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Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human well-being
Thomas O. McShane,Paul Hirsch,Tran Trung,Alexander N. Songorwa,Ann P. Kinzig,Bruno Monteferri,David R. Mutekanga,Hoang Van Thang,Juan Luis Dammert,Manuel Pulgar-Vidal,Meredith Welch-Devine,J. Peter Brosius,Peter Coppolillo,Sheila O’Connor +13 more
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TL;DR: The background and limitations of win–win approaches to conservation and human well-being are explored, the prospect of approaching conservation challenges in terms of trade-offs and hard choices are discussed, and a set of guiding principles are presented that can serve to orient strategic analysis and communication regardingTrade-offs.
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About: This article is published in Biological Conservation. The article was published on 01 Mar 2011. The article focuses on the topics: Conservation psychology.
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