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ToolsCarmenta, Rachel, Bastos Lima, Mairon G., Choiruzzad, Shofwan A. B., Dawson, Neil, Estrada-Carmona, Natalia, Hicks, Christina, Kallis, Giorgos, Nana, Eric, Killick, Evan, Lees, Alexander, Martin, Adrian, Pascual, Unai, Pettorelli, Nathalie, Reed, James, Turnhout, Esther, Vira, Bhaskar, Zaehringer, Julie G. and Barlow, Jos (2025) Unveiling pervasive assumptions: Moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 74. ISSN 1877-3435
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Abstract
This paper reflects on the continued persistence of the idea in conservation research and practice that poverty drives biodiversity loss (the poverty-biodiversity loss association [PBLA]). We draw on evidence to show how the PBLA has proven resistant to counter-evidence and is particularly visible at local-level implementation, and is often implicit in conservation strategies. We untangle three underlying reasons that help to explain why the PBLA has persisted under a verisimilitude (seeming truth) that can leave it hiding in plain sight. In doing so, we offer conservation science and practice the means to recognise and thereby remedy this thinking where it exists, and in so doing, advance conservation towards its aims of equitable and effective delivery. We outline how the Connected Conservation model may be better equipped to challenge the disproportionate role of wealth in biodiversity decline whilst empowering biodiversity stewards and their plural knowledge, values and governance systems.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Data Availability: No data were used for the research described in the article. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | environmental science(all),social sciences(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Global Environmental Justice University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Area Studies |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2025 13:30 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jun 2025 00:31 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/99323 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101537 |
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