Rainer Roth
Biographic Data
| ID | 76455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rainer Roth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rainer |
| FAMILY NAME | Roth |
| SIGNATURE | ROTH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2296-6386 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Decolonizing conservation, a global conversation: Views from Turtle Island, Tanzania, and Thailand
What does it mean to decolonize conservation? This question was posed to a group of scholars and activists working in different places around the world – the US, Canada, Tanzania, and Thailand. This article is an edited transcript of the conversation that ensued. The goal of this paper is to keep that conversation alive and continue to add nuance and curiosity to the question as it unfolds in similar and different places around the world. A key f…
Catalysing Transformative Change in Conservation: Lessons Learned From a Decolonial Conservation Partnership
Conservation faces a legitimacy crisis—inadequately protecting nature while marginalising the very people and societies shown to be most successful at conserving nature. Scholars and the global community are increasingly recognising that respecting, protecting, and elevating Indigenous land and water governance contributes to greater outcomes for people and nature. In the face of the dual climate and biodiversity crises, the challenge and the opp…
The potential for Indigenous-led conservation in urbanized landscapes in Canada
Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) are an important pathway and governance system for area-based conservation led by Indigenous Peoples. While IPCAs have been established across rural and northern regions of Canada, they have received little attention in urbanized landscapes, even though all of Canada’s urban areas coincide with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis territory (and thereby underlying Indigenous jurisdiction) and the majori…
Conservation for self-determination: Salween Peace Park as an Indigenous Karen conservation initiative
States have long used protected areas to consolidate control over Indigenous Peoples’ territories, undermining community-based governance and access to resources. Despite this history, Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly designating their own protected areas to defend ancestral territories and assert self-determination. This paper examines Indigenous conservation politics in the Salween Peace Park in Kawthoolei, an autonomous ter…
Indigenous and decolonial futures: Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas as potential pathways of reconciliation
Crown governments, the conservation sector, academics, and some Indigenous governments, communities, and organizations are framing Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)—a newly recognized form of Indigenous-led conservation in Canada—as advancing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Yet it is often unclear what is being, or could be, reconciled through IPCAs. While highly diverse, IPCAs are advanced by Indigenous Nations, government…
Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada
Wilderness” revisited: Is Canadian park management moving beyond the “wilderness” ethic
This paper questions whether the rescaling of conservation practice in Canada to include local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, and private market‐based actors represents a move away from wilderness‐thinking in conservation, and what implications this might have for the future of conservation in Canada. We explore the links between Cronon's “wilderness” ethic and coloniality, racism/sexism/classism, and political economy, and the extent to which…
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation
Despite broad recognition of the value of social sciences and increasingly vocal calls for better engagement with the human element of conservation, the conservation social sciences remain misunderstood and underutilized in practice. The conservation social sciences can provide unique and important contributions to society's understanding of the relationships between humans and nature and to improving conservation practice and outcomes. There are…
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimension…
Agrarian Change and Ethnic Politics: Restructuring of Hmong and Shan Labour and Agricultural Production inNorthernThailand
Ethnic politics are an important, but under-examined, dynamic in the restructuring of agrarian labour. This paper examines how the discursive construction of ethnic identity has facilitated the particular form of agrarian intensification and labour restructuring under way in the uplands ofThailand. Agricultural intensification, followed by the promotion of 'safe' and then 'organic' production, has relied upon the construction ofHmong farmers as e…
Market-oriented conservation governance: The particularities of place
The challenges of mapping complex indigenous spatiality: From Abstract Space to Dwelling Space
Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation, replace indigenous conceptions of territory and property, and to create conflict. This paper starts from the premise that the problem is not mapping per se, but the conception of abstract space we allow to frame and guide…
Processing Person Descriptions: How Does Text Coherence Influence Encoding and Retrieval of Person Information
Two experiments investigate the processing of person descriptions that consist of a number of statements about the characteristics of a person. In one condition, each statement refers to a single person attribute and in the other condition, causal (e.g., because) and additive (e.g., and) conjunctions are introduced to verbally link the statements. In a free recall experiment, it is found that the introduction of verbal links enhances participants…
Rooted networks, relational webs and powers of connection: Rethinking human and political ecologies
