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Dewilding 'Wolf-land': Exploring the Historical Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Coexistence in Ireland Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Dara Sands
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Complex Ways in Which Landscape Conditions and Risks Affect Human Attitudes Towards Wildlife Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 ArthurB Muneza,Bernard Amakobe,Simon Kasaine,DanielB Kramer,Mwangi Githiru,GaryJ Roloff,MattW Hayward,RobertA Montgomery
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Conservation Social Scientists in Transnational Institutions: Negotiating Hierarchies of Expertise Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 CAnne Claus
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'Rooting,' For Change: The Role of Culture Beyond Resilience and Adaptation Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Paolo Bocci
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Why the Convivial Conservation Vision Needs Complementing to be a Viable Alternative for Conservation in the Global South Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 WilhelmAndrew Kiwango,MathewBukhi Mabele
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The Biopolitics of (English) Rewilding Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Virginia Thomas
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Living with Gorillas? Lessons from Batwa-Gorillas' Convivial Relations at Bwindi Forest, Uganda Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Christine Ampumuza
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Is CITES protecting wildlife?: Assessing Implementation and Compliance Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 JaredD Margulies
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Conviviality in Disrupted Socionatural Landscapes: Ecological Peacebuilding around Akagera National Park Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Elaine (Lan Yin) Hsiao
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Patterning Conservation Flows: How Formal and Informal Networks Shape Transnational Conservation Practice Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Joel Persson,Siyu Qin,JulieG Zaehringer
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The ‘Fluid Landscape’ of the Sundarbans: Critically Reviewing the ‘Managed Retreat’ Discourse Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Prama Mukhopadhyay
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The Power of Dissonance: Inconsistent Relations Between Travelling Ideas And Local Realities in Community Conservation in Namibia's Zambezi Region Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Hauke-Peter Vehrs,Linus Kalvelage,Romie Nghitevelekwa
Environmental conservation is presented as a success story in Namibia's Zambezi Region where conservation measures have led to an enormous increase in many wildlife populations. Complementary to historically exclusive fortress-conservation strategies, inclusive projects have gained prominence in the past few decades aiming to integrate local populations into conservation projects. Perhaps the most
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Violent Entanglements: The Pittman-Robertson Act, Firearms, and the Financing of Conservation Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 JohnP Casellas Connors,ChristopherM Rea
Environmental politics in the United States have become inseparable from the politics of guns. The Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 transformed conservation policy and funding in the United States, establishing the Federal Aid to Wildlife Restoration Account, which generates public revenue for conservation through a tax on firearms, ammunition, and archery equipment. As the manufacture and purchase of
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Smart, Commodified and Encoded: Blockchain Technology for Environmental Sustainability and Nature Conservation Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Andrea Stuit,Dan Brockington,Esteve Corbera
We explore the implications of blockchain technology for conservation and environmental policy. Drawing on an analysis of 27 initiatives, we examine their goals, assumptions, visions and workings. We find that these initiatives do not yet form a coherent approach, there is too much variety in their environmental focus, and the role of blockchain technology in achieving their goals. However, they share
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The Small British Cat Debate: Conservation Non-Issues And The (Im)mobility Of Wildlife Controversies Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Alexandra Palmer
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Re-enchanting the Delhi Ridge Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Harini Nagendra
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How Will the End of Bear Bile Farming in Vietnam Influence Consumer Choice? Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 ElizabethO Davis,Diogo Veríssimo,Brian Crudge,SonH Sam,DungT Cao,PoV Ho,NhungT. H. Dang,TuD Nguyen,HienN Nguyen,TrungT Cao,JennyA Glikman
The Vietnamese Government committed to closing all bear farms in the country by 2022. Some researchers have expressed concerns that ending the commercial farming of bears, while demand for bear bile persists, could lead to increased hunting pressure on wild bear populations. In this article, we used mixed methods of questionnaires, Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs), and interviews to investigate current
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The Role of Government in a Partial Transition from Public to Private in the Expanding Australian Protected Area System Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Aidan Davison,JamieB Kirkpatrick,Julie Fielder,LilianM Pearce,Benjamin Cooke
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From Bourgeois Environmentalism to a Just Urban Commons: Despair and Hope in Amita Baviskar's Uncivil City Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Thomas Crowley
