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People, protected areas and global change: participatory conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe
NCCR North South, 2008This document compares findings from in-depth research on protected area (PA) management in Latin America Africa, Asia and Europe. It describes how PAs have been managed over the last 50-100 years and considers the ecological, social and economic benefits brought by enhanced participation.DocumentProtection, politics and protest: understanding resistance to conservation
Conservation and Society, 2007This paper presents a framework to understand how conservation is resisted, particularly in protected areas and national parks. Informed largely by James Scott’s concept of ‘everyday resistance’, the paper is based on theories of subaltern politics and a review of thirty-four published case studies.DocumentLinks between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: situation analysis for arid and semi-arid lands in southern Africa
Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008Humans have always depended upon natural ecosystems to supply a range of services useful for their survival and well-being. However, with widespread urbanisation, modernisation, and globalisation, along with the primacy of capitalist economic models, the obvious reliance of humans on ecosystems has become diluted for many, and difficult to maintain for others.DocumentMoving beyond forestry laws in Sahelian countries
World Agroforestry Centre, 2008Sahelian rural populations’ needs are sourced from on-farm indigenous tree species. However, access, use and management of indigenous tree species within their territories are restricted by forestry laws. This has built suspicion and discontent between foresters and natural resource users.DocumentGender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions
International Development Research Centre, 2008This book examines the gender dimensions of natural resource exploitation and management, with a focus on Asia. It explores the uneasy negotiations between theory, policy, and practice that are often evident within the realm of gender, environment, and natural resource management.DocumentConservation and human rights
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007This paper presents a collection of articles exploring the key issues surrounding the relationship between human rights and conservation. It looks at what human rights are and what do they have to do with conservation.DocumentForests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report
Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.DocumentSafety net: protected areas and poverty reduction
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008This report looks at the role of protected areas in poverty reduction, focusing primarily on the poorest countries and on poor communities within those countries. The publication seeks to specifically review five linked questions:DocumentImpacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan social forestry program in the Sumberjaya watershed, West Lampung District of Sumatra, Indonesia
International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008This paper investigates the impacts of a social forestry programme in Hutan Kamasyarakatan (HKm), Indonesia.DocumentEngaging neoliberal conservation
Conservation and Society, 2008The growing body of work on the 'neoliberalisation of nature' has paid little attention to conservation policy and its impacts. Similarly, studies of conservation have generally overlooked the broader context of neoliberalism. This latest edition of Conservation and Society journal explores what can be gained by seeing conservation through a neoliberal lense.Pages
