Bottom-up conservation

Abstract

Conservation initiatives that have worked well in temperate and developed regions have often been applied in the tropics but with only limited success. Part of this failure is due to top-down conservation planning that has been conducted without taking local socio-economic considerations into adequate account. Here, we argue that conservation approaches would benefit from a deeper understanding of human-nature interactions. © 2011 The Author(s). Journal compilation © 2011 by The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.