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The Chipko Movement: A People's History Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Ambika Aiyadurai,Haripriya Rangan,Amita Baviskar,Sunita Narain,Vasudha Pande
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Convivial Conservation Prospects in Europe—From Wilderness Protection to Reclaiming the Commons Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 George Iordachescu
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Altmetric Scores in Conservation Science have Gender and Regional Biases Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 ColinA Chapman,ClaireA Hemingway,Dipto Sarkar,JanF Gogarten,NilsChr Stenseth
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Human-Wildlife Coexistence: Business as Usual Conservation or an Opportunity for Transformative Change? Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2022-01-01 Kate Massarella,Valentina Fiasco
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River restoration in the time of climate change: challenges and opportunities in the Columbia River Basin Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 ColeenA Fox
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Doing Chowkidaari: Vulnerability in Village-Forest Relations and the Compulsion of Forest Work Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Adam Runacres
This article explores the conditions and perceptions of daily wage work provided by the Forest Department around Panna Tiger Reserve in Central India. Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it analyses the conditions of forest work within this context of livelihood prohibitions, the broader political economy of precarious labour, and village-forest relations in Panna district. Through different
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Conservation and Care among the Cofán in the Ecuadorian Amazon Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 MichaelS Esbach,Flora Lu,FelipeBorman Quenama
Accelerating deforestation and ecological degradation, linked to political and economic policies and agendas that endanger the health, well-being, and cultural survival of Indigenous people, present dire threats to the Amazonian biome and its inhabitants. Confronting these challenges necessitates a unified response by local and global partners. However, some conservationists, predominantly from the
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Making Decentralisation Work: A Comparative Ethnographic Analysis of Forest Conservation and Village Governance in West Bengal, India Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sumana Datta
The literature on forest conservation lacks comparative analyses of decentralisation across different sectors to understand their relative advantages and limitations. This article adopts an ethnographic approach to compare the functioning of two decentralised village-level institutions in the state of West Bengal, India: the forest protection committees created under joint forest management and the
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Conservation's All about Having a Blether and Getting People on Board: Exploring Cooperation for Conservation in Scotland Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sam Staddon
A 'blether' is a colloquial Scottish term signifying 'a lengthy chat between friends', and this paper draws its inspiration from the conservationist who suggested that 'having a blether' and 'getting people on board' is what conservation is all about. Contributing to scholarship on conservation conflict and on convivial conservation, this paper explores the 'who', 'where' and 'when' of 'having a blether'
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When the State Imposes the “Commons”: Pastoralism After the Reintroduction of the Brown Bear in the Pyrenees Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Ferran Pons-Raga,Lluís Ferrer,Oriol Beltran,Ismael Vaccaro
After the brown bear reintroduction program was launched in the Pyrenees in 1996, the French and Spanish States fostered and funded a regrouping policy to protect the sheep flocks from the bear attacks. Drawing on a comparative analysis between two Catalan districts in north-eastern Spain (Val d'Aran and Pallars Sobirà) and the Ariège district in south-western France, this article scrutinises the extent
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Decolonising Conservation Science and Practice in Tanzania Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jevgeniy Bluwstein
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To Hunt or to Protect? Discourse-coalitions in the Polish Wolf Management Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Krzysztof Niedzialkowskia,Adam Konopka,Renata Putkowska-Smoter
After the political transformation in Poland in 1989, the management of the wolf (Canis lupus) became strongly debated. The discussions concerned the need to protect the wolf, methods of protection and actors to be involved. Increasing social pressure resulted in a series of legal changes leading to the full protection of the species in 1998. Using the concept of discourse coalitions, we distinguished
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The Ethics of Reintroducing Large Carnivores: The Case of the California Grizzly Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 A Lee,AM Laird,L Brann,C Coxon,AJ Hamilton,LA Lawhon,JA Martin,N Rehnberg,BP Tyrrell,Z Welch,B Hale,PS Alagona
Efforts to reintroduce species to portions of their historic ranges are growing in number and kind. These include proposals and projects to reintroduce large carnivores in areas where these species have been absent for decades. Reintroductions, like all conservation efforts, involve not only empirical and logistical problems, but also complex normative questions. So, what are the obligations, values
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Contested Conservation, Ethnopolitics, and the State: The Case of Wilpattu Forest Complex, Sri Lanka Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Sören Köpke
