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Park Ranger Communication of Conservation Knowledge: Shaping Environmental Selves.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Park Ranger Communication of Conservation Knowledge: Shaping Environmental Selves./
Author:	Gerdes, Kayla.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	85 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International83-07.
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28965601
ISBN:	9798780631231

Park Ranger Communication of Conservation Knowledge: Shaping Environmental Selves.
Gerdes, Kayla.

Park Ranger Communication of Conservation Knowledge: Shaping Environmental Selves. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 85 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 83-07.

Thesis (M.A.)--San Diego State University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

National parks are made up of many unique and beautiful places that offer visitors chances for recreation, enjoyment of natural resources, and education. One main way parks educate visitors about the parks and conservation is through conversation. Rangers parks reach out to visitors to provide safety, offer needed information, and provide tours and scheduled talks. Additionally, rangers are charged with helping to enforce the rules in the parks to protect the resources they contain. This research focused on one national park in the western United States, to better understand rangers' methods of communicating with visitors to promote conservation. Interviews with rangers revealed an ongoing binary, or a dualism, between the need to promote both recreation and preservation in the park. Furthermore, subtensions resulting from this dualism arose. Rangers expressed the paradox in wearing their uniforms, which could come across as intimidating to marginalized populations. They also described a tension between a need to educate visitors while enforcing the rules.Additionally, there was a tension between what the NPS and Department of Interior allowed rangers to say in the park, and what the rangers really wanted to say. Lastly, there was an apparent tension, or duality, over the use of technology in the park, with some rangers believing that technological education was not as impactful. Discussion surrounding these results indicate that the role of neoliberal values and colonial history is highly relevant in the parks. The discussion also highlights the potential for science-based communication to be promoted in the parks, and shows the importance of future research in studying rangers' communication in national parks.

ISBN: 9798780631231Subjects--Topical Terms:

524709
Communication.
Subjects--Index Terms:

National parks

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