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Shifting the Power: Decentralization and Biodiversity Conservation



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Authors:
Barbara Wyckoff-Baird, Andrea Kaus, Catherine Christen, Margaret Keck
Publication Number: 100
Publication Date: 2001
This publication addresses the questions: How does decentralization of decision-making and management authority affect biodiversity conservation? Does decentralization put the power to freely manage natural resources in the hands of people living in most direct contact with these resources? Once empowered, do local stewards of natural resources take action that is supportive of conservation or is the tendency to exploit biodiversity excessively?