People's dominance of ecosystems is changing conservation. Issues of revenue, food
security, human wellbeing, and equity dominate political decisions. Protected areas are …

This book explores the emerging forms and functions of contemporary mobile borders. It
deals with issues of security, technology, migration and cooperation while addressing the …

National parks and other protected areas (PAs) are the foundation of global efforts to
conserve biological diversity. Conservation policy and practice assume that PAs are …

In the last two hundred years, the earth has increasingly become the private property of a
few classes, races, transnational corporations, and nations. Repeated claims about the" …

Abstract In South Africa, marine protected areas (MPAs) continue to be a favoured tool for
biodiversity conservation and fisheries management. Efforts to expand the network of MPAs …

Indigenous peoples live in challenging environments and engage in complex negotiations
to access their rights. Yet research on their social mobilization often stereotypes them as …

Natural resource-related conflicts can be extremely destructive and undermine
environmental protection. Since the 1990s co-management schemes, whereby the …

The concept of place attachment can assist to integrate relational values into ecosystem
service research, and assist us to rethink the notion of benefits in contemporary protected …

ABSTRACT Objectives:(1) To evaluate how ecosystem services may be utilized to either
reinforce or fracture the planning and development practices that emerged from segregation …

There is a rich literature by geographers on the spatial imagination and ambition of
conservation, and particularly the long-established strategy of creating protected areas such …