Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas II
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/25/2022
Start Time: 2:00 PM
End Time: 3:20 PM
Theme: The Changing North American Continent
Sponsor Group(s):
Protected Areas Specialty Group
, Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Specialty Group
, Applied Geography Specialty Group
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Organizer(s):
SELIMA SULTANA
, Joe Weber
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Chairs(s):
Selima Sultana,
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Description:
National parks and other protected areas are facing unprecedented challenges and changes, whether political, environmental, or social. The ‘dual mandate’ under which U.S. national parks are managed requires that providing access to the scenic and historic features of America’s national parks be balanced by environmental protections, but political and budgetary considerations make this increasingly difficult. Parks and protected areas in other countries face a variety of threats at different scales and often with no easy solutions; these affect not just the biological resources but cultural landscapes. This session will examine topics such as, but not limited to:
• Vacation travel to the national parks and other protected areas
• Race/ethnicity, gender, and changing visitation
• Changing cultural contexts of parks
• Environmental consequences of development projects within parks
• Political challenges to parks
• Climate change impacts on historical sites
• Cultural landscapes in and around protected areas
Presentation(s), if applicable
Xochizeltzin Castaneda-Camacho , St Olaf College; Mapping Spatial Patterns of Habitat Loss in Protected Areas of Arid Northern Mexico |
Terence Young, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; “The Potential African Leaders of Tomorrow”: The National Park Service’s African Student Program, 1961-1965 |
Emmanuel Akampurira, ; The political ecology of memories of dispossession: understanding the longue durée of pastoralist resistance in Queen Elizabeth National Park, in Uganda |
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Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas II
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
SELIMA SULTANA - s_sultan@uncg.edu
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