Natural Connections: Prospects for Rediscovery and Recovery - Softcover

Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts.Natural Connections focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity in rural areas. It represents the first systematic analysis of locally based efforts, and includes a comprehensive examination of cases from around the world where the community-based approach is used. The book provides: an overview of community-based conservation in the context of the debate over sustainable development, poverty, and environmental decline case studies from the developed and developing worlds -- Indonesia, Peru, Australia, Zimbabwe, Costa Rica, the United Kingdom -- that present detailed examples of the locally based approach to conservation a review of the principal issues arising from community-based programs an agenda for future action

David Western is senior conservationist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and chairman of the African Conservation Centre. He was formerly director of Kenya Wildlife Service and chairman of the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya and IUCN's African Elephant and Rhino Specialist Groups. He is the editor of Natural Connections.

Nick Salafsky is a senior program officer/scientist for BSP's Biodiversity Conservation Network. BSP is a USAID-funded consortium of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute.

Daniel W. Bromley is listed in Who's Who in Economics, and is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He is Editor of the scholarly journal LAND ECONOMICS. He is an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and holds a Visiting Professorship at Humboldt University-Berlin.Bromley's work concerns the intersection of economics, philosophy, and law. He has worked in over 20 countries on problems of economic development, environmental policy, and the institutional foundation of markets. Most recently he has been an economic advisor to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in its long-running civil war with the government of Sudan. He is currently leading a large research project on exports and household incomes in West Africa. His next book challenges two dominant ideas in the West--that liberal democracy and "free markets" represent the inevitable "end of history" pace Francis Fukuyama, and that the world is now embedded in a "clash of civilizations" pace Samuel Huntington. He will show that neither hypothesis can withstand scrutiny.