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Methods Courses
Core RMES Courses
500F Human Dimensions of Biological Conservation
Catalogue No. 132767
Instructor(s): Terre Satterfield, Kai Chan
Conservation should benefit ecosystems, non-human organisms, and current and future human populations. Historically, conservation has occurred through protected areas, whose creation has frequently entailed considerable displacement of indigenous, traditional, and land-based people. Although the pursuit of benefits to non-human organisms can be defended ethically, it has become clear that conservation without consideration of human welfare is likely to be fleeting. Accordingly, recent decades have brought considerable enthusiasm surrounding concepts like community-based conservation and ecosystem services; and, increasingly, conservationists attempt to justify conservation by its social and economic benefits. But how often have the spatial and temporal distributions of costs and benefits (and their stratification by class) been analyzed rigorously?
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