Two-dimensional maps in multi-dimensional worlds: A case of community-based mapping in Northern Thailand
On the colonial margins and in the global hotspot: Park–people conflicts in highland Thailand
Forest resource management in Thailand bears the mark of its historical position on the margins of colonial power and its present position in a biodiversity hotspot. During the colonial era, British forestry in Burma and India had a fundamental influence on the knowledge and techniques used in Thai forest management. More recently, international conservation agendas and organisations have influenced the ways in which the Thai government regulates…
Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand
Roth, R. 2004. Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand. Ecology and Society 9(3): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01186-090305
Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
The effect of change in surface roughness on the precipitation regime in the coastal area of NE-Brazil
Rooted networks, relational webs and powers of connection: Rethinking human and political ecologies
Market-oriented conservation governance: The particularities of place
The challenges of mapping complex indigenous spatiality: From Abstract Space to Dwelling Space
Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation, replace indigenous conceptions of territory and property, and to create conflict. This paper starts from the premise that the problem is not mapping per se, but the conception of abstract space we allow to frame and guide…
Two-dimensional maps in multi-dimensional worlds: A case of community-based mapping in Northern Thailand
On the colonial margins and in the global hotspot: Park–people conflicts in highland Thailand
Forest resource management in Thailand bears the mark of its historical position on the margins of colonial power and its present position in a biodiversity hotspot. During the colonial era, British forestry in Burma and India had a fundamental influence on the knowledge and techniques used in Thai forest management. More recently, international conservation agendas and organisations have influenced the ways in which the Thai government regulates…
Wilderness” revisited: Is Canadian park management moving beyond the “wilderness” ethic
This paper questions whether the rescaling of conservation practice in Canada to include local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, and private market‐based actors represents a move away from wilderness‐thinking in conservation, and what implications this might have for the future of conservation in Canada. We explore the links between Cronon's “wilderness” ethic and coloniality, racism/sexism/classism, and political economy, and the extent to which…
Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand
Roth, R. 2004. Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand. Ecology and Society 9(3): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01186-090305
Indigenous and decolonial futures: Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas as potential pathways of reconciliation
Crown governments, the conservation sector, academics, and some Indigenous governments, communities, and organizations are framing Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)—a newly recognized form of Indigenous-led conservation in Canada—as advancing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Yet it is often unclear what is being, or could be, reconciled through IPCAs. While highly diverse, IPCAs are advanced by Indigenous Nations, government…
Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada
Agrarian Change and Ethnic Politics: Restructuring of Hmong and Shan Labour and Agricultural Production inNorthernThailand
Ethnic politics are an important, but under-examined, dynamic in the restructuring of agrarian labour. This paper examines how the discursive construction of ethnic identity has facilitated the particular form of agrarian intensification and labour restructuring under way in the uplands ofThailand. Agricultural intensification, followed by the promotion of 'safe' and then 'organic' production, has relied upon the construction ofHmong farmers as e…
The effect of change in surface roughness on the precipitation regime in the coastal area of NE-Brazil
Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia
On the colonial margins and in the global hotspot: Park–people conflicts in highland Thailand
Forest resource management in Thailand bears the mark of its historical position on the margins of colonial power and its present position in a biodiversity hotspot. During the colonial era, British forestry in Burma and India had a fundamental influence on the knowledge and techniques used in Thai forest management. More recently, international conservation agendas and organisations have influenced the ways in which the Thai government regulates…
Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand
Roth, R. 2004. Spatial Organization of Environmental Knowledge: Conservation Conflicts in the Inhabited Forest of Northern Thailand. Ecology and Society 9(3): 5. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-01186-090305
Two-dimensional maps in multi-dimensional worlds: A case of community-based mapping in Northern Thailand
Rooted networks, relational webs and powers of connection: Rethinking human and political ecologies
Processing Person Descriptions: How Does Text Coherence Influence Encoding and Retrieval of Person Information
Two experiments investigate the processing of person descriptions that consist of a number of statements about the characteristics of a person. In one condition, each statement refers to a single person attribute and in the other condition, causal (e.g., because) and additive (e.g., and) conjunctions are introduced to verbally link the statements. In a free recall experiment, it is found that the introduction of verbal links enhances participants…
