Just participation in conservation decision‐making is a moral imperative and critical to
achieving social and ecological goals. However, understanding of what constitutes a just …

▪ Abstract The world's system of protected areas has grown exponentially over the past 25
years, particularly in developing countries where biodiversity is greatest. Concurrently, the …

In light of the Aichi target to manage protected areas equitably by 2020, we ask how the
conservation sector should be incorporating concerns for social justice. We focus in …

In this commentary we critically discuss the suitability of payments for ecosystem services
and the most important challenges they face. While such instruments can play a role in …

This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate
change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize …

By January 2015 the world's richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per
cent of the world's population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in …

The poor conservation outcomes that followed decades of intrusive resource management
strategies and planned development have forced policy makers and scholars to reconsider …

The new fifth edition of Ecotourism focuses on an array of economic, social and ecological
inconsistencies that continue to plague ecotourism in theory and practice, and examines the …

Ethnobotany, the study of the classification, use and management of plants by people, draws
on a range of disciplines, including natural and social sciences, to show how conservation of …

Doubt persists about ecotourism's ability to make tangible contributions to conservation and
deliver benefits for host communities. This work in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula tests the …