A quick update on my recent post on the irrelevance of the IUCN classifications of protected areas. Two recent pieces of news courtesy of CIFOR that I should have included in my discussion (I wasn’t quite up to date with my blog reading): In many cases community conservation overall appears more effective than strictly protected [...]
Posts Tagged ‘protected areas’
26 Oct
Adaptive Management in Developing Countries
David Week suggested KISI is essentially about Adaptive Management. To which I would agree; Adaptive Management is a rather more grown-up term, and doesn’t necessarily exclude simple solutions, but then again I think neither should KISI, so long as you start with simple ones and evolve from there. David also wanted to know what I [...]
9 Jun
Conservation: short term pain for long term gain?
Protected areas can be good for local people in developing countries; this is the slightly surprising conclusion of a paper lead-authored from the International Food Policy Research Institute (hardly a bastion of man-the barricades hard line conservation thinking). Since the standard position of most local people in developing countries and the social scientists who document their [...]
