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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. Global strategies
  3. Promoting community involvement in environmental protection

Promoting community involvement in environmental protection

  • Developing public participation in biodiversity conservation

Broader

Raising biodiversity awareness
Excellent
Integrating indigenous knowledge on natural resources
Excellent
Instigating community resources management
Excellent
Ensuring a healthy environment
Excellent
Preserving cultural landscapes
Presentable
Developing management strategies for biodiversity conservation
Presentable
Building capacity for conserving biological diversity
Presentable
Campaigning about biodiversity issues
Unpresentable
Motivating community involvement
Yet to rate
Conserving biodiversity communally
Yet to rate

Narrower

Involving local communities in the conservation of plant genetic resources
Presentable
Adopting community right-to-know for environmental risk reduction
Presentable
Undertaking community monitoring of resources
Unpresentable
Strengthening urban environment community groups
Yet to rate
Providing assistance to community environmental action
Yet to rate
Increasing participation of children in integrated community management of resources
Yet to rate
Developing community gardens
Yet to rate

Constrained by

Forcing participation in community activity
Yet to rate

Facilitates

Encouraging on-site conservation of biodiversity
Excellent
Adapting traditional practices for biodiversity conservation
Excellent
Promoting biodiversity management outside protected areas
Yet to rate
Managing urbanization to minimize biodiversity loss
Yet to rate
Involving consumers in biodiversity conservation
Yet to rate
Establishing participatory approaches to wetland biodiversity management
Yet to rate

Facilitated by

Strengthening farmer rights
Excellent
Identifying benefits of biodiversity conservation
Excellent
Strengthening participation of scientists in sustainable development
Presentable
Legalizing community rights to resource use
Presentable
Generating community support for environmental health programmes
Presentable
Benefit-sharing of community level biodiversity conservation
Presentable
Maintaining cultural and biological diversity
Yet to rate
Increasing local autonomy of government biodiversity conservation programmes
Yet to rate
Enabling practical community planning
Yet to rate
Applying economic tools at the local level of biodiversity conservation
Yet to rate

Related

Promoting participation of women in preservation of the environment
Yet to rate

Problem

Lack of community involvement in environmental protection
Unpresentable

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #1: No PovertySustainable Development Goal #11: Sustainable Cities and CommunitiesSustainable Development Goal #15: Life on Land

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(E) Emanations of other strategies
Subject
Content quality
Yet to rate
 Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J9047
DOCID
12090470
D7NID
193683
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/promoting-community-involvement-environmental-protection
Last update
Jan 30, 2023