Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I Setting the scene -- 1 Protecting beyond the protected -- Biodiversity and the fraying web of life -- On biodiversity and resilience -- On the loss of biodiversity -- Setting the aims of the text -- Biodiversity and ecosystem advocacy: some definitions and interpretations -- Incorporating people for protecting biodiversity -- Postscript: a changing world order -- REFERENCES -- Part II Policy and management -- 2 Biodiversity: threats and challenges -- Introduction -- REFERENCES -- 3 Biodiversity and biodepletion: the need for a paradigm shift -- Introduction and background -- Public support for biodiversity -- The individual's stance -- Leadership -- Institutional failures -- Perverse subsidies -- Efficient funding and biodiversity hotspots -- Protected areas: no longer the front-line strategy? -- Scientific uncertainty and public policy -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 4 People, livelihoods and collective action in biodiversity management -- Saving nature in protected areas -- Wilderness ideas -- Modern dispossessions -- Knowledges of nature -- Social capital and collective action -- Relations of trust -- Reciprocity and exchanges -- Common rules, norms and sanctions -- Connectedness, networks and groups -- Social and human capital as prerequisites for improving biodiversity -- Participation and inclusive social learning -- Lessons from inclusive social capital programmes with positive biodiversity outcomes -- Conclusions for socially inclusive biodiversity protection -- REFERENCES -- 5 Deliberative democracy and participatory biodiversity -- On deliberative democracy -- Empowerment and shared governance -- On widening the basis of governance -- Dampening the enthusiasm -- The experience of participatory policy awareness.

On inclusionary participation and biodiversity management -- Acknowledgement -- REFERENCES -- Part III Case studies -- 6 The politics of biodiversity in Europe -- The changing policy environment for biodiversity in the European Union -- Fraying biodiversity in Europe -- Europe's track record -- The emergence and persistence of the EU Habitats Directive -- Monitoring performance -- Aspirations -- The German experience -- The Finnish experience -- The Hickling experience -- REFERENCES -- 7 Community-based involvement in biodiversity protection in the United States -- Introduction -- Biodiversity status and protection in the United States -- Trends in community-based efforts -- The Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds -- The Quincy Library Group -- Future directions for community-based biodiversity protection in the US -- Lessons for local communities -- Lessons for environmental groups -- Lessons for agencies -- Final observations -- Note -- REFERENCES -- 8 An ecoregional approach to biodiversity conservation in the Cape Floral Kingdom, South Africa -- Introduction -- Conservation of biodiversity in South Africa -- Origins of the CAPE project -- Biodiversity analysis -- Analysis of key issues -- Participative strategy development -- Addressing obstacles to inclusiveness -- Strategy development -- Biodiversity and socio-economic development -- Implementation programming -- Co-ordination of implementation -- Lessons from CAPE -- Scarcity of skills -- Raising awareness and creating commitment -- Managing public involvement -- Engaging the drivers of biodiversity loss -- Scientific approaches -- Financing implementation -- Absorptive capacity -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 9 Wildlife management in Namibia: the conservancy approach -- An African introductory scene -- The modern policy framework -- Non-governmental organisations -- Wildlife-based tourism.

Trophy hunting activities -- Endangered species convention -- Namibian elephants and CITES -- Namibia's new conservancy policy -- The Grootberg Conservancy -- Wildlife management in Namibia: the conservancy approach -- Some lessons learned -- Parting reflections -- REFERENCES -- 10 Brazil: selling biodiversity with local livelihoods -- The state of biodiversity in Brazil -- Brazilian protected areas -- Effectiveness of protected areas management in Brazil -- The politics of biodiversity in Brazil -- Private initiatives and biodiversity management -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 11 The mixed experience of private sector involvement in biodiversity management in Costa Rica -- Biodiversity under threat in Costa Rica -- Costa Rica's policy for the protection of forests -- The role of private enterprise and NGOs -- The Reserva Biológica Bosque Nuboso Monteverde as an example of participatory regional development -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 12 The uncertain role of biodiversity management in emerging democracies -- Editorial introduction -- Citizen involvement in biosphere reserve management in Estonia -- Martin Welp -- Introduction -- Threats to biodiversity in Estonia -- Biodiversity policies in Estonia -- Designation of the West-Estonian Archipelago Biosphere Reserve -- Biosphere reserve management -- An example of community-based management -- Conclusions -- Biodiversity in a post-war zone -- Daniela Hamidovic -- Taxonomic deficits and delayed biodiversity action plans -- Bat ecology and conservation in karstic environments -- Local involvement in emerging democracy: a case study of biodiversity management in Indonesia -- Damayati Buchori and David Ardhian -- Indonesian biodiversity: damage behind the richness -- Damage to forest ecosystems -- Coastal resources also in crisis -- Damage to agro-ecosystems.

Disputes over national parks: the illegal logging of protected areas -- The politics of biodiversity in Indonesia -- Involvement of the stakeholders -- Local involvement in biodiversity management: building the new perspective in an emerging democracy -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- Part IV Perspective -- 13 Enhancing biodiversity and humanity -- On biodiversity and humanity -- Ecological advocacy and biodiversity strategy -- Sustainability science and biodiversity advocacy -- On social resilience and vulnerability -- Redesigning agro-ecosystems for biodiversity resilience -- Public-private partnerships in biodiversity and the ecosystem approach -- REFERENCES -- Epilogue -- Index.