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In Search of Long-Term Conservation: Objectives, Effectiveness, and Participation Schemes in Protected Areas

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Protected areas (PAs) are instruments designed to ensure in situ long-term conservation. However, the selection of their objectives, design, and implementation strategies has changed over time according to different environmental value systems. In this sense, the Mexican environmental value system has changed from preservation to conservation, contributing to the development of different categories such as National Parks, Biosphere Reserves, Voluntary Conservation Areas, and Biocultural Landscapes. This chapter aims to historically describe these environmental value systems and their effect in the pursuit of long-term conservation in protected areas. To achieve this, we relate the environmental value system with each stage of Mexican conservation and we describe the objective of PAs and we address the effectiveness, participation, and access to power mechanisms in decision-making of each stage.

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Vázquez-Quesada, B., Torres-Orozco Jiménez, D. (2020). In Search of Long-Term Conservation: Objectives, Effectiveness, and Participation Schemes in Protected Areas. In: Ortega-Rubio, A. (eds) Socio-ecological Studies in Natural Protected Areas. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47264-1_4

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