Listed in: Environmental Studies, as ENST-310
Michelle O. Stewart (Section 01)
The nascent field known as “conservation social science” is emerging among the major conservation organizations, like the World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy, as they realize the need to move beyond their traditional biological foundations towards the social sciences. Conservation landscapes and species of interest are embedded in complex, and often long-standing, human-environmental relationships that require the retooling of conservation science to better understand and address integrated challenges. This shift towards a “people are the solution” conservation framework requires knowledge about the ecological and social concerns and implications of conservation, which is a well-suited pursuit for interdisciplinary Environmental Studies scholars. This course prepares students to engage with this emerging field by understanding what conservation social science means in the history and trajectory of conservation, and what its foci and approaches should be in the coming years. We begin the class with a historical review of the "greening" of the World Bank and the scaling up of community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) during the 1980s, which brought "the environment" and the "community" together in development and conservation agendas. Moving forward, we review critical social science literatures that examine the social impact of conservation to refine meaningful ways forward for community-centered conservation endeavors. Key themes will include: participation, traditional ecological knowledge, ecological baselines, sustainable yields and sustainability.
Requisite: ENST 120. Limited to 35 students. Fall semester. Pick Visiting Professor Stewart.
Section 01
Th 02:30 PM - 05:00 PM FAYE 217
This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park | Walley, Christine | TBD | ||||
| Hunters and Bureaucrats: Power, knowledge, and aboriginal-state relations in the southwest yukon | Nadasdy, P. | TBD | ||||
| Conservation is our government now: the politics of ecology in Papua New Guinea | West, Paige | TBD | ||||
| Imperial Nature: The world bank and struggles for social justice in the age of globalization | Goldman, M. | TBD |