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Protecting biological diversity : roles and responsibilities

Title: Protecting biological diversity : roles and responsibilities / edited by Catherine Potvin, Margaret Kraenzel, and Gilles Seutin.
Publication: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001.

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xv, 151 pages; 24 cm

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Papers originally presented at a symposium held during the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Montréal, Quebec, 13-23 Oct. 1966.

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Introduction / Catherine Potvin and Gilles Seutin -- 1. The Development and Management of Protected Tropical Areas: The Need for a Code of Ethics to Guide Collaborative Research in Africa. A Case Study from the Republique democratique du Congo / Leonard Mubalama -- 2. Considerations on a Code of Ethics for Conservation Biologists / Marie-Helene Parizeau -- 3. The Scientific Community and the Indigenous Embera Community of Panama / Rogelio Cansari -- 4. Cultural Lenses and Conservation Biology: Collaboration in Tropical Countries / Priscilla Weeks, Jane Packard and Mirella Martinez-Velarde -- 5. Conservation in Action: Assessing the Behaviour of National and International Researchers Working in Madagascar / Lala H. Rakotovao, R. Rakotoariseheno and Chantale Andrianarivo -- 6. Conservation Biology and Environmental Values: Can There Be a Universal Earth Ethic? / Bryan G. Norton --
7. The Notion of Effectiveness: Lessons from the Field of International Development / Georgina Wigley and Heather Baser -- 8. Conservation That Makes Dollars and Sense: The RARE Center for Tropical Conservation Work in the Caribbean / Paul Butler and Victor Alleyne Regis -- 9. Conclusion: Blending Universal and Local Ethics: Accountability towards Nature, Perfect Strangers, and Society / Anil K. Gupta, Vineet Rai and Kirit K. Patel / [et al.].

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