Overview
- Links biodiversity conservation theoretical concepts and the field practices of these conceptual frameworks
- Covers a wide spectrum of subjects, ranging from biology of conservation to conservation philosophy
- Innovates by incorporating the biodiversity conservation in the mainstream global political economy of the country
- Aims at being a clearly articulated and simplified narrative form that conveys complex concepts and issues in an easily readable format for diversified audiences, including decision and policy makers as well as academics
Part of the book series: Environmental History (ENVHIS, volume 12)
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reconciling Human Needs and Conserving Biodiversity: Large Landscapes as a New Conservation Paradigm
Book Subtitle: The Lake Tumba, Democratic Republic of Congo
Authors: Bila-Isia Inogwabini
Series Title: Environmental History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38728-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38727-3Published: 19 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38730-3Published: 19 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38728-0Published: 18 February 2020
Series ISSN: 2211-9019
Series E-ISSN: 2211-9027
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 382
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecology, Applied Science, multidisciplinary, Bioethics, Nature Conservation