Bridging the Gap Between Conservation and Development
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The of conservation and development together had to functioning of Earth?s life support system is a fundamental principle underlying landscape ecology address the lacuna between conservation and Pieterse contends that dissatisfied from mainstream prerequisite for future human development. Thus was that the places (or habitats) that so interest development to achieve their overarching objectives. development, that implied promotion of economic implying that integrated framework for sustainable conservationists are elements in a larger landscape growth via technology transfers, increase in development goals would ensure maximization of mosaic (Dunteman et al., 1983). Landscape level Conservation debate agricultural productivity and enhanced infrastructure synergies and managements of tradeoffs in conservation planning entailed consideration of development in the 1970's, the idea of development implementing sustainable development goals broad scale interconnected ecological systems that The emergence of such discourse was perhaps the was being redefined and geared in terms of (Mebratu et al., 1998). bring into its ambit dealing with the whole spectrum beginning, on one hand, of the new conservation 'satisfaction of needs', 'endogenous and self-reliant' of environmental problems. This is a critical debate and on the other of an alternative/reflexive and 'in harmony with the environment (Pieterse et al., Attempting a synergy between conservation and approach since in a human-dominated world, development. The new conservation debate was 1998). The World Commission on Environment and development? weighing the landscape requirements of wildlife vis- gaining prominence since the mid nineties when Development (WCED 1983) and its findings in a a-vis the needs of humans is a complicated matter. Soules original delineation of conservation biology report titled 'Our Common Future', also known as the Since then it is widely accepted that biodiversity loss Herein landscape level ecology played an important was being reframed, updated and made more (Brundtl and Report 1987) can be sited as its earliest and poverty are linked problems and that conservation role in ecosystem management. The traditional accommodative under the banner of conservation example. It was a first of its kind to lay out the and poverty reduction should be tackled together. The conservation methods targeting individual species science with the recognition that ecological dynamics environmental challenges facing the world, most common tool that emerged to combine was being reviewed to include the maintenance of not cannot be separated from human dynamics (Folke et presenting how environmental destruction would conservation and development was the adoption of the only the species but also its habitats through al., 2011). A forward-looking conservation was limit economic growth and poverty, in turn, would framework of integrated conservation and consideration of both human induced and natural envisioned to protect natural habitats where people contribute to environmental destruction. The report