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Beneath the Reflections: Fiordland Marine Conservation Strategy: Te Kaupapa Atawhai o Te Moana o Atawhenua
(Guardians of Fiordland's Fisheries & Marine Environment, 2003) Teirney, Laurel
"'This publication is the result of work by a group known as the Guardians of Fiordland's Fisheries. The Guardians' project has provided a multi-interest forum where those involved in the environment and fisheries management of the fiords and surrounding coast have worked together across agency and sector boundaries. There has been a spirit of goodwill and co-operation between tangata whenua, commercial and recreational fishers, tourism operators, environment and community interests. The result is amazing both in the output (the various publications including this strategy) and in the strong relationships that will endure into the implementation phase and beyond. Local interested parties making decisions that affect their own locality is probably the most effective way of implementing government or any other form of policy.' Ted Loose, Chariman, Environment Southland."
Conditions for Community-Based Governance of Biodiversity
(Nordland Research Institute, 1999) Sandberg, Audun
"Endangered wild species are an important part of the international environmental discourse. This is institutionalized in a number of conventions and treaties, among them the Bern-convention, the Biodiversity Convention and the Washington convention (CITES). But also the health and life of domesticated animals are protected by international conventions like the European Convention for the protection of Animals kept for farming Purposes (European Council). In addition there are international conventions that protect the material basis for the culture and economic life of indigenous peoples and tribal peoples in independent countries: ILO-convention no. 169. "Taken together, these international environmental obligations places responsibility on the states that ratifies the conventions to protect both endangered wild animals and their natural habitats, to protect domesticated animals kept for farming purposes and to protect the material base for the culture of indigenous peoples. In the case of endangered species of predators, this places the modern state in a number of difficult dilemmas that, if not handled properly, undermines the legitimacy of both national and international environmental policies. Predators, like bears, wolves, lynx and wolverines are in their natural state opportunists who kill the most easily accessible prey. Among these are often sheep and reindeer kept by farmers in small and economically vulnerable mountain communities and by indigenous peoples who rely on pastoralism as the material base both for their economic and cultural life. It is quite obvious that it then is a serious dilemma for the modern state to protect the domesticated animals and the local and indigenous communities from the same predators that it is also protecting, in many cases from angry sheep farmers and reindeer herders who want to exterminate predators. The impotence of many modern states in providing solutions to these dilemmas also have the effect of antagonising the urban and the rural part of the environmental movement, and the growth of anti-environmental political factions. Paradoxically, a number of developing countries have had greater success with socially sustainable ways of conservation (IUCN 1997). "The report goes beyond this obvious political dilemma and searches for deeper reasons behind the growth of this type of conflicts. The motivation for this is that it is an important precondition for a continued meaningful environmental discourse to reach a deeper understanding of a number of similar or related processes at work in many localities in the world that has this character of 'environmental backlash'. If the social sciences cannot provide analytical tools that helps us to understand this phenomenon, they fail in their capacity to address contemporary social problems."
People, Protected Areas, and Global Change: Participatory Conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe
(Geographica Bernensia, 2008) Galvin, M.; Haller, Tobias
"People, Protected Areas, and Global Change is an important contribution to the literature on protected areas (PAs) and the political ecology of natural resource management and conservation. It provides a very timely analysis of 'participatory' PA governance and management, examining 'new paradigm' PA approaches which--in policy and rhetoric if not always in practice--offer alternatives to the fortress conservation approaches that have so often proved environmentally ineffective, socially disastrous and morally questionable. The editors, Marc Galvin and Tobias Haller, and thirty-one contributors 'tried to determine how the participatory approach to conservation evolved in specific settings and who profits from the new approach.' Drawing on research by thirteen research groups working in diverse regions of the global South (South America, sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia) and in Switzerland, the book offers a set of coordinated case studies that are attentive to historical, geographical, political, social, and economic contexts and dynamics."
Selling the Sea, Fishing for Power: A Study of Conflict Over Marine Tenure in Kei Islands, Eastern Indonesia
(ANU E Press, 2013) Adhuri, Dedi Supriadi
"By analysing various conflicts, this book discusses the social, political, economic and legal attributes that are attached to the practice of traditional (communal) marine tenure. Selling the Sea pushes the discourse beyond the conventional approach which looks at marine tenure only as a means of resource management, and offers a more comprehensive understanding of what marine tenure is. For those working in the areas of marine resource management and fisheries, this book is a critical but also complementary reading to the conventional discourse on the issue."
Vision for Village Tanks of Tamil Nadu
(DHAN Foundation, 2004) Seenivasan, R.; Arnad Kumar, P.
"A vision for conservation and development of the village Tanks of Tamilnadu is presented. The vision is a product of a series of stakeholders meetings organised across the state of Tamilnadu, India. The document presents the current problems and what can be done for the alleviation and restoration of them."

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