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Towards meeting the Urban Biodiversity Conservation Challenge in the City of Cape Town: The Cape Town Biodiversity Strategy and CUBES Cape Town Initiative
| Author: |
Jackson, J., Alfsen-Norodom, C., Davis, G., Katzschner, T., and Stanvliet, R. |
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International Conference on "Biodiversity: Science and Governance" UNESCO, Paris |
| Abstract: |
Cape Town, at the heart of the Cape Floral Kingdom, is regarded as a global 'urban biodiversity hotspot'. The City of Cape Town has adopted a Biodiversity Strategy as an integrated and co-ordinated approach to the protection of its unique biodiversity. The Biodiversity Strategy recognizes the need for biodiversity conservation to be undertaken within the socio-economic realities of the City and the context of the imperative of poverty alleviation. CUBES Cape Town, a partnership between public sector organizations, with links to research institutes and international agencies, is a partnership that can contribute to the achievement of biodiversity conservation in Cape Town. CUBES Cape Town has as its thematic focus the interface between biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation. It is believed that interdisciplinary interaction can significantly contribute to greater understanding of this important interface and potentially mitigate against supposedly conflicting sector goals, with both biodiversity conservation and the socio-economic development agendas being attained. |
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