Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work

Getting Biodiversity Projects to Work

Towards More Effective Conservation and Development

This book explores both the theoretical and practical underpinnings of integrated conservation and development. It synthesizes existing experience to better inform conservationists and decision makers of the role ICDPs play in conservation and management and analyzes their successes and shortcomings.
  • Contents
  • Foreword, by Claude Martin
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • Part One: The Challenge of Linking Conservation and Development
    • 1. Integrated Conservation and Development?
    • 2. Jack of All Trades, Master of None: Inherent Contradictions Among ICD Approaches
    • 3. The Pathology of Projects
    • 4. Expecting the Unattainable: The Assumptions Behind ICDPs
  • Part Two: Applications and Issues
    • 5. Fitting ICD Into a Project Framework: A CARE Perspective
    • 6. Making Biodiversity Conservation a Land-Use Priority
    • 7. Yellowstone: A 130-Year Experiment in Integrated Conservation and Development
    • 8. Parks, Projects, and Policies: A Review of Three Costa Rican ICDPs
    • 9. Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas: The Case of the Sibuyan Mangyan Tagabukid, Philippines
    • 10. Land Tenure and State Property: A Comparison of the Korup and Kilum ICDPs in Cameroon
    • 11. Trade-off Analysis for Integrated Conservation and Development
    • 12. Transforming Approaches to CBNRM: Learning from the Luangwa Experience in Zambia
    • 13. Ecodevelopment in India
    • 14. Conservation Landscapes: Whose Landscapes? Whose Trade-Offs?
    • 15. Poverty and Forests: Sustaining Livelihoods in Integrated Conservation and Development
    • 16. Using Adaptive Management to Improve ICDPs
  • Part Three: Conclusion
    • 17. The Future of Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Building on What Works
  • Index