TY - CHAP
T1 - Introduction: Biocultural diversity and the participation of local communities in national and global conservation
AU - Camacho-Benavides, Claudia
AU - Porter-Bolland, Luciana
AU - Ruiz-Mallén, Isabel
AU - McCandless, Susannah R.
PY - 2013/7/1
Y1 - 2013/7/1
N2 - © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York. All rights are reserved. Much of the world's biodiversity is found in areas of human settlement, where people are highly dependent on natural resources for their subsistence. In 1995, more than one billion people were living in 25 biodiversity hotspots of priority for conservation. However, the global tendency has been for official biodiversity conservation measures (i.e., protected areas) to often exclude communities from decision-making or consider their participation and presence as detrimental. Some authors follow this conventional approach, supporting the strict protection of areas important for biodiversity and ecosystem services against people's intervention. In contrast, other authors argue that rural and indigenous communities have developed a cumulative body of local ecological knowledge, beliefs, and practices important for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
AB - © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media New York. All rights are reserved. Much of the world's biodiversity is found in areas of human settlement, where people are highly dependent on natural resources for their subsistence. In 1995, more than one billion people were living in 25 biodiversity hotspots of priority for conservation. However, the global tendency has been for official biodiversity conservation measures (i.e., protected areas) to often exclude communities from decision-making or consider their participation and presence as detrimental. Some authors follow this conventional approach, supporting the strict protection of areas important for biodiversity and ecosystem services against people's intervention. In contrast, other authors argue that rural and indigenous communities have developed a cumulative body of local ecological knowledge, beliefs, and practices important for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4614-7956-7_1
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4614-7956-7_1
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781461479567
SN - 146147955X
SN - 9781461479550
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - Community Action for Conservation: Mexican Experiences
ER -