Incorporating basic needs to reconcile poverty and ecosystem services.

ABSTRACT: Conservation managers frequently face the challenge of protecting and sustaining biodiversity without producing detrimental outcomes for (often poor) human populations that depend on ecosystem services for their well-being. However, mutually beneficial solutions are often elusive and can mask trade-offs and negative outcomes for people. To deal with such trade-offs, ecological and social thresholds need to be identified to determine the acceptable solution space for conservation. Although human well-being as a concept has recently gained prominence, conservationists still lack tools to evaluate how their actions affect it in a given context. We applied the theory of human needs to conservation by building on an extensive historical application of need approaches in international developmen

SUBMITTER: Chaigneau T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7379688 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature