Kent H Redford
Biographic Data
| ID | 211633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kent H Redford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kent H |
| FAMILY NAME | Redford |
| SIGNATURE | REDFORD K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wildlife Conservation Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4883-822X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Protected and conversed areas in a changing world: Key themes for a global response
Much has changed in the ambition for and challenges to protected and conserved areas since the last IUCN World Parks Congress in 2014. As such, the IUCN World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress 2027 (WPC27) will be a critical milestone for global conservation, arriving at a time of ecological urgency and profound societal shifts. WPC27 will be organised around three integrated themes, each designed for their transformative potential: 1) Globa…
Improving conservation practice with principles and tools from systems thinking and evaluation
Achieving nature conservation goals require grappling with ‘wicked’ problems. These intractable problems arise from the complexity and dynamism of the social–ecological systems in which they are embedded. To enhance their ability to address these problems, conservation professionals are increasingly looking to the transdisciplines of systems thinking and evaluation, which provide philosophies, theories, methods, tools and approaches that show pro…
Why social values cannot be changed for the sake of conservation
The hope for creating widespread change in social values has endured among conservation professionals since early calls by Aldo Leopold for a “land ethic.” However, there has been little serious attention in conservation to the fields of investigation that address values, how they are formed, and how they change. We introduce a social–ecological systems conceptual approach in which values are seen not only as motivational goals people hold but al…
Privately protected areas: Advances and challenges in guidance, policy and documentation
Privately protected areas (PPAs) are increasingly recognized as important conservation initiatives, as evidenced by recent developments that support recognizing and documenting them alongside protected areas under other governance types. Advances in guidance on PPAs have been accompanied by increasing support within international policy arenas, and more PPAs are being reported to the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). Despite this, nationa…
Get the science right when paying for nature's services
Few projects adequately address design and evaluation
Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity
Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration
Human activity is rapidly transforming most of Earth’s natural systems. How this transformation is impacting human health, whose health is at greatest risk, and the magnitude of the associated disease burden are relatively new subjects within the field of environmental health. We discuss what is known about the human health implications of changes in the structure and function of natural systems and propose that these changes are affecting human …
Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Challenge of Saving Nature
In a seminal and underappreciated book, Green Imperialism, Grove (1995) explains the rise of a global environmental consciousness as a result of European colonial expansion. Grove details how, by the mid-seventeenth century, “... a coherent and relatively organized awareness of the ecological impact of the demands of emergent capitalism and colonial rule started to develop, to grow into a fully fledged understanding of the limited nature of the e…
Place, Conservation, and Displacement
From p. 56: \n "The special section contains different and differently articulated views about whether displacement is a term more appropriately reserved for physical removal and resettlement or if it should include the economic, social, cultural, and other forms of loss resulting from protected areas. The issues at stake are both intellectual and practical
Dangers of carbon-based conservation
Conservation and Displacement: An Overview
protestations vary in the evidence, conviction, and passion with which they are made.The criticism that blunts the moral and ethical focus on biodiversity conservation is that which highlights the misery conservation programs impose on people.If conservation strategies distress human populations, especially those who are less powerful, politically marginalized, and poor, little that conservationists argue on behalf of biodiversity makes sense.A s…
Diversity and homogenization in the endgame
State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans
The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild
In Genesis, God blesses human beings and bids us to take dominion over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, and every other living thing. We are entreated to be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth, and subdue it (Gen. 1:28). The bad news, and the good news, is that we have almost succeeded. There is little debate in scientific circles about the importance of human influence on ecosystems. According to scientists' reports, we appropriat…
Extracting Humans from Nature
After the Trees: Living on the Transamazon Highway
When construction of Transamazon Highway was proposed in 1970, Brazilian media depicted a road stretching out through a flat expanse of mature forests, its surface paved with glittering stones and precious metals - purported riches of Amazon yet to be discovered. But, as Douglas Stewart found while traveling highway in 1989, the forest deceives. The 1,000-kilometer trip from Belem to Altamira took days, six buses, three boats, and a ten-hour hitc…
Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia
Forest‐Dwelling Native Amazonians and the Conservation of Biodiversity: Interests in Common or in Collision?
