摘要
热带雨林保护专家最近认为,毁林"热点地区(hot spots)"面临破坏的森林是无法换救的,而如果保护组织能够将注意力集中在保护那些有着原始雨林的"冷点地区(cold spots)"和边远地区,就可以更加有效地发挥作用。冷点地区保护策略的倡导者认为,在毁林的"热点地区"进行可持续发展的努力没有什么效果。厄瓜多尔沿海地区森林迅速破坏的一个具体案例就证明了这一点。这一地区的可持续发展采用了两种组织形式,一个主要集中于在一些较小的村庄里采用可持续的林业技术,而另一个则集中于创建一个公共舞台(a civic arena),以讨论和解决区域可持续发展问题。这两类努力都已经取得了某种成功,而且还可以为那些正经历热带雨林迅速破坏的地区提供可持续发展的范例。
Specialists in tropical rain forest conservation have recently begun to suggest that forests facing imminent destruction in deforestation 'hot spots' can not be saved, and that conservation organizations would use their resources more effectively if they focused on preserving 'cold spots', remote places with intact rain forests. The advocates of the cold spot strategy contend that sustainable development efforts in deforestation 'hot spots' are ineffective. A case study of sustainable development in a rapidly deforesting region of coastal Ecuador questions this contention. Sustainable development in this region takes two organizational forms, one focused on the adoption of sustainable forestry techniques in a small set of villages and the other centered around the creation of a civic arena for discussing and resolving regional sustainable development issues. This two-pronged effort has achieved some success and may provide a model for sustainable development in places experiencing rapid tropical deforestation.Ambio, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 78-82, 2000
