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Morality and the development of national parks: Social and political negotiations in Abel Tasman National Park (New Zealand) and in Park Adula (Switzerland)

Description: Das Projekt "Morality and the development of national parks: Social and political negotiations in Abel Tasman National Park (New Zealand) and in Park Adula (Switzerland)" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Zürich, Geographisches Institut durchgeführt. National parks are considered to be the most important global conservation tool. Since the establishment of Yellowstone at the end of the 19th century, the national park concept has been transferred to a large and astonishingly diverse number of political, social and environmental settings world-wide. Following this global proliferation (18 parks or park projects of different kinds exist in Switzerland alone), national parks and protection areas, particularly those located in the global south countries, have become a large and complex topic for political ecologists studying within the fields of contemporary human geography. Within this topic, political ecologists have highlighted how inherently political this form of land use is, as well as the important role that specific social, political, historical, economic and environmental contexts play in park negotiations, and in the types of spaces and places that are produced and reproduced. This project will undertake a comparison of the Abel Tasman national park of New Zealand and Park Adula candidate national park of Switzerland. The aim here is to explore environmental evaluations and the justifications attached to these evaluations, in their specific social, political and environmental contexts, in order to identify and understand distinctive moral foundations of park negotiations. Key emphasis will be placed on understanding the way that moralities are reflected in the spaces and nature produced in parks, and what moralities are embedded in the meanings and understandings attached to national parks. Taking up the call for a transfer of global south political ecological insights and methods to global north contexts (and thus closing a gap), a comparison will be used as a method rather than an aim, to explore and contrast the role of the contexts on the moral values within the production of national park spaces. The theoretical framework for understanding and comparing these moralities will engage with Thévenot, Moody & Lafaye (2000) work on cultural comparisons of patterns of evaluation and justification, with an aim to view the effect that these moral struggles have on the production and reproduction of spaces of and places in national parks. In both case studies ethnographic methods and analysis of documents (including text and images) will be used to gain understandings of the moralities embedded within the ordinary practices of park actors as they participate in park negotiations. A strong component of this comparative aim is the close collaboration of researchers, including two PhD students based at the Universities of Fribourg and Zurich, in the development and implementation of data collection and analysis methodologies. This projects contribution to broader debates is thus twofold: first, to put the role of morality onto the agenda of research and management of national parks in the global north. Second, to go a step further than stating that context is important in environmental deb

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Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT

Tags: Kellerwald-Edersee ? Berchtesgadener Land ? Fribourg ? Zürich ? Skigebiet ? Ökologie ? Umweltauswirkung ? Main ? Schweiz ? Kind ? Umweltbelastung ? Konservierung ? Neuseeland ? Projektförderung ? Fallstudie ? Flächennutzung ? Geographie ? Gewerbebetrieb ? Nationalpark ? Naturpark ? Parkanlage ? Politikberatung ? Historischer Park ? Beobachtungsfläche ? Wirkung ? Arbeitsplatz ? Bewertung ? Umweltpolitik ? Naturschutz ? Globale Aspekte ? Umweltschutz ? Datenerhebung ? Werkzeug ? Antragsteller ? Ökologischer Vollkommenheitsgrad ?

License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0

Language: Deutsch

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Time ranges: 2014-06-01 - 2017-05-31

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