (LEK) are often criticized for depleting wildlife. In this thesis, I examine the potential of LEK household surveys…
Conservation conflict, whether human-wildlife or human-human, and specifically those that include the public as stakeholders, is seen as one of the most influential reasons reintroduction and/or conservation of species or landscapes is difficult to accomplish. This is due to the…
This study focuses on the Kenyan Amboseli landscape, which comprises the Amboseli National Park and six neighbouring Maasai community Group Ranches, namely Mbirikani, Kuku, Kimana, Eselengei, Ologulului-Ololorashi Ologulului, and Rombo. Over the past five decades, Amboseli has b…
Algonquin Provincial Park (APP), located in south-central Ontario, spans an area of 7,635 km 2 and is a destination for over 800,000 visitors a year. These visitors include cottage owners, as cottages have been leased in APP since the early 1900s. In October 2017, policy makers …
National parks are made up of many unique and beautiful places that offer visitorschances for recreation, enjoyment of natural resources, and education. One main way parkseducate visitors about the parks and conservation is through conversation. Rangers parksreach out to visitor…
Cold-water corals are important habitat builders in the deep ocean worldwide. Despite being known for centuries, recent technological advances and deep-sea exploration has revealed cold-water corals thriving at depths of up to 6000m. Similar to their warm-water relatives, coldwa…
This dissertation advances theoretical and empirical knowledge at an especially challenging research frontier: that of the social and ecological impacts of international aid within and around national parks and other protected areas in low-income tropical countries. Systematic k…
Recreation has been a major force in enhancing the quality of life in a modern society. The provider must try to fulfil the requirements of the recreational users and has to focus on the quality of the products it delivers. As a recreational destination the National Park must of…
In the 1980s and 1990s, Southeast Asia became a world center for the establishment of national parks designed to foster the new conservation objectives of "collaborative management" and "ecotourism" development. Yet, by the start of the twenty-first century, these national parks…
This dissertation examines the effects of Indonesia's decentralization and democratization reforms on Kerinci Seblat National Park, a large protected area on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The reforms, which were implemented in the wake of the resignation of President Suharto…
This dissertation examines two distinct but interrelated processes of displacement experienced by the evictees of the Niokolo-Koba National Park, based on fieldwork (2004–2005) in the Tambacounda region of South-Eastern Senegal. While the first process concerns centralized mass …
Creation of the Kerinci Seblat National Park was initiated in 1982 as part of a rapidly growing protected area network designed to address rising national and international concerns about tropical biodiversity loss in Indonesia. While Indonesian law defines national parks as are…
In a world of declining biodiversity, Indonesia stands out in particular due to the richness of its diversity, and because of the rapidity of its decline. In response to this decline, Indonesia ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity, and additional protected areas have …