Walking Potatoes & Wilder-Beasts: An Examination Of The Socio-Ecological Relationship Between Humans And Mammals In Urban Agriculture

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dc.contributor.advisorPodur, Justin
dc.contributor.authorBuckvold-Beirne, Elle Clare
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-07T11:06:31Z
dc.date.available2024-11-07T11:06:31Z
dc.date.copyright2024-06-24
dc.date.issued2024-11-07
dc.date.updated2024-11-07T11:06:30Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractThis project explores the positive and negative interactions and conflicts that arise between the people and mammals working, visiting, and living in urban farms and community gardens. This involved an anonymous survey of people that work and grow in the research sites, and the use of trail cameras to capture the mammals that visited the sites. The study examined two urban agricultural sites from August to November 2022, in Toronto, ON: one urban farm and one community garden, both with proximity to urban wildlife habitat. Growers have a complicated, nuanced relationship with the various species living in and benefitting from these miniature agricultural landscapes. Trail cameras at both sites captured numerous species, as well as several individuals who made repeated visits. Conflicts at both sites arose from the eating and spoiling of crops, and damage to infrastructure by wildlife, but some participants felt positively about their interactions with some species.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42432
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSustainability
dc.subjectAnimal behavior
dc.subjectUrban planning
dc.subject.keywordsUrban agriculture
dc.subject.keywordsUrban agroecology
dc.subject.keywordsUrban wildlife
dc.subject.keywordsMammal behavior
dc.subject.keywordsUrban species richness
dc.subject.keywordsSustainability
dc.subject.keywordsUrban planning
dc.subject.keywordsUrban food systems
dc.subject.keywordsSustainable food systems
dc.subject.keywordsUrban habitat restoration
dc.subject.keywordsUrban conservation
dc.subject.keywordsUrban socio-ecological relationships
dc.subject.keywordsSocio-ecological relationships
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-nature relationships
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-wildlife relationships
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-mammal interactions
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-wildlife interactions
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-wildlife conflict and coexistence
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-wildlife conflict
dc.subject.keywordsHuman-wildlife coexistence
dc.subject.keywordsEcosystem services
dc.subject.keywordsEnvironmental understanding
dc.subject.keywordsUrban camera traps
dc.subject.keywordsCamera traps
dc.subject.keywordsUrban camera trapping
dc.subject.keywordsStriped skunk (mephitis mephitis)
dc.subject.keywordsCoyote (canis latrans)
dc.subject.keywordsEastern grey squirrel (scuirus carolinensis)
dc.subject.keywordsOpossum (didelphis virginiana)
dc.subject.keywordsWhite-tailed deer (odocoileus virginianus)
dc.subject.keywordsRats (rattus rattus and rattus norvegicus)
dc.subject.keywordsAmerican mink (neogale or neovision vision)
dc.subject.keywordsGroundhog (marmota monax)
dc.subject.keywordsRaccoon (procyon lotor)
dc.titleWalking Potatoes & Wilder-Beasts: An Examination Of The Socio-Ecological Relationship Between Humans And Mammals In Urban Agriculture
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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