Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas | International Institute for Environment and Development

Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas | International Institute for Environment and Development

 

It's
time for a new look at the social impacts of the world's protected
areas, says IIED senior researcher Phil Franks in his latest blog -->
http://www.iied.org/time-for-new-look-social-impacts-protected-areas - private

 

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"In recent years, political commitment to social equity in protected
area conservation has grown, but it is not easy to tell what's good from
bad."

 

 A
giraffe takes stock at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where Social
Assessment of Protective Area fieldwork starts next week (Photo:
www.kicheche.com via Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)