Conservation concessions - concept description
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2002
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Conservation concessions are a tool to make resource protection and development objectives compatible. Using this approach, government or local resources users are regularly given compensation by conservation donors in exchange for protecting the ecosystem, thus alleviating the economic pressures to exploit and degrade the ecosystem. The following are components of a conservation concession agreement:
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Payments for environmental services, Conservation strategy, Sustainable development, Biodiversity conservation, Conservation concessions, Resource protection, Development, Compensation, Economic development, Ecosystem
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Center for Applied Biodiversity Science at Conservation International