Centering justice in conservation solutions for people and nature
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Conservation science is more necessary than ever to address anthropogenic threats that endanger the ecosystems, biodiversity, and nature on which human well-being depends. However, despite longstanding acknowledgement of the intimate interconnections between people and nature, more work needs to be done to integrate people, especially the most marginalized, into conservation. In this dissertation, I draw on scholarship from ecology, ecosystem services, geography, environmental justice, human rights, and conservation social science to conceptualize conservation solutions that both benefit people and nature and center justice in human-dominated environments. In the first chapter, I model how policy-relevant riparian reforestation in Costa Rica can provide water quality benefits to people, and investigate whether those benefits flow to vulnerable populations. In the second chapter, I review how injustices have blocked access to nature in cities, and propose a new framework for centering justice in creating solutions to restore access. In the third chapter, I illustrate through a socio-ecological study that human/bird interactions in community gardens are an important type of nature access, and explore how they are distributed across an income gradient in the city of San Francisco. Taken together, these chapters present visions of a holistic version of conservation that centers both people and justice.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Langhans, Kelley Elizabeth |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Daily, Gretchen C |
| Thesis advisor | Daily, Gretchen C |
| Thesis advisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Thesis advisor | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Thesis advisor | Fukami, Tadashi, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Degree committee member | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Degree committee member | Fukami, Tadashi, 1972- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Biology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kelley Elizabeth Langhans. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Biology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/qr361yw2484 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Kelley Elizabeth Langhans
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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