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| Madhusudan, M.D.; Shankar Raman, T.R. | |
| Conservation as if Biological Diversity Matters: Preservation versus Sustainable Use in India | |
| 2003 Conservation and Society (1): 49-59 | |
Debates over the rationale for conservation are now fast being consigned to history. More people and governments than ever before recognise the need to conserve biological diversity, with over 180 countries now having become signatories to the International Convention on Biological Diversity. With the dawn of such a broad consensus, conservation debates have now focused more narrowly on the means of attaining the goal of conserving biological diversity. The conservation community in India, as in other regions in the tropics, stands polarised between two forceful conservation paradigms: preservationism and sustainable use |
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