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Reconciling Human Needs and Conserving Biodiversity: Large Landscapes as a New Conservation Paradigm - The Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic of Congo (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Reconciling Human Needs and Conserving Biodiversity: Large Landscapes as a New Conservation Paradigm - The Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic of Congo (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Environmental History, 12
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Protected areas have often been defined as the backbones of
biodiversity conservation. Protected areas have often been defined
as the backbones of biodiversity conservation. However, legitimate
demands formulated by countries for their economic development,
growing human populations, forest fragmentations, and needs of
local communities for sustainable livelihoods are also pressing
demands on protected areas, stringently pressuring conservation
community to identify means to reconcile long term biodiversity
conservation and communities' livelihoods. Hence, integrating
conservation activities within the global framework of economic
development of countries with high biodiversity had become part of
conservation paradigms. Integrated development as a route to
conservation, strict protected areas, community managed areas, etc.
have been tried but resulted in debatable outcomes in many ways.
The lukewarm nature of these results brought 'landscape approach'
at the front of biodiversity conservation in Central Africa. Since
the late 1990s the landscape approach uses large areas with
different functional attributes and shifts foundational
biodiversity conservation paradigms. Changes are brought to the
role traditionally attributed to local communities, aligning
sustainable development with conservation and stretching
conservation beyond the confines of traditional protected areas.
These three shifts need a holistic approach to respond to different
conservation questions. There are only a few instances where the
landscape experience has been scientifically documented and lessons
learnt drawn into a corpus of knowledge to guide future
conservation initiatives across Central Africa. To subjugate one
biodiversity conservation landscape as one case study emerged as a
matter of urgency to present the potential knowledge acquired
throughout the landscape experiment, including leadership and
management, processes tried, results (at least partially) achieved,
and why such and such other process or management arrangement were
been chosen among many other alternatives, etc. The challenges of
the implementation of the conservation landscape approach needed
also to be documented. This book responds to the majority of these
questions; drawing its content from the firsthand field knowledge,
it discusses these shifts and documents what has been tried, how
successful (unsuccessful) it was, and what lessons learnt from
these trials. Theoretical questions such as threat index, and
ecological services, etc. are also discussed and gaps in knowledge
are identified.
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