The Full Value of Parks by Unknown

The Full Value of Parks by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780742581067
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2013-07-11T00:00:00+00:00


MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN THE EMERGING CULTURAL PROTECTED LANDSCAPE

Spurred by discussions of these challenges at the Latin American Parks Congress held in Santa Marta (Colombia) in 1992, conservation policy makers in the Colombian government launched a new protected areas policy (Minister of the Environment 1999). The national park system was integrated into a larger planning and administrative framework, the Colombian Protected Areas System, with a wider array of management categories, greater territorial scope, and higher complexity. The new system can be defined as a legal, institutional, and organizational tool, directed toward canalizing the multiple initiatives that converge in land stewardship. The immediate effect is that previously declared national parks must be recognized by local people, and large ethnic territories, or parts of them, may become part of the new protected areas system with the concurrence of local residents.

The rationale for supporting on political grounds the allocation of large territories for indigenous communities inhabited by relatively few people included many ecological and conservation considerations. However, most of the debates have centered on biopolitical aspects, rather than on concrete, on-the-ground land management issues, consideration of which has been bypassed or delayed. Currently, the opportunity to introduce conservation components for these fragile ecosystems depends not only on advanced political processes but also on the likelihood of constructing long-term conservation partnerships between the legal owners of the land, their governments, and the conservation institutions.



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