Wilpattu Forest Complex, comprised of the Wilpattu National Park and adjoining forest areas in north-western Sri Lanka, was at the centre of a dispute over biodiversity conservation, deforestation and resettlement of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPSs), Muslim minorities at the end of the Sri Lankan civil war – 1983-2009. This paper traces how the majority Buddhist and the minority Muslim cleavages
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Poverty, Pandemics, and Wildlife Crime Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Michelle Anagnostou,WilliamD Moreto,CharlieJ Gardner,Brent Doberstein
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global recession and mass unemployment. Through reductions in trade and international tourism, the pandemic has particularly affected rural economies of tropical low- and middle-income countries where biodiversity is concentrated. As this adversity is exacerbating poverty in these regions, it is important to examine the relationship between poverty and wildlife crime
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Science-based Stakeholder Dialogue for Environmental Policy Implementation Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 AliceDantas Brites,Kaline de Mello,PauloAndré Tavares,JeanPaul Metzger,RicardoRibeiro Rodrigues,PauloGuilherme Molin,LuísFernando Guedes Pinto,CarlosAlfredo Joly,JoãoFrancisco Adrien Fernandes,FredericoSoares Machado,Eduardo Trani,Gerd Sparovek
Science-based stakeholder dialogue is a strategy to bring science closer to decision-making with increasing importance for the design of environmental policies. The need for such an approximation has been stressed, but documented implementations are rare. We present our experience of developing a science-based dialogue for the Brazilian Forest Code implementation and share the lessons learned. We departed
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Convivial Conservation from the Bottom Up: Human-Bear Cohabitation in the Rodopi Mountains of Bulgaria Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Svetoslava Toncheva,Robert Fletcher,Esther Turnhout
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White People and the Animals they Love Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 LisaAnn Richey
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A Path Towards the Future of Wildlife Conservation Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Divya Karnad
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A Review of the Role of Law and Policy in Human-Wildlife Conflict Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Katie Woolaston,Emily Flower,Julia van Velden,Steven White,GeorgetteLeah Burns,Clare Morrison
Interactions between people and wildlife are often mediated by laws, policies, and other governance instruments with profound implications for species conservation. Despite its importance for conservation practice, governance of these human-wildlife relationships is an under-researched area. Our research aim was to understand the link between law/policy and human-wildlife conflict (HWC) and the implications
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Engaging End-Users to Maximise Uptake and Effectiveness of a New Species Recovery Assessment: The IUCN Green Status of Species Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 MollyK Grace,HannahL Timmins,ElizabethL Bennett,Barney Long,EJ Milner-Gulland,Nigel Dudley
When developing a novel conservation assessment, tradeoffs between generality and precision, and between realism and simplicity, will inevitably need to be made. Engaging potential end-users during development can help developers navigate these tradeoffs to maximise uptake. End-user engagement can also produce feedback about external perceptions, allowing changes to be made prior to the final design
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Assembling an Ecosystem: The Making of State páramos in Colombia Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Paula Ungar
In Colombia in 2016, extraordinary upper mountain ecosystems known as páramos were legally delimited by the central state as strict conservation areas, based exclusively on maps produced with biophysical information. Inside their boundaries, most human activities were forbidden, although most páramos have been inhabited and used for centuries. I interrogate the making of these exclusionary state páramos
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Influence of Wildlife Crop Raiding on Subsistence Farmers' Food Security Adjacent to Hluhluwe Game Reserve, South Africa Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 TlouD Raphela,Neville Pillay
Worldwide, subsistence farmers have expressed concerns about food shortage due to crop raiding by wildlife. We investigated the effects of crop-raiding on homestead food security of subsistence farmers on the edge of the Hluhluwe Game Reserve, South Africa. We collected data through field inspections of farms and questionnaire surveys. The dietary diversity of larger homesteads (6-8 people) was potentially
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Who will save the Snow Leopard? And does it need saving? Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Vasant Saberwal
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Territorialising Conservation: Community-based Approaches in Kenya and Namibia Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Linus Kalvelage,Michael Bollig,Elke Grawert,Carolin Hulke,Maximilian Meyer,Kennedy Mkutu,Marie Müller-Koné,JavierRevilla Diez
Community-based Conservation seeks to strike a balance between nature conservation and economic growth by establishing spatial and institutional settings that maintain and even regain biodiversity while simultaneously allowing for sustainable land use. The implementation of community-based conservation blueprints on communal, often agronomically marginal lands, is in many southern and eastern African