Although concern for biodiversity and its conservation originated in the biological sciences, with growing international interest an increasing number of interest groups are claiming standing in discussions of the best ways to conserve biodiversity. One of these groups, formed by various indigenous peoples and their advocates, has repeatedly defended its claim to standing by stating that indigenous peoples are well equipped to conserve biodiversi…
The Empty Forest
Kent H. Redford; The Empty Forest: Many large animals are already ecologically extinct in vast areas of neotropical forest where the vegetation still appears in
Commercial Hunting by Subsistence Hunters: Sirionó Indians and Paraguayan Caiman in Lowland Bolivia
There is increasing interest in including indigenous peoples of Amazonia in conservation activities. Conservation biologists and anthropologists often rely on assumptions of sustainable resource use by these native Amazonians based on traditional patterns of subsistence. As indigenous societies become more market oriented, however, they often must exploit floristic and faunal resources to meet growing needs for trade goods. Little is known about …
Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians
The Game of Choice: Patterns of Indian and Colonist Hunting in the Neotropics
The relationship between frugivory and insectivory in primates
Conservation and Displacement: An Overview
protestations vary in the evidence, conviction, and passion with which they are made.The criticism that blunts the moral and ethical focus on biodiversity conservation is that which highlights the misery conservation programs impose on people.If conservation strategies distress human populations, especially those who are less powerful, politically marginalized, and poor, little that conservationists argue on behalf of biodiversity makes sense.A s…
The Game of Choice: Patterns of Indian and Colonist Hunting in the Neotropics
Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians
Dangers of carbon-based conservation
Improving conservation practice with principles and tools from systems thinking and evaluation
Achieving nature conservation goals require grappling with ‘wicked’ problems. These intractable problems arise from the complexity and dynamism of the social–ecological systems in which they are embedded. To enhance their ability to address these problems, conservation professionals are increasingly looking to the transdisciplines of systems thinking and evaluation, which provide philosophies, theories, methods, tools and approaches that show pro…
Diversity and homogenization in the endgame
Commercial Hunting by Subsistence Hunters: Sirionó Indians and Paraguayan Caiman in Lowland Bolivia
There is increasing interest in including indigenous peoples of Amazonia in conservation activities. Conservation biologists and anthropologists often rely on assumptions of sustainable resource use by these native Amazonians based on traditional patterns of subsistence. As indigenous societies become more market oriented, however, they often must exploit floristic and faunal resources to meet growing needs for trade goods. Little is known about …
The relationship between frugivory and insectivory in primates
The Game of Choice: Patterns of Indian and Colonist Hunting in the Neotropics
Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians
The Empty Forest
Kent H. Redford; The Empty Forest: Many large animals are already ecologically extinct in vast areas of neotropical forest where the vegetation still appears in
Commercial Hunting by Subsistence Hunters: Sirionó Indians and Paraguayan Caiman in Lowland Bolivia
There is increasing interest in including indigenous peoples of Amazonia in conservation activities. Conservation biologists and anthropologists often rely on assumptions of sustainable resource use by these native Amazonians based on traditional patterns of subsistence. As indigenous societies become more market oriented, however, they often must exploit floristic and faunal resources to meet growing needs for trade goods. Little is known about …
Forest‐Dwelling Native Amazonians and the Conservation of Biodiversity: Interests in Common or in Collision?
Although concern for biodiversity and its conservation originated in the biological sciences, with growing international interest an increasing number of interest groups are claiming standing in discussions of the best ways to conserve biodiversity. One of these groups, formed by various indigenous peoples and their advocates, has repeatedly defended its claim to standing by stating that indigenous peoples are well equipped to conserve biodiversi…
After the Trees: Living on the Transamazon Highway
When construction of Transamazon Highway was proposed in 1970, Brazilian media depicted a road stretching out through a flat expanse of mature forests, its surface paved with glittering stones and precious metals - purported riches of Amazon yet to be discovered. But, as Douglas Stewart found while traveling highway in 1989, the forest deceives. The 1,000-kilometer trip from Belem to Altamira took days, six buses, three boats, and a ten-hour hitc…
Risky Rivers: The Economics and Politics of Floodplain Farming in Amazonia
Extracting Humans from Nature
The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild
In Genesis, God blesses human beings and bids us to take dominion over the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, and every other living thing. We are entreated to be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth, and subdue it (Gen. 1:28). The bad news, and the good news, is that we have almost succeeded. There is little debate in scientific circles about the importance of human influence on ecosystems. According to scientists' reports, we appropriat…
State of the Wild: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans
Diversity and homogenization in the endgame
Payment for Ecosystem Services and the Challenge of Saving Nature
In a seminal and underappreciated book, Green Imperialism, Grove (1995) explains the rise of a global environmental consciousness as a result of European colonial expansion. Grove details how, by the mid-seventeenth century, “... a coherent and relatively organized awareness of the ecological impact of the demands of emergent capitalism and colonial rule started to develop, to grow into a fully fledged understanding of the limited nature of the e…
Place, Conservation, and Displacement
From p. 56: \n "The special section contains different and differently articulated views about whether displacement is a term more appropriately reserved for physical removal and resettlement or if it should include the economic, social, cultural, and other forms of loss resulting from protected areas. The issues at stake are both intellectual and practical
Dangers of carbon-based conservation
Conservation and Displacement: An Overview
protestations vary in the evidence, conviction, and passion with which they are made.The criticism that blunts the moral and ethical focus on biodiversity conservation is that which highlights the misery conservation programs impose on people.If conservation strategies distress human populations, especially those who are less powerful, politically marginalized, and poor, little that conservationists argue on behalf of biodiversity makes sense.A s…
Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity
Human health impacts of ecosystem alteration
Human activity is rapidly transforming most of Earth’s natural systems. How this transformation is impacting human health, whose health is at greatest risk, and the magnitude of the associated disease burden are relatively new subjects within the field of environmental health. We discuss what is known about the human health implications of changes in the structure and function of natural systems and propose that these changes are affecting human …
Get the science right when paying for nature's services
Few projects adequately address design and evaluation
Why social values cannot be changed for the sake of conservation
The hope for creating widespread change in social values has endured among conservation professionals since early calls by Aldo Leopold for a “land ethic.” However, there has been little serious attention in conservation to the fields of investigation that address values, how they are formed, and how they change. We introduce a social–ecological systems conceptual approach in which values are seen not only as motivational goals people hold but al…
Privately protected areas: Advances and challenges in guidance, policy and documentation
Privately protected areas (PPAs) are increasingly recognized as important conservation initiatives, as evidenced by recent developments that support recognizing and documenting them alongside protected areas under other governance types. Advances in guidance on PPAs have been accompanied by increasing support within international policy arenas, and more PPAs are being reported to the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA). Despite this, nationa…
Improving conservation practice with principles and tools from systems thinking and evaluation
Achieving nature conservation goals require grappling with ‘wicked’ problems. These intractable problems arise from the complexity and dynamism of the social–ecological systems in which they are embedded. To enhance their ability to address these problems, conservation professionals are increasingly looking to the transdisciplines of systems thinking and evaluation, which provide philosophies, theories, methods, tools and approaches that show pro…
Protected and conversed areas in a changing world: Key themes for a global response
Much has changed in the ambition for and challenges to protected and conserved areas since the last IUCN World Parks Congress in 2014. As such, the IUCN World Protected and Conserved Areas Congress 2027 (WPC27) will be a critical milestone for global conservation, arriving at a time of ecological urgency and profound societal shifts. WPC27 will be organised around three integrated themes, each designed for their transformative potential: 1) Globa…
Geography (14 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 works) · Biology (10 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Environmental Science (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Business (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Political science (5 works)