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Evolving Approaches to Conservation: Integral Ecology and Canada's Great Bear Rainforest
World Futures
Short Title: Evolving Approaches to Conservation
Format: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2005/01/01/
Pages: 63 - 78
Sources ID: 79886
Visibility: Public (group default)
Abstract: (Show)
This case study applies Integral Ecology to analyze the broad range of strategies environmentalists have undertaken to create protected areas and change forest practices in the Great Bear Rainforest, British Columbia, Canada. Rainforest conservation efforts in the region promoted holistic, trans-disciplinary solutions and fostered agreement among diverse stakeholders, modeling an Integral Ecology approach. Environmentalists worked locally and globally, engaging with economic, cultural, political, and scientific systems to create change. The campaign involved transformations at personal and cultural levels that have enabled negotiated solutions involving over twenty million acres of rainforest on British Columbia's coast.