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Everyday Forest Rights: Claiming Territories and Pastoral Livelihoods in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, India Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Pierre-Alexandre Paquet,Elizabeth Kuroyedov
This article explores the multiple processes of maintaining access and asserting user rights to forest space among the Van Gujjar pastoralists in North India. In particular, the Forest Rights Act of 2006 (FRA) has created an opportunity for forest dwellers across India to seek legal means to forest rights. Conducting ethnographic fieldwork, organising workshops on forest rights, and mapping traditional
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Assessment of Pest Control Services by Vertebrates in Nigerian Subsistence Maize Farms Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Murna Tela,Will Cresswell,Hazel Chapman
Global conversion of patches of natural vegetation into agricultural land is reducing the ecosystem services provided by natural patches dwelling species to farmers. For sub-Saharan African subsistence farmers, such a reduction in pest control services by birds may be a significant disadvantage. Here we explored to what extent birds provide pest control services to the staple crop maize (Zea mays)
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“They Belong Here”: Understanding the Conditions of Human-wolf Coexistence in North-western Spain Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 HannaL Pettersson,ClaireH Quinn,George Holmes,StevenM Sait
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Hunting in Malta: Illuminating a Dark Corner of European Politics of Conservation Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Frédéric Keck
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Can Philanthropy Enable Collective Action to Conserve Rivers? Insights from a Decade of Collaboration in the Colorado River Basin Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 GinaG Gilson,DustinE Garrick
Philanthropy plays an important but often invisible role in conserving rivers. We examine the influence of philanthropy on collective action and collaborative governance within the Colorado River Basin, a region where philanthropic support has been growing to achieve conservation objectives. Our short communication combines financial data, interviews, and documentary evidence to capture the opportunities
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Domesticating the Exotic? An Online Survey of Attitudes towards the International Wildlife Pet Trade Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Andrea Contina,ChristopherE Anderson,DavidC Hille,WilliamF Oakley,EliS Bridge,JeffreyF Kelly,HaleyO Smith,Jennifer Koch,LoriL Jervis
There are a variety of perspectives on wildlife management and conservation, necessitating interdisciplinary research to develop better management strategies. We answered the call to action provided by Teel et al. (2018) to integrate social sciences into conservation and explored an important but understudied issue: views on the international pet-trade of exotic animals. Some pet owners advocate the
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Rhinos as “The Mine” and the Fugitive Meanings of Illegal Wildlife Hunting Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Rebecca Witter
Most scholarship and policy documentation that examines the problem of “rhino poaching” assumes that the potential for economic gain drives impoverished people to hunt threatened and endangered wildlife illegally. The amount of money illegal hunters can extract from the lethal trade in rhinoceros' horn is extraordinary. Yet, the provocation of one convicted hunter, who referred to rhinos as “the mine”
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Ambulatory Ethnography through the ‘Living Fields’ of Cambodia Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Liza Grandia
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Assessing Foucault's Legacy in Environmental Anthropology Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Colin Hoag
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Assessing Indicators and Limitations of Food Security Objectives in Coral Reef Restoration Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Jessica Vandenberg,Austin Humphries,Carlos Garcia-Quijanoa,Amelia Moore,Richard Pollnac,Suparman Abdullah
Coral reef restoration is often presented as a marine conservation solution that provides 'win-win' outcomes. However, most studies on reef restoration have focused on the biological success, while little is known about whether social objectives are ever achieved. This study investigates a reef restoration initiative in the Spermonde archipelago, Indonesia, where food security was initially presented
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Equity and Viability in Scholarly Publishing: Charting a Path for Conservation and Society Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Pippin Anderson,Bram Büscher,Veronica Davidov,Noella Gray,Ajit Menon,Nitin Rai,Haripriya Rangan,Ananda Siddhartha
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Feral Political Ecologies?: The Biopolitics, Temporalities and Spatialities of Rewilding Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sophie Wynne-Jones,KimJ Ward,Cara Clancy,George Holmes,Kieran O’Mahony
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The Wild Heart of India: Nature and Conservation in the City, the Country, and the Wild Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Bahar Dutt
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Climate of Conquest War, Environment and Empire in North India Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Vasudha Pande
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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Sanjukta Das Gupta
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Limits. Why Malthus was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care Conservation and Society (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Brockington Dan