Participatory Biodiversity Conservation

Cristina Baldauf has a BSc from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, MSc from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, and PhD from Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Currently, she is Associate Professor at Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-árido in Brazil, where she leads the Ethnoecology and Biodiversity Laboratory. Her research explores the relationship between traditional/local livelihoods and conservation using interdisciplinary approaches. She has an extensive experience in projects related to participatory biodiversity conservation in distinct regions and biomes.

1. Concepts and evolving perspectives on biodiversity conservation.- 2. Domesticated Nature: The culturally constructed niche of humanity.- 3. The right to food? Protected areas, conservation and access.- 4. The role of local perceptions in environmental diagnosis.- 5. People and nature conservation: Participatory praxis in natural protected areas planning and management.- 6. Policy trends in the recognition of indigenous and local knowledge in Amazonia.- 7. Community-based management of Amazonian biodiversity assets.- 8. Mariculture of macroalgae as a social and environmental alternative in traditional communities located in the semi-arid coastal region of northeastern Brazil.- 9. Challenges for rural livelihoods, participatory agroforestry and biodiversity conservation in a neotropical Mexican MAB reserve.- 10. Participatory monitoring of natural commons in Brazil: Lessons from the literature and the field.- 11. Productive restoration as atool for socio-ecological landscape conservation: The case of "La Montaña" in Guerrero, Mexico.- 12. ATBC's conservation activities around the world: How effective have our declarations and resolutions been in driving policy change and management responses?.- 13. Avoiding deforestation policies: A socio-political approach.- 14. Participatory biodiversity conservation: What prospects?.