The Local, National & International in Biodiversity Conservation: A Transnational Comparison

这是一个项目，比较在两个完全不同的社会政治环境中进行的生物多样性保护的两种努力。 其中一个案例涉及肯尼亚野生动物服务局（KWS），这是一家负责管理肯尼亚所有保护区和保护区外所有野生动物的国有公司。 另一个组织是美国西南部的Malpai Borderlands Group（MPG），这是一个致力于保护西南部未开发的荒地和牧场并保护这些地区传统生活方式的非营利组织。 这两个机构都在高度紧张的环境中工作，在强大和牢固的利益集团之间进行谈判。 这两个组织还必须传递、翻译和重新制定在全球、国家和地方各级表达的科学和政策关切。本项目将研究在两个完全不同的国家背景下如何实现这一点以及取得了多大程度的成功。 í

This is a project to compare two efforts at biodiversity conservation underway in two quite different sociopolitical settings. One of the cases involves the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), a state corporation responsible for administering all of Kenya's protected areas and all its wildlife outside protected areas. The other organization is the Malpai Borderlands Group (MPG) in the Southwestern United States, an nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving the undeveloped wildlands and rangelands of the Southwest and to preserving the traditional ways of life of such regions. Both agencies work in highly charged environments, negotiating among powerful and strongly-held interests. Both organizations must also transmit, translate and reformulate scientific and policy concerns expressed at the global, national, and local levels. This project will examine how this is accomplished and with what level of success in two quite different national contexts. í