Reconciling Conservation and Development: Are Landscapes the Answer?

Biotropica

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 649-652

  Sayer, Jeffrey ^a  

^a IUCN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Constructivist conservation; Landscapes; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; STAKEHOLDER;

EID: 70449464743     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2009.00575.x     Document Type: Review

References (33)

1. Bennett, A. F. J.Q Radford. 2006. Properties of land mosaics: Implications for nature conservation in agricultural landscapes. Biol. Conserv. 133 : 250 264.
2. Brockerhoff, E. G., H. Jactel, J. A. Parrotta, C. P. Quine J. A. Sayer. 2008. Plantation forests and biodiversity: Oxymoron or opportunity. Biodiv. Conserv. 17 : 925 951.
3. Curran, L. M., S. N. Trigg, A. K. McDonald, D. Astiani, Y. M. Hardiono, P. Siregar, I. Caniago E. Kasischke. 2004. Lowland forest loss in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo. Science 303 : 1000 1003.
4. Easterly, W. 2006. The white man's burden: Why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good. Penguin Press, New York, New York.
5. Fosnot, C. T. (Ed.) 1996. Constructivism, theory, perspectives and practice. Teacher's College Press, New York, New York.
6. Garnett, S. T., J. Sayer J. Du Toit. 2007. Improving the effectiveness of interventions to balance conservation and development: A conceptual framework. Ecol. Soc. 12 : 2.
7. Gunderson, L. H. C. S. Holling. 2002. Panarchy: Understanding transformations in human and natural systems. Island Press, Washington, DC.
8. Hagmann, J., E. Chuma, K. Muwira, M. Connelly P. Ficarelli. 2003. Success factors in natural resource management R&D: Lessons from practice. In B. M. Campbell J. A. Sayer (Ed.). Integrated natural resource management, CABI, pp 37 64. Wallingford, UK.
9. Hayes, T. E. Ostrom. 2005. Conserving the world's forests: Are protected areas the only way? Indiana Law Rev. 38 : 595 617.
10. International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development. Available at (accessed March 11, 2008).
11. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2007. Livelihoods and landscapes initiative. IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme, Gland, Switzerland.
12. Lafortezza, R., J. Chen, G. Sanesi T. R. Crow (Eds.). 2008. Patterns and processes in forest landscapes; multiple use and sustainable management. Springer Science+Media B.V. Heidelberg, Germany.
13. Lee, K. L. 1993. Compass and gyroscope: Integrating science and politics for the environment. Island Press, Washington, DC.
14. Lindblom, C. E. 1959. The science of muddling through. Public Administration Rev. 19 : 79 88.
15. Lindenmayer, D. B., R. J. Hobbs, R. Montague-Drake, R. J. Alexandra, A. Bennett, M. Burgman, P. Cale, A. Calhoun, V. Cramer, P. Cullen, D. Driscoll, L. Fahrig, J. Fischer, J. Franklin, Y. Haila, M. Hunter, P. Gibbons, S. Lake, G. Luck, C. MacGregor, C. McIntyre, R. Mac Nally, A. Manning, J. Miller, H. Mooney, R. Noss, H. Possingham, D. Saunders, F. Schmiegelow, M. Scott, D. Simberloff, T. Sisk, G. Tabor, B. Walker, T. Wiens, J. Woinarski E. Zavaleta. 2008. A checklist for ecological management of landscapes for conservation. Ecol. Lett. 11 : 78 91.
16. Locke, H. P. Dearden. 2005. Rethinking protected area categories and the new paradigm. Environ. Conserv. 32 : 1 10.
17. McShane, T. M. Wells. 2004. Getting biodiversity conservation projects to work: Towards more effective conservation and development. Columbia University Press, New York, New York.
18. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystems and human wellbeing, volume 2, scenarios. Island Press, Washington, DC. (accessed January 2008).
19. Meijaard, E. D. Sheil. 2007. A logged forest in Borneo is better than no forest at all. Nature 446 : 974.
20. Oates, J. 1999. Myth and reality in the rain forest: How conservation strategies are failing in West Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
21. Philipps, A. 2002. Management guidelines for IUCN category V protected areas: Protected landscapesseascapes. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
22. Salt, D. D. Lindenmayer. 2008. The bowral checklist: A framework for ecological management of landscapes. pp 1 16. Land and Water Australia, Canberra, Australia.
23. Sandker, M., B. M. Campbell, Z. Nzooh, T. Sunderland, V. Amougou, L. Defo J. A. Sayer. 2009. Exploring the effectiveness of integrated conservation and development interventions in a Central African forest landscape. Biodivers. Conserv. doi.
24. Sayer, J. A., G. Bull C. Elliott. 2008. Mediating forest transitions: Grand design or muddling through. Conserv. Soc. 6 : 320 327.
25. Sayer, J. A. B. Campbell. 2004. The science of sustainable development; local livelihoods and the global environment. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
26. Sayer, J., B. Campbell, L. Petheram, M. Aldrich, M. Ruiz Pérez, D. Endamana, Z. Nzooh Dongmo, L. Défo, S. Mariki, N. Doggart N. Burgess. 2006. Assessing environment and development outcomes in conservation landscapes. Biodiv. Conserv. 16 : 2677 2694.
27. Sayer, J. A., N. Ishwaran, J. Thorsell T. Sigaty. 2000. Tropical forest biodiversity and the world heritage convention. Ambio 29 : 302 309.
28. Sayer, J. A. S. Maginnis. 2005. Forests in landscapes: Ecosystem approaches to sustainability. Earthscan, London, UK.
29. Sheil, D. M. Boissière. 2006. Local people may be the best allies in conservation. Nature 440 : 868.
30. Simberloff, D. S., J. A. Farr, J. Cox D. W. Mehlman. 1992. Movement corridors: Conservation bargains or poor investments? Conserv. Biol. 6 : 493 504.
31. Walker, B. D. Salt. 2006. Resilience thinking: Sustaining ecosystems and people in a changing world. Island Press, Washington, DC.
32. Steins, N. A V. M. Edwards. 1999. Collective action in common pool resource management: The contribution of constructivist perspectives in existing theory. Soc. Nat. Resour. 12 : 539 557.
33. Zuidema, P., J. A. Sayer W. Dijkman. 1997. Forest fragmentation and biodiversity: The case for intermediate sized conservation areas. Environ. Conserv. 23 : 290 297.