are now said to have assumed a mandate to go beyond just biodiversity conservation to improving the welfare of local … protected areas, there is a paradigm shift that seeks to promote a model of biodiversity conservation where livelihood … activities are not just seen as compatible with biodiversity conservation but that it actually drives and facilitates conserv... …

The relationship between land use and biodiversity is important to understand the decision support systems in order to … attain sustainability. Nowadays, land use and biodiversity management is focused on protected areas, discarding other … habitats, tending to favor exclusive property rights over the territory, thus creating unfeasible solutions for society. Azores …