title: Social Sciences and landscape analysis: opportunities for the improvement of conservation policy design.
abstract: This article develops a methodology aimed at generating a systematic social diagnosis of social and natural landscapes. The analytical process is divided into six easily replicable and causatively connected steps. The goal is two-fold: first, to present the inextricable connections between physical landscapes and the communities that occupy them. And second, to provide a fundamental tool to public policy designers that should simultaneously improve social acceptability of conservation policies and policy efficiency and effectiveness. Finally, this methodology is consciously heterogeneous from a theoretical perspective. This article puts together, in fruitful dialogue, contributions from varying places on the social theory spectrum: from political economy to poststructural theory.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology and McGill School of Environment, McGill University, Room 717, Leacock Building, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Que., Canada H3A 2T7. Ismael.vaccaro@mcgill.ca
authors.forename: Ismael
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vaccaro
authors.forename: Karma
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Norman
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D006802:Human Activities; D011640:Public Policy; D012942:Social Sciences; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors