The document discusses the LiveDiverse project which aims to improve livelihoods while protecting biodiversity in developing countries. It examines six case study areas across Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central and South America. The overall strategy involves creating a knowledge base on vulnerabilities, public perceptions, mapping vulnerable areas, identifying biodiversity and livelihood "hotspots", developing scenarios, and formulating policy recommendations. The project brings together natural and social science perspectives to engage stakeholders and develop sustainable solutions at the biodiversity-livelihood interface.

2. Professor Geoffrey D. Gooch, PhD
Department of Management and Economics
Linköping University, Sweden
and
UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science
University of Dundee, Scotland

3. Sustainable Livelihoods and Biodiversity
in Developing Countries

4. The challenge is to improve Livelihoods for local
people while at the same time protecting
Biodiversity

7. LiveDiverse Partners

8. EU LiveDiverse
Rural riparian areas
Scotland
Sweden
Netherlands
Italy
Costa Rica Vietnam
Terraba River basin Ba-Be / Na Hang
India
Nature Conservation
Western Ghats
South Africa
Greater Kruger Area
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9. Ba Be Lake, NW Vietnam

12. Transport on the Ba Be Lake

13. Local villagers, Ba Be, NW Vietnam

18. The Western Ghats,
India

27. Mangrove Delta, Terraba River, Costa Rica

31. The Greater Kruger Area, South Africa

33. Case Study Area

34. Mutale
River
Lake
Fundudzi
Makuya
Park

35. Overall strategy of LiveDiverse
1. The creation of a multidisciplinary
knowledge base and vulnerability
mapping.
2. Construction of way/methodology to
identify public perceptions, beliefs, values
towards biodiversity and sustainable
livelihoods.
3. Identification and mapping of the areas
vulnerable
– Natural science criteria.
– Socio-economic, legal and political
– Cultural-spiritual point of view
4. The construction of a GIS vulnerability
data base

36. Overall strategy of LiveDiverse
5. The identification of the biodiversity and
sustainable livelihoods ‘hot-spots
– a high risk (according to the natural
science criteria)
– and a low capability to manage those
risks (according to the socio-economic,
cultural-spiritual and political criteria).
6. The use of the knowledge gained in these
processes to construct biodiversity and
livelihood scenarios.
7. The formulation of policy
recommendations.

37. LiveDiverse components and their interactions
WP1 Management, Integration and Dissemination
WP2 Multi-disciplinary Knowledge Base
and vulnerability mapping
WP3 WP9
WP4 Public Beliefs, Perceptions, Attitudes
Co-operation Institutions,
and Preferences
with value-based
stakeholders, strategies, and
social groups, policy
NGOs WP5 Instruments
Ecological
WP7 WP6
Cultural Spiritual Socio-economic
WP8 Scenarios for Sustainable
livelihood and lifestyles
Constructive engagement with social groups and their representatives

39. Combined GIS
Mapping
Combined
Scenarios
Policy
recommendations
and project
proposals

40. Sesan River, Vietnam-Cambodia
Water for energy
Joint development
Business as usual
of HEP
HEP development
in Vietnam
Development of
common energy grid
Low level of Info sharing on High level of trans-
transboundary coop water release boundary
cooperation
Problems with
Improved
fishing and farming
environmental flow
in Cambodia
Development Joint development
Water for food and
of farming/fishing of fish production
fish production
in Vietnam

43. Socio-economic data (36 documents):
Access to piped water by municipality
Access to telephone by municipality
Age groups by municipality
Age of head of household by municipality
Area type by municipality
Citizenship by municipality
Country of birth by municipality
Disability by municipality
Economic active population by municipality
Economic sector by municipality
Employment status
Energy source for cooking by municipality
Energy source for heating by municipality
Energy source for lighting by municipality
Gender of head of household by municipality
Highest level of education by municipality
Highest level of education grouped by municipality
Household income by municipality
Household size by municipality

44. What are the central issues of the Livelihoods
and Biodiversity Interface in our case areas?
1. Agricultural systems and size/mix of production units
2. Competition over water (and HEP dams)
3. Size and type of rural communities
4. Alternative forms of livelihoods
5. Legal and policy systems and institutions
6. Human settlements in and around protected areas
7. Ability to interact with governance systems
8. Cultural and spiritual traditions

45. Science
Interface
Law and
Stakeholders
Policy

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