Community-based conservation in a globalized world

Communities have an important role to play in biodiversity conservation. However, community-based conservation as a panacea, like government-based conservation as a panacea, ignores the necessity of managing commons at multiple levels, with vertical and horizontal interplay among institutions. The study of conservation in a multilevel world can serve to inform an interdisciplinary science of conservation, consistent with the Convention on Biological Diversity, to establish partnerships and link biological conservation objectives with local development objectives. Improving the integration of conservation and development requires rethinking conservation by using a complexity perspective and the ability to deal…

• UN
  United Nations Development Programme
• ID
  International Development Research Centre
• CR
  Canada Research Chairs
• SS
  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada