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The evolving role of protected areas<br />

Shifting paradigms - from site to system to networks<br />

• Shift from national parks as signature areas for protection.<br />

• Human being as an important component<br />

• Activities and actors beyond PAs boundaries are crucial<br />

• Ecology and social-economic systems are interlinked<br />

• Effective human management of ecosystems will not occur without a clear understanding of the<br />

place of people in the context of the ecosystem.<br />

Human ecology<br />

• The study of the relationship between humans and their respective environment.<br />

• Ecosystem management and human ecology – different sides of the same coin<br />

• Four types of human relationships :( Peterson, 1996): Dominion, Stewardship, Participation and<br />

Abdication<br />

Relationship between conservation and ecotourism<br />

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