Linking poverty and the environment: participatory community-based approaches, games of imperfect information and the Convention on Biological Diversity

Abstract

ResumoEste artigo discute a ligação que se estabelece entre as agendas de combate à pobreza e de proteção do meio ambiente a partir de iniciativas que adotam abordagens comunitárias participativas. Essas buscam potencializar ações voltadas para populações locais que se encontram em situação de vulnerabilidade. Os desafios que essas enfrentam são apresentados aqui na forma de modelos, que explicam seu funcionamento interno. E finalmente, descreve-se um instrumento participativo, nascido da Convenção sobre Diversidade Biológica, baseado no direito consuetudinário. AbstractThis paper discusses the linkages between the agendas of poverty alleviation and of environmental protection through initiatives adopting participatory community-based approaches. These actions intend to strengthen and increase the effectiveness of policies focusing local and traditional populations that are in a situation of vulnerability. The challenges they face are presented here in the form of games with the purpose to show models explaining them. And finally, a participatory instrument, raised in the Convention on Biological Diversity and based on customary law, is brought to the reader. • This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited.• Este é um artigo publicado em acesso aberto e distribuído sob os termos da Licença de Atribuição Creative Commons, que permite uso irrestrito, distribuição e reprodução em qualquer meio, desde que o autor e a fonte originais sejam creditados.

Discussing political crisis as a social phenomenon: a short critical look

“…They relate to loss of assets occurring in contexts of political fluidity. Accordingly, as an asset, legitimacy can be obtained by the accumulation of a high level of diffuse support (EASTON, 1979;CASTRO, 2017). Namely, goodwill on behalf of members of a political system.…”

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“…They relate to loss of assets occurring in contexts of political fluidity. Accordingly, as an asset, legitimacy can be obtained by the accumulation of a high level of diffuse support (EASTON, 1979;CASTRO, 2017). Namely, goodwill on behalf of members of a political system.…”