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标题：Conservation and Development in Latin America and Southern Africa: Setting the Stage
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作者：Claudia Romero ; Simone Athayde ; Jean-Gael E. Collomb 等
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2012
卷号：17
期号：2
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：The articles in this Special Feature stem from a 2010 conference (Bridging Conservation and Development inLatin America and Africa) organized by the University of Florida's Tropical Conservation Development Program, Center forAfrican Studies, and Center for Latin American Studies. The conference involved researchers and practitioners from Africa andLatin America focused on the complex and evolving relationship between conservation and development. The conferenceprovided bridges between academics and non-academics, conservation and development, and theory and practice. The resultingcomparative analyses focus on: empowerment of local institutions; enhanced capacity of local and regional stakeholders througha recognition and validation of local knowledge systems and the creation of knowledge networks; understanding of social andnatural landscapes, history, contexts, and their evolution; and the roles of economic and market forces in shaping opportunitiesfor using market-based incentives to promote conservation and development. In this introductory article we propose a conceptualframework based on the six connected pillars of natural resource characteristics, interactions of social actors, governance andparticipation, politics, information exchange, and economic issues that support spaces for both conflicts and synergies betweenconservation and development goals. Our goal is to foster informed dialogue and social learning to promote sustainability
关键词：Africa; complex social-ecological systems; conservation; development; knowledge networks; local institutions;economic incentives; Latin America