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Theme: Ecosystem resilience and adaptive management Project name: Integrating local values into biodiversity assessment Dates / Duration: July 2001 to present
Geographic Region: International Introduction: Biodiversity is a good example of a resource that is managed locally, but is also subject to much wider claims as a public good – often a public good valued for the diffuse actual or potential value to all humanity around the world. Most funding for biodiversity management is allocated to activities designed to maximise these global values of biodiversity – usually conservation of globally rare species and habitats. But biodiversity is also valued locally, particularly be people who have strong immediate dependence on the variety of nature and long-standing rights over local natural resources. As public concerns about biodiversity management grow, so there is increasing demand for communication between local and global approaches to valuing, and hence managing, biodiversity. Better integration between local and global viewpoints in biodiversity decision-making is justifiable on grounds of democratic governance as well as for the simple pragmatic reason that excluding local people leads to poor conservation outcomes. Objectives: To critique current approaches to valuing and managing biodiversity, with a particular emphasis on how biodiversity assessment and monitoring are conducted, and to work towards practical approaches that are better able to integrate local and global perspectives on biodiversity. Key Publications: Integrating global and local biodiversity values: a review of biodiversity assessment Vermeulen, S. and Koziell, I. 2002. Project supported by: MacArthur Foundation Contact: Sonja Vermeulen sonja.vermeulen@iied.org Copyright © 2005 International Institute for Environment and Development. |
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