Adaptation of Local Knowledge Societies and Systems to Global Change

Carson Fellow and Director of the Global Diversity Foundation Gary
Martin examines the cultural implications of conservation
designation (i.e. the system of preserving certain areas of land in
national park, or related, structures from outside development).
Martin explains how protected areas shape the livelihoods of those
who live “next door”; he also considers the way that such
structures impact both biological and cultural diversity. Gary
Martin is an ethno-ecologist who focuses on the inextricable links
between biological and cultural diversity and the role of
communities in maintaining socio-ecological resilience. Since 1998,
he has been a research fellow and lecturer at the School of
Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent in
Canterbury, UK and in 2000 he founded the Global Diversity
Foundation (GDF).