Community-based incentives for nature conservation / Lucy Emerton

Economic incentive measures play a crucial role in nature conservation at all levels of society – local through to global. At the community level, though, it is particularly important to have appropriate incentive measures for nature conservation as natural resource use is so closely linked with livelihood issues at this level. This section give a bit of background of the linkages between economic activities and natural systems at the community level and then outlines the structure for the rest of the document and resource kit.