Biocultural Diversity Conservation

About this book

The field of biocultural diversity is emerging as a dynamic integrative approach to understanding the links between nature and culture and the interrelationships between humans and the environment at scales from the global to the local. Its multifaceted contributions have ranged from theoretical elaborations to mappings of the overlapping distributions of biological and cultural diversity to the development of indicators as tools to measure assess and monitor the state and trends of biocultural diversity to on-the-ground implementation in field projects. This book is a unique compendium and analysis of projects from all around the world that take an integrated biocultural approach to sustaining cultures and biodiversity. The 45 projects reviewed exemplify a new focus in conservation: this is based on the emerging realization that protecting and restoring biodiversity and maintaining and revitalizing cultural diversity and cultural vitality are intimately indeed inextricably interrelated. Published with Terralingua and IUCN