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  People, protected areas and global change: participatory conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe

  NCCR North South, 2008

  This 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.
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  Protection, politics and protest: understanding resistance to conservation

  Conservation and Society, 2007

  This 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.
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  Links between ecosystem services and poverty alleviation: situation analysis for arid and semi-arid lands in southern Africa

  Eldis Poverty Resource Guide, 2008

  Humans 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.
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  Moving beyond forestry laws in Sahelian countries

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2008

  Sahelian 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.
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  Gender and natural resource management: livelihoods, mobility and interventions

  International Development Research Centre, 2008

  This 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.
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  Conservation and human rights

  International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (World Conservation Union), 2007

  This 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.
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  Forests and the biodiversity convention: independent monitoring of the implementation of the expanded programme of work: summary report

  Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008

  This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity.
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  Safety net: protected areas and poverty reduction

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2008

  This 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:
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  Impacts of the Hutan Kamasyarakatan social forestry program in the Sumberjaya watershed, West Lampung District of Sumatra, Indonesia

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2008

  This paper investigates the impacts of a social forestry programme in Hutan Kamasyarakatan (HKm), Indonesia.
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  Engaging neoliberal conservation

  Conservation and Society, 2008

  The 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.

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