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Science, Values and People: The Three Factors that Will Define the Next Generation of International Conservation Agreements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2011

Alexander Gillespie
Alexander Gillespie*
Affiliation:
University of Waikato, New Zealand. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with three emerging issues that define the way in which international conservation law moves forward in the coming decades. The three issues are those related to the use of science to frame regimes; the use of philosophy to examine the values of what is trying to be achieved; and the use of politics to ensure that local communities are linked to conservation efforts. Consideration of each of these three areas is relatively recent, none of them having being at the forefront of conservation considerations of international importance in the past. In the future, this is likely to change.

Keywords

ConservationScienceValuesCommunities
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Invited Article
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , April 2012 , pp. 169 - 182
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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