Three challenges for a real people-centred conservation

Brown, Katrina (2003) Three challenges for a real people-centred conservation. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 12 (2). pp. 89-92. ISSN 1466-822X

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Abstract

Many commentators attest to a paradigm shift in biodiversity conservation, away from exclusive protected areas towards more people-centred or community-based conservation. This has been referred to as ‘new conservation’. However, new conservation could be thought of as an attempt to re-label and re-package conservation and to ‘get people on board’ existing strategies. According to its critics even so-called new conservation policy, practice and institutions remain expert-driven, undemocratic and autocratic. I argue that for new conservation to become reality, then more fundamental changes in priority-setting, decision-making and organization are required. This paper presents three challenges for a real people-centred conservation: a more pluralist approach to understanding knowledge and values of different actors, greater deliberation and inclusion in decision-making, and a remodelling of institutions to support conservation.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development)
Depositing User:	Abigail Dalgleish
Date Deposited:	13 Jul 2011 11:49
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2023 16:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/33612
DOI:	10.1046/j.1466-822X.2003.00327.x

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