Biosphere reserves and traditional societies
Using examples from the maritime Pacific and Caribbean, the paper suggests that mutual benefits would result from the integration of traditional societies and their conservation knowledge into modern conservation programmes. In many areas highly adapted systems still function but often need outside support to secure spatial autonomy and to legitimize local authority over resources and environments. The creation of protected areas to benefit local peoples and to ensure their participation in moden resource management and research goals have several advantages, including gaining local support, acquiring ecologically relevant knowledge, and inheriting a decentralized and cost-efficient means for environmental monitoring and surveillance. In tropical marine areas specially, great distances, remote human populations, high costs, and limited environmental knowledge discourage effective modern conservation efforts. Many of these pjroblems could be solved by supporting local traditional conservation, which would also provide protected areas for local peoples. Of the many types of protected areas, MAB Biosphere Reserves are among the most attractive for expanding the role of traditional peoples in reserve design, management and interactive research objectives.
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| Format: | biblioteca |
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1984
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| Subjects: | RESERVA DE LA BIOSFERA, |
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