title: Ecological solidarity as a conceptual tool for rethinking ecological and social interdependence in conservation policy for protected areas and their surrounding landscape.
abstract: Policy for biodiversity conservation must evolve to cope with the increasing human footprint on natural systems. A major issue here is the need for policy for protected areas, which integrates their surrounding landscape and local human populations in the construction of socially grounded measures. To illustrate current conceptual thinking in this direction we present and provide a conceptual basis for a recent initiative in national park policy in France that is based on "ecological solidarity". In the light of other policy ideas and tools that have recently emerged for the co-construction of conservation policy, we argue that this concept provides an imaginative step towards consolidating ecological and social interdependence in biodiversity policy that goes beyond statutory park boundaries.
authors.affiliation: UMR 5175, Centre d'écologie fonctionnelle et évolutive, CNRS, 1919, route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier cedex 5, France. john.thompson@cefe.cnrs.fr
authors.forename: John D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Thompson
authors.forename: Raphaël
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mathevet
authors.forename: Olivia
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Delanoë
authors.forename: Chantal
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gil-Fourrier
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bonnin
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cheylan
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D057231:Climate Change; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D004463:Ecology; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D019368:Nature; D057766:Policy; D012931:Social Environment