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Digital fire technologies and community networks: Cultivating just sociotechnical practices for living with planetary change

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Fires are expanding in frequency and intensity worldwide due to climate change and land‐use transformations. At the same time, fire often plays a regenerative role in ecosystems. Traditional and cultural practices incorporate fire use for landscape management and landscape renewal. In this complex matrix of fire ecologies, digital technologies
Jennifer Gabrys   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A qualitative evaluation of a community‐based approach to protected area law enforcement

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract People living in and around terrestrial and marine protected areas can contribute to protected area law enforcement in different ways. While the involvement of local residents is considered important for bringing benefits to both conservation and people, evaluations of community‐based approaches to protected area law enforcement are limited ...
William Sharkey   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rewilding's technological experiments: Virtual reality and scalable narratives of rewilding in the Scottish highlands

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Depictions of rewilded landscapes reveal the underlying principles shaping the future of rewilding. This paper analyses a virtual reality (VR) model of a rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands that is advertised as a vision of a rewilded nature in 50 to 100 years' time.
Nick Sidwell
wiley   +1 more source

Use of non-timber forest products by people living in tropical dry forest

open access: yesRevista Cubana de Ciencias Forestales, 2017
A study was carried out in the Quimis enclosure, located in the road Jipijapa - Manta - Portoviejo, in the canton of Jipijapa, province of Manabí, Ecuador, in order to obtain information about the properties and uses of Non-woods Forest Products (NWFPs ...
Alfredo Jiménez González   +4 more
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Care through cultivation: Indigenous Swidden agriculture as forest care

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues that the agricultural practices of Bunong swidden cultivators in northeastern Cambodia constitute relational care for forests that is fundamentally misunderstood, misrecognized, and marginalized by dominant state policies, conservation, and development paradigms. Bringing together care theory, long‐term ethnographic research,
Esther Leemann
wiley   +1 more source

Seeing both heritage and resource: A relational approach to forest owners' decision‐making

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The loss of forest habitats calls for a change in the intensity and scale at which forests are managed. With voluntary policies on the rise, there is greater focus on understanding the motivations of private forest owners. While private forest management is likely driven by both economic and non‐economic factors, previous literature has paid ...
Hanna Ekström Pigot
wiley   +1 more source

Nature‐based solutions for protected area governance: A systematic review

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Nature‐based solutions (NBSs) have been introduced as an effective approach for climate change resilience and a set of actions to conserve, restore and sustainably manage natural or modified ecosystems, while simultaneously providing benefits to human well‐being and biodiversity.
Ghader Arabi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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