Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics
For hundreds of millions of people, biodiversity is about eating, staying healthy, and finding shelter. Meeting these people’s basic needs should receive greater priority in the conservation agenda.Wild and semi-wild plants and animals contribute significantly to nutrition, health care, income, and...
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| description | For hundreds of millions of people, biodiversity is about eating, staying healthy, and finding shelter. Meeting these people’s basic needs should receive greater priority in the conservation agenda.Wild and semi-wild plants and animals contribute significantly to nutrition, health care, income, and culture in developing countries, and the poorest and most vulnerable people often rely on those resources most. Depleting those resources or making them inaccessible can impoverish these people even further. ‘Pro-poor conservation’—that is, conservation that aims to support poor people—explicitly seeks to address basic human needs. Such an emphasis has many potential synergies with more conventional conservation goals. Nonetheless, pro-poor conservation requires a distinct attitude to gauging conservation outcomes and a different approach to conservation science. Biologists can make a vital contribution. |
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| spelling | CGSpace196982025-01-24T14:11:54Z Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics Kaimowitz, D. Sheil, Douglas community development biodiversity conservation democracy development hunting multiple use poverty protected areas habitats utilization subsistence For hundreds of millions of people, biodiversity is about eating, staying healthy, and finding shelter. Meeting these people’s basic needs should receive greater priority in the conservation agenda.Wild and semi-wild plants and animals contribute significantly to nutrition, health care, income, and culture in developing countries, and the poorest and most vulnerable people often rely on those resources most. Depleting those resources or making them inaccessible can impoverish these people even further. ‘Pro-poor conservation’—that is, conservation that aims to support poor people—explicitly seeks to address basic human needs. Such an emphasis has many potential synergies with more conventional conservation goals. Nonetheless, pro-poor conservation requires a distinct attitude to gauging conservation outcomes and a different approach to conservation science. Biologists can make a vital contribution. 2007 2012-06-04T09:12:38Z 2012-06-04T09:12:38Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/19698 en Kaimowitz, D., Sheil, D. 2007. Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics . Biotropica 39 (5) :567û574. ISSN: 0006-3606. |
| spellingShingle | community development biodiversity conservation democracy development hunting multiple use poverty protected areas habitats utilization subsistence Kaimowitz, D. Sheil, Douglas Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics |
| title | Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics |
| title_full | Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics |
| title_fullStr | Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics |
| title_short | Conserving what and for whom? why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics |
| title_sort | conserving what and for whom why conservation should help meet basic human needs in the tropics |
| topic | community development biodiversity conservation democracy development hunting multiple use poverty protected areas habitats utilization subsistence |
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