LINKING LIVELIHOODS WITH CONSERVATION - AN ENTERPRISEBASED APPROACH TO BIOSPHERE RESERVE MANAGEMENT

Finding Common Ground: Conservation, Development and Indigenous Livelihoods in the Huascarán Biosphere Reserve, Peru

The environment and biodiversity of the Huascarán Biosphere Reserve (HBR) are threatened according to many in the region’s conservation community. This chapter explores how social, political, and economic changes in the region have affected agropastoral land uses and indigenous institutions for managing them. Here, I examine the extent to which the region’s policies of “conservation with develo...

Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihoods in India

I n a country like India, millions of people rely on products from natural ecosystems to sustain their livelihood. Natural ecosystems provide clean water from watersheds, retention of soil and soil fertility, sequestration of carbon, as well as pollinators and natural predators of pests. For these reasons, rapid, often irreversible, loss of species and ecosystems is of more than just academic c...

Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve (Biscay, Spain): Conservation against development?

The protected area approach has extended from conserving biodiversity to improving human well-being. However, the relationship between conservation and socioeconomic and cultural development continues to be controversial. This paper combines land use variables with socioeconomic and cultural variables through multivariate ordination analysis and evaluates their evolution in two areas inside and...

Sustainable Livelihoods and an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management

Linking Knowledge with Action: an approach to philanthropic funding of science for conservation

Since 2009 the Packard Foundation’s Science subprogram has been following a use‐inspired research approach to guide its funding. This report describes this approach, Linking Knowledge with Action (LKwA). LKwA is being used at the Conservation and Science program (C&S) to fund scientific research and syntheses that advance strategic objectives. This approach involves innovations in grantmakin...