By William P. Stewart, Daniel R. Williams, Linda E. Kruger
The notion of “Place” has develop into favourite in average source administration, as pros more and more realize the significance of scale, place-specific meanings, neighborhood wisdom, and social-ecological dynamics. Place-Based Conservation: views from the Social Sciences bargains a radical exam of the subject, dividing its exploration into 4 vast components.
Place-Based Conservation offers a finished source for researchers and practitioners to assist construct the conceptual grounding essential to comprehend and to successfully perform place-based conservation.
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The interactions among the three types of pluralism (ontological, epistemological, and axiological) compounds the pluralism associated with each dimension. For example, the pursuit of universal, context-independent knowledge has served to constrain the ontological meanings and values of nature to the tangible utilitarian realm; epistemologically narrow what counts as legitimate means to knowledge; and marginalized the context-dependent knowledge of place and the particular (Entrikin, 1991). This same impulse for context-independent knowledge has also constrained the methods for adjudicating among competing values and preferences in conservation policy and resource management (Williams, 2002).
Histories and narratives are fundamental to social inquiry and practice because they acknowledge the past in consideration of the future and help humans to anticipate situations before they arise. They also distinguish a place-based approach from a resource-oriented one. While places are imbued with natural and social histories, the notion of resource focuses on present and future utility. Indeed, the idea of resource ignores context, strips the landscape of history, and eliminates pre-existing meanings that might constrain its use.
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