Taking Stock of Nature: Participatory Biodiversity Assessment for Policy, Planning and Practice

ISBN: 9780511686535 出版年：2010 页码：304 Anna Lawrence Cambridge University Press

1. What does participatory biodiversity assessment mean for planners and policy makers? Anna Lawrence 2. Monitoring and assessment of biodiversity under the Convention on Biological Diversity and other international agreements Ruth Mackenzie 3. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: a multiscale assessment for global stakeholders Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne and Doris Capistrano 4. Conservation of biological diversity in El Salvador shade coffee: the importance of taxonomic capacity for participatory assessments Alex Monro and David Jones 5. Taking stock of nature in species-rich but economically poor areas: an emerging discipline of locally-based monitoring Finn Danielsen, Neil Burgess, Mikkel Funder, Tom Blomley, Justin Brashares, Amina Akida, Arne Jensen, Marlynn Mendoza, Greg Stuart-Hill, Michael K. Poulsen, Hadija Ramadhani, Moses K. Sam and Elmer Topp-Jorgensen 6. Researching local perspectives on biodiversity in tropical landscapes: lessons from ten case studies Manuel Boissiere, Marieke Sassen, Douglas Sheil, Miriam van Heist, Wil de Jong, Robert Cunliffe, Meilinda Wan, Michael Padmanaba, Nining Liswanti, Imam Basuki, Kristen Evans, Peter Cronkleton, Tim Lynam, Piia Koponen and Christiana Bairaktari 7. Participatory resources monitoring in SW China: lessons after five years Jeannette van Rijsoort, Zhang Jinfeng, Marlon Ten Hoonte and Wang Lei 8. Forest inventory in Nepal - technical power or social empowerment? Jane Hull, Hemant Ojha and Krishna Paudel 9. Perceptions of landscape change in British Columbia's Northwest: implications for biodiversity and participatory management John Lewis 10. How thousands planned for a billion: lessons from India on decentralized, participatory planning Seema Bhatt and Tejaswini Apte 11. Inside monitoring: a comparison of bird monitoring groups in Slovenia and the United Kingdom Sandra Bell, Mariella Marzano and Dan Podjed 12. The personal and political of volunteers' data: towards a national database in the UK Anna Lawrence 13. Improving forest management through participatory monitoring: a comparative case study of four community-based forestry organizations in the Western United States Heidi L. Ballard, Victoria Sturtevant and Maria E. Fernandez-Gimenez 14. Conclusions: towards effectiveness in participatory biodiversity assessment Anna Lawrence.