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Ecosystem structure, economic cycles and market-oriented conservation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2001

Carolyn Crook  and
Roger Alex Clapp
Carolyn Crook
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6
Roger Alex Clapp
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A 1S6
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Whether market-oriented conservation, by which we mean the promotion of markets for the products of intact ecosystems, protects biodiversity, and under what conditions, has been a subject of much research and debate. Our evaluation of three strategies of the market-oriented use of natural resources led us to conclude that, at least for these three strategies, market-oriented mechanisms of conservation are often socially, economically, or ecologically unsustainable, and that proposals for market-oriented conservation should be approached with caution (Crook & Clapp 1998). Shackleton's (2001) critique and extension of the conditions for market-oriented conservation offers many useful insights, although we question some of his interpretations. Herein we examine some of those extensions, and revisit the criteria for successful market-oriented conservation.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 28 , Issue 3 , September 2001 , pp. 194 - 198
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© 2001 Foundation for Environmental Conservation

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