Protected Areas, Sustainable Land?

Protected areas, such as nature reserves, national parks and marine conservation areas, are the main tool of nature conservation policies and are increasing on a worldwide scale. They are one of the main forms of environmental planning, and conservation institutions have increasing means at their disposal. At the same time, the goals of protected areas have become more diverse, with the involvement of more stakeholders and complex institutional frameworks. Giving an account of the extension and diversification of protected areas, this book determines whether these two processes constitute a breakdown in conservation policies. Economists, ecologists, lawyers, anthropologists and geographers analyse the various trends which are fundamental to the future of protected areas to reveal a conflicting scene where narrative around cooperation and integration hides competition between different interests. This book shows how protected areas are emerging as zones of divergent experimentations of sustainable development rather than lasting forms of integrative environmental management.

Catherine Aubertin & Estienne Rodary, both at the Institut de recherche pour le développement, France

Sustainable Development, A New Age for Conservation?, Catherine Aubertin, Florence Pinton, Estienne Rodary; Part I Redefining Protected Areas; Chapter 1 Expansion and Diversification of Protected Areas: Rupture or Continuity?, Estienne Rodary, Johan Milian; Chapter 2 Marine Protected Areas and Governance: Towards a Multidisciplinary Approach, Christian Chaboud, Florence Galletti, Gilbert David, Ambroise Brenier, Philippe Méral, Fano Andriamahefazafy, Jocelyne Ferraris; Part II New Tools?; Chapter 3 Corridors: Compulsory Passages? The Malagasy Example, Stéphanie M. Carrière, Dominique Hervé, Fano Andriamahefazafy, Philippe Méral; Chapter 4 Protected Areas and Ecological Networks: Global Environmental Management or Management of the Conservation Institutions?, Marie Bonnin; Chapter 5 Financing Protected Areas in Madagascar: New Methods, Philippe Méral, Géraldine Froger, Fano Andriamahefazafy, Ando Rabearisoa; Part III New Conservation Territories; Chapter 6 Creation of the Guyana Amazonian Park. Redistribution of Powers, Local Embodiment and Territorial Divisions, Catherine Aubertin, Geoffroy Filoche; Chapter 7 From Amerindian Territorialities to "Indigenous Lands" in the Brazilian Amazon: The Yanomami and Kayapó Cases, Bruce Albert, Pascale de Robert, Anne-Élisabeth Laques, François-Michel Le Tourneau; Chapter 8 Pastoralism and Protected Areas in West and East Africa, Jean Boutrais; Understanding Protected Areas in Globalisation, Hervé Rakoto Ramiarantsoa, Estienne Rodary;