Year: 2023, 2023
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>Faced with the intersecting environmental crises of the 21st century, conservation organizations are searching for practices that produce better, more sustainable outcomes. However, they have often relied on forms of conservation which shore up rather than disrupt settler relationships to land in the form of fortress conservation and assumptions about the human-nature dualism. In this… more Full Text: Community and conservation: contemporary constructions of land protection among volunteers involved in a local land trust A Thesis Submitted to Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of …