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Biodiversity Governance: A Tower of Babel of Scales and Cultures

Soberón, Jorge
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Peterson, A. Townsend
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The recently created Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), originally focused on multilateral and global issues, is shifting its focus to address local issues and to include in its assessments local stakeholders and indigenous and traditional systems of knowledge. Acknowledging that full biodiversity governance is unavoidably rooted in participation of local actors and their problems and knowledge, we suggest that to deal successfully with the complexity and diversity of local issues, including indigenous knowledge systems, IPBES must recognize a key role of local institutions.
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2015-03-12
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Public Library of Science
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Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum Scholarly Works
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Scholarly Works
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Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Language, Data processing, Science policy, Conservation science, Ecological economics, United Nations
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Soberón J, Peterson AT (2015) Biodiversity Governance: A Tower of Babel of Scales and Cultures. PLoS Biol 13(3): e1002108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002108
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https://hdl.handle.net/1808/18073
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10.1371/journal.pbio.1002108
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