Operationalising both sustainability and neo-liberalism in protected areas: implications from the USA's National Park Service's evolving experiences and challenges
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DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2016.1260574
Abstract: ABSTRACT Following its 2013 Green Park Plan, the US National Park Service (NPS) has sought to achieve more sustainable operations at park level. However, a history of top-down governance, research aversion, contentious community relationships, and… read more here.
Keywords: park; park service; national park; neo liberalism ... See more keywords
Women’s Place in the National Park Service: Earning Equal Pay
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DOI: 10.1177/00910260231171396
Abstract: In most workplaces, women earn less than their male counterparts. The gender pay gap has multiple, complex, interrelated causes. Federal organizations follow several best practices to work to reduce pay inequity based on gender, but… read more here.
Keywords: women place; national park; park service; pay ... See more keywords
Is that Gun for the Bears? The National Park Service Ranger as a Historically Contradictory Figure
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DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_16_62
Abstract: The “Yellowstone Model” of exclusionary, or fortress conservation, has spread widely across the globe since 1872. While in many other countries there has been a concomitant ever-increasing militarisation of park guards, the history of the… read more here.
Keywords: ranger; park service; national park; bears national ... See more keywords