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La crisis económica y las políticas de austeridad de la última década han transformado la gestión del patrimonio natural. Mientras las administraciones públicas han aplicado recortes presupuestarios y de personal que limitan su acción, han surgido nuevas estrategias procedentes de la sociedad civil, como colectivos locales, grupos ecologistas y empresas. De ahí que hoy nos encontremos ante un cambio de paradigma con importantes consecuencias socioambientales. Desde el enfoque metodológico propio de la antropología ambiental y el trabajo etnográfico, este libro plantea dos líneas de reflexión principales. Por un lado, examina cómo este modelo descentralizado y descentralizador de la conservación se implementa en distintos contextos, observando particularidades y elementos comunes que ponen en evidencia una tendencia global. Por otro, ofrece un análisis crítico de lo que significa la gestión del patrimonio natural en sí misma desde el campo de las relaciones humano-ambientales y de la conservación, apostando por nuevas perspectivas que enriquecen la comprensión de los cambios de modelo. Este recorrido por espacios naturales protegidos de Europa y Latinoamérica da las claves para repensar el presente del patrimonio natural y, sobre todo, para replantear el futuro.

Conservacio de la natura --- Monuments naturals --- Protecció ambiental --- Espais naturals protegits Política ambiental Gestió ambiental

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Environmental protection --- Nature conservation --- Environmental protection. --- Nature conservation. --- Conservation of nature --- Nature protection --- Protection of nature --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Conservation of natural resources --- Applied ecology --- Conservation biology --- Endangered ecosystems --- Natural areas --- Environmental sciences --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Environmental Engineering --- Protecció ambiental --- Conservació de la natura --- Conservació dels recursos naturals

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This title critically assesses the foundations, content and implications of biocultural rights and develops new perspectives and ideas concerning their potential applicability for promoting the socio-economic interests of indigenous people and local communities. It further explores the controversial relationship of interdependence and conflict between conservation of environment and protection of human rights.

Biodiversity conservation --- Indigenous peoples --- Environmental protection. --- Law and legislation. --- Ecology. --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Human ecology --- Traditional ecological knowledge --- Environmental law --- Ecology --- Conservació de la diversitat biològica --- Protecció ambiental --- Aborígens --- Autòctons --- Comunitats autòctones --- Comunitats indígenes --- Indígenes --- Grups autòctons --- Nacions autòctones --- Nadius --- Poblacions aborígens --- Poblacions autòctones --- Poblacions indígenes --- Pobles aborígens --- Pobles autòctons --- Pobles indígenes --- Pobles nadius --- Races aborígens --- Races auctòctones --- Races indígenes --- Races natives --- Grups ètnics --- Relacions racials --- Dones aborígens --- Indis d'Amèrica --- Antropologia cultural --- Tribus --- Conservació ambiental --- Conservació del medi ambient --- Protecció del medi ambient --- Protecció mediambiental --- Ciències ambientals --- Agricultura de conservació --- Avaluació d'impacte ambiental --- Conservació de la natura --- Conservació dels recursos naturals --- Control de la contaminació --- Principi de precaució --- Protecció del paisatge --- Protecció dels sòls --- Normes ISO 14000 --- Política ambiental --- Qualitat ambiental --- Conservació de la biodiversitat --- Preservació de la biodiversitat --- Preservació de la diversitat biològica --- Gestió dels ecosistemes --- Biocultural Rights --- Ethnology --- Dones indígenes --- Indigenisme

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This book describes the myriad components of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region. The contributors elaborate on challenges, failures, and successes in efforts to conserve the HKH, its indigenous plants and animals, and the watershed that runs from the very roof of the planet via world-rivers to marine estuaries, supporting a human population of some two billion people. Readers will learn how the landforms, animal species and humans of this globally fascinating region are connected, and understand why runoff from snow and ice in the world’s tallest mountains is vital to inhabitants far downstream. The book comprises forty-five chapters organized in five parts. The first section, Landscapes, introduces the mountainous watersheds of the HKH, its weather systems, forests, and the 18 major rivers whose headwaters are here. The second part explores concepts, cultures, and religions, including ethnobiology and indigenous regimes, two thousand years of religious tradition, and the history of scientific and research expeditions. Part Three discusses policy, wildlife conservation management, habitat and biodiversity data, as well as the interaction of animals and humans. The fourth part examines the consequences of development and globalization, from hydrodams, to roads and railroads, to poaching and illegal wildlife trade. This section includes studies of animal species including river dolphins, woodpeckers and hornbills, langurs, snow leopards and more. The concluding section offers perspectives and templates for conservation, sustainability and stability in the HKH, including citizen-science projects and a future challenged by climate change, growing human population, and global conservation decay. A large assemblage of field and landscape photos, combined with eye-witness accounts, presents a 50-year local and wider perspective on the HKH. Also included are advanced digital topics: data sharing, open access, metadata, web portal databases, geographic information systems (GIS) software and machine learning, and data mining concepts all relevant to a modern scientific understanding and sustainable management of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region. This work is written for scholars, landscape ecologists, naturalists and researchers alike, and it can be especially well-suited for those readers who want to learn in a more holistic fashion about the latest conservation issues.

