http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901112001037
Recognition of the
interrelationships between the global loss of nature and collapse of
rural communities is essential. Compartmentalising or ignoring the
diversity of stakeholder perspectives, policy objectives, and the
complexity of nature has not worked. We must improve all natural and
human capital to address the growing problems. Progressing environmental
and development policies in isolation diminishes policy effectiveness,
polarises communities by engendering dislocation, fear and conflict, and
leads to ineffectual or deleterious natural and rural systems
management. Conservation and rural policy can be recast to a new
rural–urban dynamic: progressing from food and fibre production with
little regard for externalities to one of food, fibre and sustainable
natural and rural systems. We propose a conceptual framework based on
the interdependence of humans and nature that recognises multiple forms
of capital, and their role in environmental management and community
development. Specifically, the ‘forms of capital’ framework directs
attention to the transformational properties of different forms of
capital and to the deterministic socio-economic and political drivers of
change. Integrating system governance and stewardship, in conjunction
with coordinated, self-adapting processes of research, planning,
monitoring and system evaluation, offers a means of improving
sustainable management of the complex inter-relationships between people
and nature.
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