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Management Options for Biodiversity Protection and Population
American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
This overview paper stresses what most of the authors believe: that in order to successfully manage biodiversity, local residents and resource users must be involved, and the people who are affected by conservation projects must be partners in the projects, otherwise they will not succeed.
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Compensating local communities for conserving biodiversity: how much, who will, how and when
Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions, 1999
Large number of local communities across the world have shared unhesitatingly their knowledge about local biodiversity and its different uses with outsiders including researchers, corporations, gene collectors and of course, activists. Many continue to share despite knowing that by withholding this knowledge they could receive pecuniary advantage.
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Protected Areas: the concept and case studies
Institute of Development Studies UK, 1998
Historical development of the concept of protected areas and biodiversity, plus short case studies of Cameroon, Colombia, Spain and Zimbabwe.