A Fighting Chance: Can Conservation Create a Platform for Peace within Cycles of Human Conflict?

Trade-Offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 253-272

  Aveling, Rosalind ^a   Anthem, Helen ^a   Lanjouw, Annette ^a  

^a FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A fighting chance conservation, creating a platform for peace within human conflict cycles; Armed conflicts, preventing remote area exploitation people and commercial activities avoiding violence and risk; Conflict, result of actual or perceived differences in needs, values and interests; Conflicts, downward spiral in motion increasing resource degradation; Conservation, platform for peace in conflict areas; Democratic republic of Congo (DRC), and deaths attributed to violence; International gorilla conservation programme (IGCP) coalition of African Wildlife Foundation, Fauna Flora International (FFI) and WWF; Key features of modern conflicts and civilian involvement; Links between conflict and natural resources; Working in conflict areas long term resilience of natural habitats requiring resilient conservationists

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EID: 84888681950     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324907.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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