The challenges of mapping complex indigenous spatiality: From Abstract Space to Dwelling Space
Participatory mapping has become an indispensable tool in the struggle of indigenous peoples to claim their rights to land and resources. It has also, however, come under criticism for its potential to increase state regulation, replace indigenous conceptions of territory and property, and to create conflict. This paper starts from the premise that the problem is not mapping per se, but the conception of abstract space we allow to frame and guide…
Market-oriented conservation governance: The particularities of place
Agrarian Change and Ethnic Politics: Restructuring of Hmong and Shan Labour and Agricultural Production inNorthernThailand
Ethnic politics are an important, but under-examined, dynamic in the restructuring of agrarian labour. This paper examines how the discursive construction of ethnic identity has facilitated the particular form of agrarian intensification and labour restructuring under way in the uplands ofThailand. Agricultural intensification, followed by the promotion of 'safe' and then 'organic' production, has relied upon the construction ofHmong farmers as e…
Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation
Despite broad recognition of the value of social sciences and increasingly vocal calls for better engagement with the human element of conservation, the conservation social sciences remain misunderstood and underutilized in practice. The conservation social sciences can provide unique and important contributions to society's understanding of the relationships between humans and nature and to improving conservation practice and outcomes. There are…
Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation
It has long been claimed that a better understanding of human or social dimensions of environmental issues will improve conservation. The social sciences are one important means through which researchers and practitioners can attain that better understanding. Yet, a lack of awareness of the scope and uncertainty about the purpose of the conservation social sciences impedes the conservation community's effective engagement with the human dimension…
Wilderness” revisited: Is Canadian park management moving beyond the “wilderness” ethic
This paper questions whether the rescaling of conservation practice in Canada to include local and Indigenous communities, NGOs, and private market‐based actors represents a move away from wilderness‐thinking in conservation, and what implications this might have for the future of conservation in Canada. We explore the links between Cronon's “wilderness” ethic and coloniality, racism/sexism/classism, and political economy, and the extent to which…
Protected areas and extractive hegemony: A case study of marine protected areas in the Qikiqtani (Baffin Island) region of Nunavut, Canada
Conservation for self-determination: Salween Peace Park as an Indigenous Karen conservation initiative
States have long used protected areas to consolidate control over Indigenous Peoples’ territories, undermining community-based governance and access to resources. Despite this history, Indigenous Peoples around the world are increasingly designating their own protected areas to defend ancestral territories and assert self-determination. This paper examines Indigenous conservation politics in the Salween Peace Park in Kawthoolei, an autonomous ter…
Indigenous and decolonial futures: Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas as potential pathways of reconciliation
Crown governments, the conservation sector, academics, and some Indigenous governments, communities, and organizations are framing Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs)—a newly recognized form of Indigenous-led conservation in Canada—as advancing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples. Yet it is often unclear what is being, or could be, reconciled through IPCAs. While highly diverse, IPCAs are advanced by Indigenous Nations, government…
The potential for Indigenous-led conservation in urbanized landscapes in Canada
Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs) are an important pathway and governance system for area-based conservation led by Indigenous Peoples. While IPCAs have been established across rural and northern regions of Canada, they have received little attention in urbanized landscapes, even though all of Canada’s urban areas coincide with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis territory (and thereby underlying Indigenous jurisdiction) and the majori…
Decolonizing conservation, a global conversation: Views from Turtle Island, Tanzania, and Thailand
What does it mean to decolonize conservation? This question was posed to a group of scholars and activists working in different places around the world – the US, Canada, Tanzania, and Thailand. This article is an edited transcript of the conversation that ensued. The goal of this paper is to keep that conversation alive and continue to add nuance and curiosity to the question as it unfolds in similar and different places around the world. A key f…
Catalysing Transformative Change in Conservation: Lessons Learned From a Decolonial Conservation Partnership
Conservation faces a legitimacy crisis—inadequately protecting nature while marginalising the very people and societies shown to be most successful at conserving nature. Scholars and the global community are increasingly recognising that respecting, protecting, and elevating Indigenous land and water governance contributes to greater outcomes for people and nature. In the face of the dual climate and biodiversity crises, the challenge and the opp…
Geography (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (10 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Indigenous (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Environmental resource management (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Cambodian History and Society (5 works)