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Understanding conservationists’ perspectives on the new‐conservation debate
Authors:George Holmes  Chris Sandbrook  Janet A. Fisher
Affiliation:1. School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, U.K.;2. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, U.K.;3. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.;4. School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K.
Abstract:A vibrant debate about the future direction of biodiversity conservation centers on the merits of the so‐called new conservation. Proponents of the new conservation advocate a series of positions on key conservation ideas, such as the importance of human‐dominated landscapes and conservation's engagement with capitalism. These have been fiercely contested in a debate dominated by a few high‐profile individuals, and so far there has been no empirical exploration of existing perspectives on these issues among a wider community of conservationists. We used Q methodology to examine empirically perspectives on the new conservation held by attendees at the 2015 International Congress for Conservation Biology (ICCB). Although we identified a consensus on several key issues, 3 distinct positions emerged: in favor of conservation to benefit people but opposed to links with capitalism and corporations, in favor of biocentric approaches but with less emphasis on wilderness protection than prominent opponents of new conservation, and in favor of the published new conservation perspective but with less emphasis on increasing human well‐being as a goal of conservation. Our results revealed differences between the debate on the new conservation in the literature and views held within a wider, but still limited, conservation community and demonstrated the existence of at least one viewpoint (in favor of conservation to benefit people but opposed to links with capitalism and corporations) that is almost absent from the published debate. We hope the fuller understanding we present of the variety of views that exist but have not yet been heard, will improve the quality and tone of debates on the subject.
Keywords:human well‐being  markets  nature  neoliberal conservation  Q methodology  values  wilderness  bienestar humano  conservació  n neoliberal  mercados  metodologí  a Q  naturaleza  valores  vida silvestre
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