Boundaries in the Protection of Nature Reserves
Schonewald-Cox CM. 1988. Boundaries in the Protection of Nature Reserves. BioScience. 38(7)
Most nature reserves are suffering challenges to their boundaries. Around the world, many nature reserves have shrunk in the face of development, human competition for resources, and changes in political ideologies. To remain, nature reserves must be respected. Enforcement can encourage obedience, but it is better to manage the human interactions in such a way that both the nature reserve managers and the local population see value in developing a buffer of experimentation. Buffer regions established as experimental areas between the core and surrounding regions of biosphere reserves should serve as good examples of constructive boundary management. But, these concepts should be pushed further to make the buffer (or experimental) areas strongly reflect the spatial, natural, and cultural (including economic) heterogeneity along the boundary's legnth.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Schonewald-Cox, Christine
- Units
- ORPI
- Keywords
- Desert Ecology