Earthscan Conservation and Development

Name: Earthscan Conservation and Development
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Biodiversity, Wellbeing and Sustainability

By: Adrian Martin

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4 May 2017 | Edition Number 1

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212

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.91

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Initiatives for nature conservation often involve conflicts between human livelihoods and the restriction of people or activities from protected areas, reserves or national parks. The main argument of this book is that socially just conservation of nature is better for both human wellbeing and environmental sustainability. Whilst there is a history of proclaiming this to be true, there has been no previous book which presents detailed evidence to validate it. The author's starting point is that a justice analysis is a genuinely useful exercise that adds value to our understanding of contested environmental issues, and corresponding insights about how we can strive to do things better. To treat each other well is an end in itself, and a justice analysis can help us towards this end. But justice also has instrumental value: it is a means to more effectively achieve environmental outcomes. The author describes a framework of justice for which there is an emerging consensus: justice as distribution, procedure and recognition. This framework is then applied to specific approaches and case studies. The book reviews justice dimensions of a range of approaches to conservation based on concepts including Access and Benefit Sharing, Payments for Ecosystem Services and Rights-Based Approaches. Detailed case studies are drawn from East Africa, as well as China, Latin America and North America, characterised by tensions and competing claims between biodiversity conservation, poverty alleviation and the rights of indigenous people to self-determination.

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"Can nature be protected without harming local people? Just Conservation argues that it must, and shows how it can be done. Eloquently and simply, Adrian Martin makes a powerful case for placing the issue of social justice at the heart of biodiversity conservation." - Professor Bill Adams, University of Cambridge

"Adrian Martin sees the solution to this loss of biodiversity and ecosystem endangerment from a rather different perspective to the usual - that of social justice, especially for the local people... There is much that should concern us all in this book." David W. H. Walton, in the British Ecological Society Bulletin (June 2018)

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