Pro-poor Conservation: The Elusive Win-Win for Conservation and Poverty Reduction?
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| Author(s) | Roe, D. Elliott, J. |
| Date | March 2006 |
| Reference type | Journal Article |
| Source name | Policy Matters |
| Journal | Vol 14 |
| Pages | pp. 53-63 |
| Publisher | IUCN, Gland |
Summary
Biodiversity plays a major and very often critical role in the livelihoods of a high proportion of the world’s population. And yet, development agencies have often undervalued the potential role that biodiversity conservation can play in poverty reduction, while conservation organisations have generally viewed poverty concerns as outside their core business. The UK Department for International Development (DFID) recently conducted an examination of the linkages between wildlife and poverty and reviewed the scope for reducing poverty through wildlife-based interventions. Four themes are addressed: community based wildlife management, pro-poor wildlife tourism, sustainable ‘bushmeat’ management and pro-poor conservation. This paper summarises the key findings of that study and then explores in depth one of the ways forward identified by the study - “pro-poor conservation” - and the issues and challenges it raises.
Themes
Poverty-Environment Linkages
Available from
http://www.iucn.org/themes/ceesp/Publications/newsletter/PM14-Section%20I-part2.pdf
Related records above this one:
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (Organisation O0040)
- Department for International Development (DFID), UK (Organisation O0018)