North–South Dialogue on Territorial Policies and Discourses: Insights for the Future of Nature Conservation

Pamela E. Degele and Belén Pedregal
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Pamela E. Degele: National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), CEII (FCPyS-UNCUYO), Centro Universitario UNCUYO s/n, Oficina 55 Ala Norte, Mendoza 5500, Argentina
Belén Pedregal: Department of Human Geography, Universidad de Sevilla, C/ Doña María de Padilla, 41004 Seville, Spain

Land, 2022, vol. 11, issue 7, 1-23

Abstract: Environmental issues such as the progressive loss of biodiversity on a global scale and climate change cannot be separated from other territorial problems caused by social injustice, economic inequality, access to natural resources, gender violence and the fight for human and nature’s rights. The evaluation of biodiversity management strategies must by necessity draw on a retrospective look at the interpretation of the problem and the conceptual approach of the general territorial management policies in which they are framed. From a critical view, these approaches have different nuances depending on the historical journey, theories and main actors involved with territorial policies in different regions of the world. In this work, we apply qualitative content analysis to contrast the key concepts on which the main European territorial policies of recent decades have been based with the main guidelines of the emerging Latin American territorial perspectives. Thus, we seek to initiate a dialogue between the northern hemisphere’s globally hegemonic notions of nature, territory, biodiversity and its management and new theories and proposals from the South, whilst simultaneously contrasting both with the content of the latest Convention on Biological Biodiversity Strategic Plan 2011–2020. We conclude with some recommendations aimed at building bridges and contributing to the construction of future global conservation strategies from a critical and territorial perspective that tends towards integrating sustainability with social and environmental justice.

Keywords: territorial policies; gender and indigenous perspectives; just transition; good living; territorial feminisms; post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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