Millennium Development Goals in Conservation : Managing Nature's Wealth for Society's Health

The Millennium Develop. Goals (MDG) are an ambitious agenda for reducing poverty & improving lives that world leaders agreed on at the Millennium Summit in 2000. This vol. is concerned with the link between conservation & poverty reduction. Contents: Is conservation relevant?; Climate change; How can markets for ecosystem services benefit the poor?; Reconciling global & local priorities for conservation & develop.; Linking conservation & production; Mainstreaming biodiversity into big bus.; Experience from the Equator Prize. Case Studies: Lessons from Tanzania on mainstreaming environ. into a poverty reduction strategy; Using analysis & advocacy to bring about policy change in Indonesia; & Success in the Baimaxuseshan Nature Reserve China.Roe, Dilys is the author of 'Millennium Development Goals in Conservation : Managing Nature's Wealth for Society's Health', published 2006 under ISBN 9781422306369 and ISBN 1422306364.