Search for dissertations about: "environment conservation"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 125 swedish dissertations containing the words environment conservation.
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1. Becoming Wilderness : a topological study of Tarangire, Northern Tanzania 1890-2004
Abstract : Based on field and archival research, Becoming Wilderness analyses the fluid constructs of game preservation and their affect within networks and landscapes to the west of Tarangire National Park, Northern Tanzania from the late 19th Century until the present. The initial query of this thesis is how and why Tarangire comes to be separated as different from its surrounding (on the map and within policy) and what this has entailed for what is ‘within’ and ‘outside’. READ MORE
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2. The martial politics of biodiversity protection: Wildlife conservation practices in northern Kenya
Abstract : Wildlife conservation is entangled with broader conflict dynamics in pastoral and semi-arid northern Kenya and tackles livestock theft, road banditry and inter-communal conflict. The thesis aims to better understand this ‘war by conservation’, in which conservation and military-like practices address and tie into wider security issues. READ MORE
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3. Behavioural aspects of conservation breeding : Red junglefowl (Gallus gallus) as a case study
Abstract : Ett stort antal utrotningshotade djurarter ingår idag i bevarandeprogram världen över. Små populationer hålls då i skyddade miljöer, exempelvis i djurparker, och i många fall är målet att återintroducera djur till naturen. READ MORE
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4. The Burden of Responsibility : Predicaments of Environmental Life in the Caraballo Mountains, Northern Philippines
Abstract : Indigenous people are not obviously, or naturally, stewards of the environment. But when the idea that they are such custodians gains legal traction, and when indigenous land-use practices are codified to reflect environmental principles, they become a burden of responsibility that has significant consequences for the lives and the livelihoods of indigenous communities. READ MORE
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5. From Gone to Gain: Exploring the Scope of Historic Environment Compensation in Planning
Abstract : Large planning projects inserted in old cities often cause physical loss of the historic environments they encounter. Public actors face the challenge of conserving these environments, while simultaneously considering planning needs for the future. READ MORE