Landscape ecology. --- Landscape ecology --- History. --- Ecology --- Environmental management. --- Conservation biology. --- Ecology . --- Political science. --- Spirituality. --- Landscape Ecology. --- Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management. --- Conservation Biology/Ecology. --- Governance and Government. --- Spiritual-mindedness --- Philosophy --- Religion --- Spiritual life --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Nature conservation --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Management --- Conques hidrogràfiques --- Ecologia del paisatge --- Protecció ambiental --- Hindu Kush (Afganistan : Serralada) --- Conservació ambiental --- Conservació del medi ambient --- Protecció del medi ambient --- Protecció mediambiental --- Ciències ambientals --- Agricultura de conservació --- Avaluació d'impacte ambiental --- Conservació de la natura --- Conservació dels recursos naturals --- Control de la contaminació --- Principi de precaució --- Protecció del paisatge --- Protecció dels sòls --- Normes ISO 14000 --- Política ambiental --- Qualitat ambiental --- Ecologia --- Ecologia espacial --- Paisatge --- Conques de cursos d'aigua --- Conques de drenatge --- Conques de rius --- Conques fluvials --- Relleu (Geografia)

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This book explores how individuals and communities perceive and understand climate change using their observations of change in the world around them. Because processes of climatic change operate at spatial and temporal scales that differ from those of everyday practice, the phenomenon can be difficult to understand. However, flora and fauna, which are important natural and cultural resources for human communities, do respond to the pressures of environmental change. Humans, in turn, observe and adapt to those responses, even when they may not understand their causes. Much of the discussion about human experiences of our changing climate centers on disasters and extreme events, but we argue that a focus on the everyday, on the microexperiences of change, has the advantage of revealing how people see, feel, and make sense of climate change in their own lives. The chapters of this book are drawn from Asia, Europe, Africa, and South and North America. They use ethnographic inquiry to understand local knowledge and perceptions of climate change and the social and ecological changes inextricably intertwined with it. Together, they illustrate the complex process of coming to know climate change, show some of the many ways that climate change and our responses to it inflict violence, and point to promising avenues for moving toward just and authentic collaborative responses.

Plant systematics. --- Plant taxonomy. --- Climate change. --- Biodiversity. --- Plant ecology. --- Anthropology. --- Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography. --- Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts. --- Plant Ecology. --- Human beings --- Botany --- Plants --- Ecology --- Biological diversification --- Biological diversity --- Biotic diversity --- Diversification, Biological --- Diversity, Biological --- Biology --- Biocomplexity --- Ecological heterogeneity --- Numbers of species --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Botanical classification --- Botanical systematics --- Botanical taxonomy --- Classification --- Plant biosystematics --- Plant classification --- Plant systematics --- Plant taxonomy --- Systematic botany --- Systematics (Botany) --- Taxonomy, Plant --- Plant taxonomists --- Environmental aspects --- Climatic changes. --- Phytoecology --- Vegetation ecology --- Floristic ecology --- Canvi climàtic --- Protecció ambiental --- Etnografia --- Antropologia --- Antropologia cultural --- Antropologia social --- Usos i costums --- Conservació ambiental --- Conservació del medi ambient --- Protecció del medi ambient --- Protecció mediambiental --- Ciències ambientals --- Agricultura de conservació --- Avaluació d'impacte ambiental --- Conservació de la natura --- Conservació dels recursos naturals --- Control de la contaminació --- Principi de precaució --- Protecció del paisatge --- Protecció dels sòls --- Normes ISO 14000 --- Política ambiental --- Qualitat ambiental --- Canvis climàtics --- Canvi climàtic global --- Cicles climàtics --- Fluctuacions climàtiques --- Oscil·lacions climàtiques --- Variacions climàtiques --- Climatologia --- Degradació ambiental --- Desertització --- Canvi mediambiental global --- Dendroclimatologia --- Escalfament global --- Paleoclimatologia --- Temperatura atmosfèrica --- Primitive societies --- Global environmental change --- Social sciences --- Climatology. --- Plant Evolution. --- Climate Sciences. --- Evolution. --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Atmospheric science --- Plant evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Phylogeny