Natural Connections

Natural Connections

Author: Michael Hill, John Robinson, Charles Zerner, Michael Wright, Michael Wells, Marshall W. Murphree, Kenneth Sayre, Peter Little, Daniel Bromley, David Western, Owen Lynch, Richard Donovan, Marianne Lavelle, R. Villarreal, Nick Salafsky, Janice Alcorn, Frances Seymour, Chuck Kleyneyer, Mary Pearl, Richard Bodmer, Kent Elbow, Don Tuzin, Mark Poffenberger, Scott McCreary, Fabio Feldmann, Derek Statham, Simon Metcalfe, Kent H. Redford, Jonathan Otto
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published date: 2013
ISBN: 9781559633451

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Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts.

Natural Connections focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity in rural areas. It represents the first systematic analysis of locally based efforts, and includes a comprehensive examination of cases from around the world where the community-based approach is used. The book provides:

  • an overview of community-based conservation in the context of the debate over sustainable development, poverty, and environmental decline
  • case studies from the developed and developing worlds -- Indonesia, Peru, Australia, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom -- that present detailed examples of the locally based approach to conservation
  • a review of the principal issues arising from community-based programs
  • an agenda for future action

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