Book
Poverty and Conservation: Landscapes, People and Power
I U C N - World Conservation Union
2005
Abstract
Despite endorsements of the concept of sustainable development and the linking of sustainable development with the Millennium Development Goals, progress towards the eradication of poverty has been disappointing. High levels of rural poverty in many of the world's most biodiverse regions makes it an ethical and practical imperative to find more equitable and realistic ways of achieving conservation. Livelihoods of the rural poor and options for the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity are so intimately entwined that they are better addressed through an integrated approach irresprective if the primary motivation is one of development or one of conservation. The question is not about promoting poverty reduction over conservation, but about acknowledging that both poverty reduction and conservation are important objectives and that it is often necessary to address both in order to achieve either. [Book Synopsis}
Details
- Title
- Poverty and Conservation: Landscapes, People and Power
- Authors
- Robert J Fisher (Author) - University of SydneyStewart Maginnis (Author) - International Union for Conservation of Nature-IUCN, SwitzerlandWilliam Jackson (Author) - International Union for Conservation of Nature-IUCN, SwitzerlandEdmund Barrow (Author) - International Union for Conservation of Nature-IUCN, SwitzerlandSally Jeanrenaud (Author) - International Union for Conservation of Nature-IUCN, Switzerland
- Publisher
- I U C N - World Conservation Union
- Date published
- 2005
- ISBN
- 283170880X
- Organisation Unit
- Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450181902621
- Output Type
- Book
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