Open AccessLinking poverty and the environment: participatory community-based approaches, games of imperfect information and the Convention on Biological Diversity
Author(s) -
Carlos Potiara Castro
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
meridiano 47
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1518-1219
DOI - 10.20889/m47e18001
Subject(s) - convention on biological diversity , poverty , citizen journalism , diversity (politics) , imperfect , convention , face (sociological concept) , vulnerability (computing) , political science , environmental planning , sociology , law , ecology , geography , computer science , social science , computer security , biodiversity , biology , linguistics , philosophy
This paper discusses the linkages between the agendas of poverty alleviation and of environmental protection through initiatives adopting participatory community-based approaches. These actions intend to strengthen and increase the effectiveness of policies focusing local and traditional populations that are in a situation of vulnerability. The challenges they face are presented here in the form of games with the purpose to show models explaining them. And finally, a participatory instrument, raised in the Convention on Biological Diversity and based on customary law, is brought to the reader.