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Reinventing a square wheel: Critique of a resurgent "protection paradigm" in international biodiversity conservation

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2002

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This article presents a critical review of recent writings that argue that people-oriented approaches to conservation have largely failed to achieve their main goal: the protection of biological diversity. Based on an analysis of this problem, authors of these works conclude that biodiversity conservation initiatives should place renewed emphasis on authoritarian protection of national parks and other protected areas to safeguard critically threatened habitats worldwide.

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Community institutions, Indigenous community, Conservation, Sustainability, Local knowledge, Community development, Biodiversity conservation, Community-based conservation, Conservation debate, Indigenous people, Integrated Conservation and Development Projects (ICDPS), Protectionist argument, And sustainable use, Ecosystem Field Scale

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Society and Natural Resources 15(1): 17-40