Role of Biodiversity Conservation in the Transition to Rural Sustainability

by Stephen S. Light

Overview

The context in which the workshop met was the need to protect the relatively healthy rural environment of recently socialist countries of eastern and central Europe from the type of capitalist development that has devastated the rural environment of western Europe and North America. The 22 papers cover the importance of dealing with biodiversity in new ways, theoretical contributions to the conservation of biodiversity on rural landscapes, how biodiversity is being integrated in practice into rural sustainability efforts, and next steps to take. Among the topics are a new agricultural policy for the US, promoting sustainable development at a regional level as an economic driver, and a model for sustainable development at the former border between East and West Germany. Only authors are indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781586033958
Publisher:	IOS Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Series:	NATO Science Series
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	v
	Preface	vii
	The Role of Biodiversity Conservation in Rural Sustainability: An Introduction	1
Section 1.	The Importance of Dealing with Biodiversity in New Ways
	A New Agricultural Policy for the United States	29
	Integration of Biodiversity in the Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Implications for Research	48
Section 2.	What are the Theoretical Contributions to the Conservation of Biodiversity on Rural Landscapes
	Institutional Innovation and Adaptive Management: Learning from Bolivia's Decentralization Experiment	63
	Building Institutional Capacity for Biodiversity and Rural Sustainability	79
	Promoting Sustainable Development at a Regional Level as an Economic Driver	95
	Toward Rural Sustainability in British Columbia: The Role of Biodiversity Conservation and Other Factors	101
	State of Biodiversity in Some Rural Areas of the Ukraine and Abilities of its Improvement	114
	Sustainable Rural Development: the Role of Community Involvement and Local Partnerships	125
	The Hickling Experience	136
	The Social-Psychological Dimension of Biodiversity Conservation	147
	Is There Anything to Learn from the Experience in the Maine Lobster Fishery?	160
Section 3.	How is Biodiversity Being Integrated in Practice into Rural Sustainability Efforts?
	Alternatives to Crisis: an Adaptive Management Model for the Red River Basin of the U.S. and Canada	173
	The Rhoen Region: A Model for Sustainable Development at the Former Border between East and West Germany	199
	The Role of Rural Communities in Biodiversity Conservation and the Transition to Sustainability: Practical Experiences from the Pacific Northwest United States	212
	Some Thoughts on Rural Sustainability in Canada--and Elsewhere	232
	An Interdisciplinary Approach for Integrating Landscape Management in the Common Agricultural Policy: Application to the Municipality of Mertola, Southern Alentejo, Portugal	254
	The Tisza River Basin: Slow Change Leads to Sudden Crisis	261
	Conservation and Restoration of the Danube River Floodplains as a Basis for Rural Sustainable Development	291
	Belarusian Polesye--A Regional Model for Transition to Sustainable Development	302
Section 4.	Where Do We Go Next?
	Summary of Conclusions and Recommendations	315
	An Epilogue: Reflections on Peasantry, Power and Security	326
Appendix A	ARW Participants	338
	Author Index	342