Libby Lunstrum, an associate professor in the School of Public Service, has published a chapter, Conservation and the production of wildlife as resource, in “Routledge Handbook of Critical Resource Geography.”
Lunstrum and her co-author say that despite wildlife’s allure of wilderness and timelessness, even animals as iconic as elephants and rhinos have been produced as a natural resource through a series of human-led interventions.
The chapter charts wildlife’s ongoing and shifting production as a resource through the practice and science of conservation, and draws attention to the values that underpin this production, Lunstrum said.