Biodiversity, Sustainability and Human Communities : Protecting beyond the Protected

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Setting the scene -- 1 Protecting beyond the protected -- Biodiversity and the fraying web of life -- On biodiversity and resilience -- On the loss of biodiversity -- Setting the aims of the text -- Biodiversity and ecosystem advocacy: some definitions and interpretations -- Incorporating people for protecting biodiversity -- Postscript: a changing world order -- REFERENCES -- Part II Policy and management -- 2 Biodiversity: threats and challenges -- Introduction -- REFERENCES -- 3 Biodiversity and biodepletion: the need for a paradigm shift -- Introduction and background -- Public support for biodiversity -- The individual's stance -- Leadership -- Institutional failures -- Perverse subsidies -- Efficient funding and biodiversity hotspots -- Protected areas: no longer the front-line strategy? -- Scientific uncertainty and public policy -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 4 People, livelihoods and collective action in biodiversity management -- Saving nature in protected areas -- Wilderness ideas -- Modern dispossessions -- Knowledges of nature -- Social capital and collective action -- Relations of trust -- Reciprocity and exchanges -- Common rules, norms and sanctions -- Connectedness, networks and groups -- Social and human capital as prerequisites for improving biodiversity -- Participation and inclusive social learning -- Lessons from inclusive social capital programmes with positive biodiversity outcomes -- Conclusions for socially inclusive biodiversity protection -- REFERENCES -- 5 Deliberative democracy and participatory biodiversity -- On deliberative democracy -- Empowerment and shared governance -- On widening the basis of governance -- Dampening the enthusiasm -- The experience of participatory policy awareness.