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Title: | Community-Based Biodiversity Conservation in the Pacific: Cautionary Lessons in "Regionalising" Environmental Governance | Contributor(s): | Rose, Justin (author) | Publication Date: | 2008 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/13425 | Abstract: | This chapter investigates the legal and institutional aspects of the region-wide promotion of "community-based conservation and natural resource management" as an environmental governance mechanism in the Pacific Island Region. There is a clear consensus among stakeholders that community-based approaches should now form the core of in situ biodiversity conservation efforts in Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Justifications for adopting this approach are broadly consistent with those applied in other regions of the world where rural communities are collaboratively engaged in conservation and natural resource management initiatives. These justifications may be grouped into two broad categories. First, the responsible government agencies have limited technical and other capacity to coercively regulate citizens' everyday resource uses. Second, various economic, geographic, cultural and historical factors, including prevalence of subsistence livelihoods, highly valued and contested communal land tenure arrangements, and the widespread persistence of customary authority and institutions combine to indicate that in Pacific jurisdictions participatory and collaborative conservation and natural resource management approaches are likely to be more successful than either centralised regulation or individual actors negotiating within a market. | Publication Type: | Book Chapter | Source of Publication: | Biodiversity Conservation, Law + Livelihoods: Bridging the North-South Divide, p. 193-223 | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Place of Publication: | New York, United States of America | ISBN: | 9780521885034 | Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 180111 Environmental and Natural Resources Law | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified | HERDC Category Description: | B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book | Publisher/associated links: | http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/46345237 | Series Name: | IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Research Studies | Editor: | Editor(s): Michael I Jeffery, Jeremy Firestone, Karen Bubna-Litic |
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