Numerous initiatives and programmes were introduced to enable biodiversity conservation,
and community involvement was among these propositions. In line with such initiatives …

Situational Analysis (SA) uses analytic maps of the situation, processes and relations
identified using approaches pioneered in Grounded Theory. Creator of the method, award …

En México, las denominadas áreas naturales protegidas han enfrentado retos en común
para lograr sus objetivos de conservación. Los conflictos resultantes desde el decreto y …

Traditional communities are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, especially
given the connection with nature and its territory. Despite this, traditional knowledge has …

Local people's involvement in the management of conservation initiatives is central to
ongoing debates on the relative merits of distinct biodiversity conservation models. Since …

Abstract'Community participation'has, over the past decades, become a key component of
nature conservation initiatives worldwide.'Participation', a term that signals the involvement …

As the world faces unprecedented ecological and social changes, there is a need to better
understand the complex dynamics of social-ecological systems (SES) and the mechanisms …

Protected areas (PA) are effective means for protecting biodiversity, but less is known about
their effect on the social-ecological system (SES). Using a semi-experimental approach and …

The perceptions and values that local communities have towards protected areas are of
great value for the improvement of these territories' management. Such perceptions and …

Over the last several decades, scholars have reexamined the importance of spatiality to
human life and argued that space produces and is produced by social relationships. This …