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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Protected</strong> <strong>Landscape</strong> <strong>Approach</strong>: Linking Nature, Culture and Community<br />

A public meeting with communities in the Mata Atlantica Biosphere Reserve (Brazil).<br />

<strong>The</strong> protected landscape approach is inclusive, relying on participatory processes and<br />

partnerships with diverse stakeholders. Clayton F. Lino<br />

Regeneration of catchment <strong>for</strong>ests by a few villages in the catchment of River Arvari in<br />

the drought-prone state of Rajasthan has turned this once seasonal river into a perennial<br />

river. Now nearly 90 villages have resolved to <strong>for</strong>m a River Parliament and protect the<br />

catchment of the river. Shown here are a traditional water-harvesting structure, the<br />

regenerating thorn <strong>for</strong>est in the background, and some of the villagers involved with the<br />

River Parliament. Ashish Kothari<br />

Plate 4

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