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Conservation and Development: The Role of Protected Areas in Sustaining Society. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. ...
SSince the mid 1990s, Bolivia has made efforts to create an enabling policy environ- ment for community forestry. The 1996 fores ...
resources of this beautiful garden”.^4 More recently, the FAO depicts the Bolivian bio- logical diversity as one of the richest ...
sector history, which are characterised by: (i) Highland Control and Lowland Concessions (1825-1952), ii) Centrally Planned Econ ...
Their principal aim was to have the Indians settle on the land to practice sedentary agriculture.^17 The role of the Missions ha ...
the mid-1980’s, when economic crisis forced the country into a World Bank-designed structural adjustment programme. The governme ...
lowlands. The problem with the reforms was that they produced strong incentives for settlers to clear the forest for agricultur- ...
reforms, only a small fraction of all forest user groups in Bolivia have secure land title, and even fewer have secure access to ...
84 % of the community leaders mentioned problems related to forest tenure. Legal access to timber products was also men- tioned ...
central, regional or municipal — is a very resource-intensive way of influencing user behavior. This is especially true if the g ...
Nineteenth-Century Bolivia: A Regional Comparison,” Journal of Latin American Studies12(2): 223-269, 1980. Hernaiz, I, and Pache ...
TThe origins of modern conservation thought are deep and complex, but the colonial roots of much twentieth century thinking are ...
to recreate a romanticised American ‘fron- tier’ experience (although often this was just a thin veneer over luxury tourism).^6 ...
century conservation.^18 In Europe, the tra- ditional meanings of ‘wilderness’ date from the time when people feared nature - fe ...
people in such supposedly ‘wild’ places has seemed an increasingly significant concep- tual and practical problem. As people hav ...
attempting to stop poaching. In medieval England, poaching was a capital offence, and even in Georgian England, the Black Act ha ...
made into reserves “for the indigenous fauna”, but this was rejected by the Governor because preservation would interfere with t ...
scale”.^35 Most commentators controlled romantic sentiment and advocated strict control of native hunting. Sir Alfred Sharpe, ac ...
laws, and end to poaching and trade in wildlife products. The strict defence of protected areas was, however, a conservation sol ...
managed to achieve biological sustainabili- ty, and the possibility that use can provide incentives to conserve biodiversity. Af ...
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