This thesis explores volunteering at three heritage railways in Gwynedd, North Wales, during the period of 2016-2017. The decision to focus on heritage railways in Wales was taken as it offers an insight into a specific type of volunteering, in a unique setting which is often ov…
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Bu tez çalışmasında, ulusal ve uluslararası literatürden yararlanılarak tarihsel çevre kavramı farklı boyutları ve ilişkili olduğu farklı bağlamlarla bütünlük içersinde irdelenmiş ve gerek okul dışı eğitim uygulamaları gerekse de tarih öğretiminde taşıdığı pedagojik değeri açısı…
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 …
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…
This history of Mount Desert Island, Maine and Acadia National Park examines the issues and conflicts that arose as Mount Desert Island and the town of Bar Harbor grew from a quiet coastal village into a resort community. By tracing the developmental history of the island, this …
The National Parks of the United Kingdom are characterised by their beautiful countryside and spectacular rural landscapes. They are also significant leisure based trip attracting locations, the dominant transport mode being the private car which typically accounts for 90% of al…
Captive breeding and reintroduction are key to modern conservation, but high predation of released animals means reintroductions often fail. The captive environment can provide individuals with little opportunity to learn about predators or alarm calls. As a consequence, captive…
Chimpanzees are declining at a rate of up to 6.5% per year in some parts of Africa due to human impacts. Effective conservation relies on accurate and reliable information on population density, distribution and connectivity. Yet, traditional line transect surveys are costly to …
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 …
White-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) are hyperabundant in parts of Thousand Islands National Park because of their ecological impact on its forests. To manage the high number of deer on Hill Island, an annual population reduction occurs in the park. This study is intende…
National parks are made up of many unique and beautiful places that offer visitors chances for recreation, enjoyment of natural resources, and education. One main way parks educate visitors about the parks and conservation is through conversation. Rangers parks reach out to visi…
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…
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…