Author: Priscilla GeigisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781613761052
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Preserving and Enhancing Communities
Author: Priscilla GeigisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781613761052
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Preserving and Enhancing Communities
Author: Elisabeth M. HaminPublisher:
ISBN: 9781558495630
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book starts from the premise that each community chooses its future every day, through the incremental decisions made by planning and zoning boards and other citizen volunteers, as well as professional staff. The challenge is to ensure that these decisions support the preservation of what is special about the community, while still fostering necessary and appropriate growth. In this volume, twenty-nine experts from a variety of fields describe in very practical terms the community preservation approach to these issues. As opposed to the top-down regulatory mechanisms that are sometimes used to manage growth, the contributors favor a more flexible, locally based approach that has proven successful in Massachusetts and elsewhere.
Advanced Introduction to Community-based Conservation
Author: Fikret BerkesPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1839102233
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Professor Fikret Berkes provides a unique introduction to the social and interdisciplinary dimensions of biodiversity conservation. Examining a range of approaches, new ideas, controversies and debates, he demonstrates that biodiversity loss is not primarily a technical issue, but a social problem that operates in an economic, political and cultural context. Berkes concludes that conservation must be democratized in order to broaden its support base and build more inclusive constituencies for conservation.
Preserving America
Author: Preserving, Protecting and Enhancing Our Neighborhoods
Author: Denver (Colo.). Community Planning and Development AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development, Urban
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Community Biodiversity Management
Author: Walter Simon de BoefPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136474862
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity are issues that have been high on the policy agenda since the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. As part of efforts to implement in situ conservation, a methodology referred to as community biodiversity management (CBM) has been developed by those engaged in this arena. CBM contributes to the empowerment of farming communities to manage their biological resources and make informed decisions on the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity. This book is the first to set out a clear overview of CBM as a methodology for meeting socio-environmental changes. CBM is shown to be a key strategy that promotes community resilience, and contributes to the conservation of plant genetic resources. The authors present the underlying concepts and theories of CBM as well as its methodology and practices, and introduce case studies primarily from Brazil, Ethiopia, France, India, and Nepal. Contributors include farmers, leaders of farmers’ organizations, professionals from conservation and development organizations, students and scientists. The book offers inspiration to all those involved in the conservation and use of agrobiodiversity within livelihood development and presents ideas for the implementation of farmers’ rights. The wide collection of experiences illustrates the efforts made by communities throughout the world to cope with change while using diversity and engaging in learning processes. It links these grassroots efforts with debates in policy arenas as a means to respond to the unpredictable changes, such as climate change, that communities face in sustaining their livelihoods.
Communities and Conservation
Author: J. Peter BrosiusPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759105065
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A group of distinguished environmentalists analyze and advocate for community-based natural resource management (CBNRM). They offer an overview of this transnational movement and its links between environmental management and social justice agendas. This book will be valuable to instructors, practitioners, and activists in environmental anthropology, justice, and policy, in cultural geography, political ecology, indigenous rights, conservation biology, and community-based cultural resource management.
Indigenous and Local Communities and Protected Areas
Author: Grazia BorriniPublisher: IUCN
ISBN: 2831706750
Category : Indigenous peoples
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Conventional approaches to managing protected areas have often seen people and nature as separate entities. They preclude human communities from using natural resources and assume that their concerns are incompatible with conservation. Protected area approaches and models that see conservation as compatible with human communities are explored. The main themes are co-managed protected areas and community conserved areas. Practical guidance is offered, drawing on recent experience, reflections and advice developed at the local, national, regional and international level.
Chicago Community Development Organizations Using Preservation to Improve Their Communities
Author: Trent L. NicholsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community development corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Conservation, Community and Personal Responsibility
Author: William Kane ReillyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civic improvement
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description