A Comparative Analysis of the Vision and Mission Statements of International Environmental Organisations

Campagna, Claudio; Fernandez, Teresita

doi:10.3197/096327107x228409

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“…4 and see Table 2). However, the enthusiasm for ecosystem services as a strategy for enhancing conservation support is far outpacing credible evidence of what is possible and how to best achieve the much desired win-win outcomes.…”

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“…Although these projects generally lack a formal foundation of ecosystem service science, they all are motivated by the general hypothesis that nature provides humans with benefits. In fact, an analysis of the vision and mission statements of major environmental organizations, including the major conservation nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), found that nature is typically portrayed as resources necessary for human well-being and sustainable development (4). Increasingly, the language used by conservation NGOs to discuss the value of nature is becoming more explicit in its reference to ecosystem services.…”

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An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development

Tallis

Kareiva

Marvier

et al. 2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The core idea of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is that the human condition is tightly linked to environmental condition. This assertion suggests that conservation and development projects should be able to achieve both ecological and social progress without detracting from their primary objectives. Whereas “win–win” projects that achieve both conservation and economic gains are a commendable goal, they are not easy to attain. An analysis of World Bank projects with objectives of alleviating poverty and protecting biodiversity revealed that only 16% made major progress on both objectives. Here, we provide a framework for anticipating win–win, lose–lose, and win–lose outcomes as a result of how people manage their ecosystem services. This framework emerges from detailed explorations of several case studies in which biodiversity conservation and economic development coincide and cases in which there is joint failure. We emphasize that scientific advances around ecosystem service production functions, tradeoffs among multiple ecosystem services, and the design of appropriate monitoring programs are necessary for the implementation of conservation and development projects that will successfully advance both environmental and social goals. The potentially bright future of jointly advancing ecosystem services, conservation, and human well-being will be jeopardized unless a global monitoring effort is launched that uses the many ongoing projects as a grand experiment.

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Section: The Absence Of Data Jeopardizes the Success Of Future Projectsmentioning

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An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development

Tallis

Kareiva

Marvier

et al. 2008

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…However, assigning economic value to natural resources leads to the reclassification of nature as a set of commodities or goods, and appears to be a symptom of a global discourse McAfee (1999) calls a "post-neoliberal environment-economic paradigm" spread by efforts in sustainable development or similar "green developmentalism" projects (McAfee 1999; see also Campagna and Fernandez 2007). McAfee argues that this discourse abstracts nature from its context in the process of putting it on the market as a commodity.…”

Section: The Marine Park In Practice: Education and Capacitybuilding mentioning

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Breaking the Bounds of Rationality: Values, Relationships, and Decision-making in Mexican Fishing Communities

Peterson

2014

Conservat Soc

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In fishing communities in Baja California Sur, Mexico, fisheries management is heavily influenced by models of individual economic rationality held by biologists and others involved in management, in which fishermen 'choose' to overfish because they are motivated by selfish individual rationality. Yet there is much that is neglected by these models, including the pressures of economic markets, family and community expectations, and cultural and personal value systems. Actual decisions about fishing and resource management rarely match the expectations of classical or neoliberal economic models of individual behaviour. I argue here that rational choice theory is a historically and culturally constructed discourse that becomes a taken-for-granted lens for viewing behaviour around the world. The effects of this discourse can be seen in the policies that are derived from them, as shown through this case study. [Downloaded free from http://www.conservationandsociety.org on Wednesday, May 13, 2015, IP: 94.73.62.168]

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“…The wide recognition of intrinsic value of by the public at large had been remarked before in the Netherlands and elsewhere (e.g. Van den Born et al, 2001), and the same mismatch between personal and organisational values was strikingly revealed by Butler and Acott (2007) in the UK and by Campagna and Fernández (2007), who have taken stock of the vision and mission statements of international environmental organisations. Both studies found that intrinsic value statements are virtually absent in the institutional statements, as if loving nature for its own sake is something to be ashamed of, even for conservation organisations.…”

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Visions of Nature in Eastern Europe: A Polish Example

Hunka¹,

Groot²,

Biela³

2009

Environmental Values

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Visions of nature are defined as public views on what nature is, what values are carried by nature and what is the appropriate relationship between humans and nature. They were studied in Lubelski region, Poland. With respect to the first, respondents expressed that human influence and naturalness do not exclude each other. One result of the values survey was that respondents acknowledged nature's intrinsic value. The study into the relationship between humans and nature showed that the respondents adhered strongly to a steward type of relationship, and that more ecocentric images were adhered to for a lesser, but substantial degree.

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A Comparative Analysis of the Vision and Mission Statements of International Environmental Organisations

Cited by 28 publications

References 31 publications

An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development

An ecosystem services framework to support both practical conservation and economic development

Breaking the Bounds of Rationality: Values, Relationships, and Decision-making in Mexican Fishing Communities

Visions of Nature in Eastern Europe: A Polish Example

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