Human Dimensions of Nature Conservation.

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Addressing the challenges of nature conservation requires an understanding of people, and the work of the social, alongside the natural, sciences. The course will investigate a diversity of conservation-issue case studies including, but are not limited to, wildlife tourism, criminal harvest, invasive species (so-called), human health, human-animal conflict, and conservation prioritization. The topics will be investigated within a critical scholarly framework that evaluates different worldviews (paradigms), ways of knowing (epistemology), and communication styles (rhetoric) in conservation.