Ten concepts that greatly affect our understanding and responses to the causes of, and potential solutions to, the deeply interlinked planetary crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, and rapidly growing social inequalities around the world
1. PLACE AND HOME
2. WHAT MAKES COMMUNITY?
Persons versus individuals
Community versus society
3. WORLDVIEW, VALUES, AND ETHICS
Three types of values
Dualism – a pervasive legacy
Religions, faith traditions, transcendence
Key processes in valuations, prioritization
Making worldviews and value systems explicit
4. MOUNTAINS AS INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
Socioecological systems
Landscapes as mosaics of habitats and land uses
Differentiating between stakeholders and rights holders
5. RELATION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND NATURE
Relational turn in sustainability sciences
Nature’s benefits for people (aka ecosystem services)
People’s benefits for nature
6. CULTURE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
7. ECONOMIC STATUS QUO AND ‘NEW ECONOMICS’
Economics
Neoliberal capitalism (neoliberalism)
Reorganizing with a ‘new economics’
Transformational economics
8. INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES
9. TERRITORIES, GOVERNANCE, AND CONSERVATION
Territories of life
Governance diversity and vitality
Conservation governance
10. THE HUMAN RIGHT TO A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT
Universal rights
Collective rights of IPLCs