GGR345H5 Chapter Notes -Natural Resource Management, Political Ecology
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Pas (protected areas) were the mainstay of conservation strategies globally through the nineteenth and twenthieth centuries. Nature not considered pristine but affected by human dev. brisitsh model of national partks, and wildlife in a ladscape, had limited influence on conservation in the developing world. The dominant model in terms of its influence on the global ideas about conservation was that developed in the usa. The political ecology of parks developing world removed people from natural lands . Unlike north america most of these lands had people that had to be cleared out. This is where the critique of the negative impact of conservation on poor rural people has its purchase. One cost is that animals are not being poached are not eating their crops. Also corruptiom greatest social impact is population displacement, loss of rights toresidence and loss of rights to resources.
