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Human dimensions of urban biodiversity: Animal-oriented organizations as influences on human-avian relations.

机译：城市生物多样性的人文维度：以动物为导向的组织对人禽关系的影响。

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Local animal-oriented organizations are an understudied urban sector, though research indicates that these groups play important roles in shaping how the urban public perceives wildlife and environmental issues and in nurturing wildlife-oriented practices. The lifestyle and political decisions that members of the public make can have considerable ramifications for biodiversity in and outside of urban regions. As deleterious human impacts on the environment continue and as urban populations become increasingly dissociated from the knowledge of what a healthy, functioning ecosystem looks like, it becomes increasingly important to comprehend how these organizations operate and who they reach. This dissertation focuses on organizations devoted to birds, a taxon around which much conservation concern, environmental education, and rehabilitation efforts exist due to the widespread presence of birds in urban areas. It inquires how these organizations relate to the urban public and what the implications of these relations are for urban nature-society relations.;The dissertation approaches these general questions through a set of specific objectives. Much of the project focuses on Los Angeles County. The first objective examines newspaper coverage of bird-related issues in order both to comprehend contemporary human-avian relations in the county and the nature of attitudes toward birds. Findings suggest that conservation issues and recreational pursuits involving birds have high salience to Los Angeles, and that these interests are strongly oriented toward native birdlife. The dissertation then turns to bird-oriented organizations operating in the county to inquire about the degree to which these groups engage populations not traditionally involved in the mainstream environmental and animal protection movements, finding that the degree to which these groups have approached non-traditional populations is variable. Groups tend to locate their programs in white, higher-income areas, and tend to interface with lower-income populations and populations of color incidentally, if at all. The following objective, however, focuses on one of the organizations with an explicit interest in approaching a low-income Latino community. It examines this group as a model for dovetailing mainstream environmental and environmental justice objectives, concluding that the organization's project may be seen as a model of "just sustainability," although the group has experienced challenges with credibility and visibility in the community. Finally, the dissertation turns to a bird-oriented advocacy group in the New York City metropolitan area to examine its work in integrating a nonnative bird population into the urban landscape and state law. The chapter has particular interest in how the advocates' campaign engaged with the bird's nonnative origins in its rhetoric, finding that they were sometimes downplayed, sometimes used to curry sympathy, and sometimes used to fashion the exotic birds as a desirable addition to the urban landscape.;Broadly, the dissertation suggests the uneven relations with the urban public demonstrated by L.A. bird-oriented groups reproduce nature-society relations in the city by failing to reach communities with less exposure to biodiverse environments and perhaps less interest in wildlife conservation; and that the tendency of some of the organizations to draw on or cultivate place attachment and place-based identity may serve to draw animals into a place-based moral community.
机译：尽管研究表明，这些以动物为导向的组织在城市地区的研究还不足，但它们在塑造城市公众如何看待野生动植物和环境问题以及培育以野生生物为导向的做法方面发挥着重要作用。公众做出的生活方式和政治决定可能会对城市区域内外的生物多样性产生重大影响。随着人类继续对环境造成的有害影响，以及城市居民越来越不了解健康，运转良好的生态系统的面貌，理解这些组织的运作方式和服务对象变得越来越重要。本论文的重点是鸟类组织，由于鸟类在城市地区的广泛存在，因此存在许多保护问题，环境教育和恢复工作的分类单元。它询问了这些组织与城市公众之间的关系，以及这些关系对城市自然与社会的关系有何影响。；论文通过一系列具体目标解决了这些一般性问题。该项目大部分集中在洛杉矶县。第一个目标是研究报纸对鸟类问题的报道，以了解该县当代人禽关系以及对鸟类态度的本质。研究结果表明，涉及鸟类的保护问题和娱乐活动对洛杉矶的重视程度很高，这些兴趣强烈地针对本地鸟类。然后，论文转向在该县开展活动的鸟类组织，询问这些群体与传统上不参与主流环境和动物保护运动的人群的接触程度，发现这些群体与非传统人群的接触程度。是可变的。群体倾向于将他们的计划定位在白人，高收入地区，并且倾向于与低收入人群和有色人群互动（如果有的话）。但是，以下目标侧重于对与低收入拉丁裔社区建立联系有明确兴趣的组织之一。它将这个小组视为与主流环境和环境正义目标相吻合的模型，认为该组织的项目可能被视为“公正的可持续性”的模型，尽管该小组在社区的信誉和知名度方面遇到了挑战。最后，论文转向纽约市大都会区的鸟类倡导小组，研究其将非本地鸟类种群纳入城市景观和州法律的工作。本章特别关注倡导者的运动如何与鸟类的修辞学上的非本土起源打交道，发现它们有时被淡化，有时被用来表达同情心，有时被用来塑造异国情调的鸟类，以作为城市景观的理想补充。广泛地，论文表明，以洛杉矶鸟类为导向的群体所表现出的与城市公众的不平衡关系，重现了城市的自然与社会关系，原因是未能接触到生物多样性环境较少且对野生动植物保护兴趣较小的社区；并且某些组织倾向于利用或培养场所依恋和基于场所的身份的趋势可能有助于将动物吸引到基于场所的道德社区中。

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  • 作者

    Seymour, Mona.;

  • 作者单位

    University of Southern California.;

  • 授予单位 University of Southern California.;
  • 学科 Geography.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2010
  • 页码 388 p.
  • 总页数 388
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:36:56

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