Five paradigms of collective action underlying the human dimension of conservation

摘要: This chapter focuses on the question of collective action addressing human dimension conservation: ethical, cultural, and social. The first part explains five fundamental paradigms that underpin both lay academic discourses for conservation. are government paradigm, co-ordination revolution governance minority paradigm. second provides an illustration such clarification. It introduces current controversies about community based conservation in Africa-more particularly, East Africa's Maasailand-and show how five-paradigms model proposed can shed light them. ends with a discussion some possible misunderstandings hindering effort to work across biology social sciences, offers suggestions further learning research.