Towards Convivial Conservation: Governing Human-Wildlife Interactions in the Anthropocene

CON-VIVA的前提是，保护是向可持续发展转变的关键，但其做法需要根本改变。保护可以有效地保护某些地方的生物多样性，但总体上未能阻止全球生物多样性的丧失。在紧缩时期，栖息地持续分散和资金减少使这一问题更加严重。许多环保主义者现在承认这一点，导致了关于如何重新配置人类与野生动物关系、保护区和经济发展在保护中的作用的激烈的“人类世”讨论。CON-VIVA的主要目标是从概念上完善和经验上测试从这些辩论中出现的一个建议的前景：欢乐的保护。这一新模式响应了T2 S主题，超越了保护区和对市场的信心，建立了景观、治理和融资途径，将保护和减贫结合起来，同时促进繁荣。CON-VIVA通过比较芬兰、美国和DAC国家巴西和坦桑尼亚涉及顶级捕食者的人类与野生动物冲突的尖端保护案例，调查了欢乐保护的前景。我们的假设是，如果“生活在”顶端捕食者可以有效地结合新形式的经济发展，过渡到欢乐的保护可以大大提高。通过围绕地方和全球层面的综合学术从业者网络组织该项目，我们将更好地了解这种转变的条件，同时概念化和推广新的保护模式。这使得CON-VIVA能够为可持续发展目标15做出贡献，并激发和加强更广泛的可持续发展转型。

CON-VIVA is grounded in the premise that conservation is critical to transformations to sustainability but that its practices need to change radically. Conservation can be effective in protecting biodiversity in places, but in toto has failed to halt global biodiversity loss. Continued habitat fragmentation and reduced funding during times of austerity compound this problem. Many conservationists now acknowledge this, leading to vigorous 'Anthropocene' discussions on how to reconfigure human-wildlife relations, protected areas and the role of economic development in conservation. CON-VIVA's key objective is to conceptually refine and empirically test the prospects for one proposal emerging from these debates: convivial conservation. This new model responds to the T2S themes by moving beyond protected areas and faith in markets to build landscape, governance and funding pathways that integrate conservation and poverty reduction, while enhancing prosperity. CON-VIVA investigates the prospects for convivial conservation by comparing cutting-edge conservation cases that address human-wildlife conflict involving apex predators in Finland, USA and DAC-countries Brazil and Tanzania. Our hypothesis is that if 'living with' apex predators can be effectively combined with new forms of economic development, a transition to convivial conservation can be boosted significantly. By organising the project around integrated academic-practitioner networks on local and global levels, we will better understand the conditions for this transition, while conceptualising and popularising a new model for conservation. This allows CON-VIVA to contribute to SDG15 and to inspire and enhance broader transformations to sustainability.CAN YOU READ THIS?