| Titre : |
Wildland biodiversity management in the tropics |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Daniel H. Janzen, Auteur |
| Année de publication : |
1996 |
| Importance : |
p 411-431 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
SCIENCES DE LA VIE
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| Mots-clés : |
TERRE SAUVAGE TROPIQUES GESTION DE LA BIODIVERSITE |
| Résumé : |
The goal of studying studying the biodiversity of wildlands was extirpating, eating, avoiding, inhaling, domesticating and controlling so the author seeks simplification and homogenzation of the natural world to facilitate these activities. The outcome results in three basic kinds of land use : urban, managed agroscape and dwindling wildlands. The urban habitat is viewed as productive even if restive and the agroscape is productive with largely pacific and homogenized biodiversity. The wildlands are viewed as removable, conservable, which means they have been set aside by someone else for strip-mining of their natural products or for social fossilization outside of the national economy. They are like cash in a shoebox under the bed, neither earning interest nor circulating but of value to someone. This perception of tropical wildlands is unfortunate and fortunately it is waning in popularity. They are encouraging nuclei of voices dotted across the tropical landscape arguing that conservable and conserved tropical wildlands are a category of highly productive land-use. Such a shift in social and economic attitudes demands that a conserved wildland be blessed with the level of planning, knowledge, investment, oversight, budget, tehcnology and political attention that has long been characteristic of the more productive sectors of the agroscape and also of a nation’s institutions-highway systems, hospitals and communication and education.
Up to the present, nondamaging consumption from wildlands-humanity’s hallmark during the first 99% of human evolution has lost out in competition with the agroscape. Today’s wildlands appear to be less productive than are many kinds of agroscapes. Humanity has cleard the way for its domesticates-including humans that function as urban or rural draft animals. As the desires of humanity become more diverse and perceptive, the value of a unit of wild biodiversity increases. As the knowledge base of humanity increases in bulk and interconnectivity, the intrinsic potential for multiple use of a unit of biodiversity increases. All of these increases are proportional to the investment in them.
The outcome is that a smart, modern, tropical government farm and ranches the information in an explicitly designated portion of its wildland biodiversity, just as a smart government resists pulping its national library during a newsprint shortage or using Internet cables to construct fences. It uses the income generated in many currencies to support the costs of managing the conserved wildland, further its development and meet its costs of opportunity. This builds employment and capacity. This is sustainable development-living off the interest rather than consuming the capital.
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| Numéro du document : |
A/BIO |
| Niveau Bibliographique : |
2 |
| Bull1 (Theme principale) : |
BIOLOGIE |
| Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : |
BIOLOGIE GENERALE |
Wildland biodiversity management in the tropics [texte imprimé] / Daniel H. Janzen, Auteur . - 1996 . - p 411-431. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
SCIENCES DE LA VIE
|
| Mots-clés : |
TERRE SAUVAGE TROPIQUES GESTION DE LA BIODIVERSITE |
| Résumé : |
The goal of studying studying the biodiversity of wildlands was extirpating, eating, avoiding, inhaling, domesticating and controlling so the author seeks simplification and homogenzation of the natural world to facilitate these activities. The outcome results in three basic kinds of land use : urban, managed agroscape and dwindling wildlands. The urban habitat is viewed as productive even if restive and the agroscape is productive with largely pacific and homogenized biodiversity. The wildlands are viewed as removable, conservable, which means they have been set aside by someone else for strip-mining of their natural products or for social fossilization outside of the national economy. They are like cash in a shoebox under the bed, neither earning interest nor circulating but of value to someone. This perception of tropical wildlands is unfortunate and fortunately it is waning in popularity. They are encouraging nuclei of voices dotted across the tropical landscape arguing that conservable and conserved tropical wildlands are a category of highly productive land-use. Such a shift in social and economic attitudes demands that a conserved wildland be blessed with the level of planning, knowledge, investment, oversight, budget, tehcnology and political attention that has long been characteristic of the more productive sectors of the agroscape and also of a nation’s institutions-highway systems, hospitals and communication and education.
Up to the present, nondamaging consumption from wildlands-humanity’s hallmark during the first 99% of human evolution has lost out in competition with the agroscape. Today’s wildlands appear to be less productive than are many kinds of agroscapes. Humanity has cleard the way for its domesticates-including humans that function as urban or rural draft animals. As the desires of humanity become more diverse and perceptive, the value of a unit of wild biodiversity increases. As the knowledge base of humanity increases in bulk and interconnectivity, the intrinsic potential for multiple use of a unit of biodiversity increases. All of these increases are proportional to the investment in them.
The outcome is that a smart, modern, tropical government farm and ranches the information in an explicitly designated portion of its wildland biodiversity, just as a smart government resists pulping its national library during a newsprint shortage or using Internet cables to construct fences. It uses the income generated in many currencies to support the costs of managing the conserved wildland, further its development and meet its costs of opportunity. This builds employment and capacity. This is sustainable development-living off the interest rather than consuming the capital.
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| Numéro du document : |
A/BIO |
| Niveau Bibliographique : |
2 |
| Bull1 (Theme principale) : |
BIOLOGIE |
| Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : |
BIOLOGIE GENERALE |
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