INTEGRATING SOCIAL DIMENSION IN THE MANAGERIAL PARADIGMS OF NATURE CONSERVATION
CARMEN VALENTINA RADULESCU
ABSTRACT. – Integrating social dimension in the managerial paradigms of nature conservation. Biodiversity loss is a major global concern addressed with high priority by the environmental policies of the last decades. Nevertheless, species extinction and the reduction of areas covered by natural ecosystems continued with path considered alarming against the level required by a global ecosystem which is able to provide resources and living condition for an adequate level of human welfare. Nature conservation is the field of ecological policy that is directly responsible for the safeguarding and administration of natural ecosystems, although their state is influenced by other policies such as energy, agriculture, and tourism policies. Inconsistent progresses in biodiversity protection along with novel management perspectives led to a number of transformations in nature conservation that resulted in the emergence of new managerial paradigms. The paper analyzes this transformations and argue the need to integrate social dimension by referring to the contrast between needs and results in nature conservation, interdependencies among social and ecological systems, the way of formulating alternatives for decision making and others. Meanwhile, there are compared the operational formulas with different levels of integration for the social dimension.
Keywords: nature conservation, management, social dimension, ecosystem.
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