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La Amistad Biosphere and AMISCONDE

Many efforts are underway at sites all over the world to achieve sustainable development. Overall, much thought, huge labor, and great resources are going into these efforts. Setting our sights on sustainability is a vital goal. This goal should include sustainable conservation as well as sustainable development. Perhaps in no single instance has sustainability been ideally achieved as yet. However, we are moving closer to attaining this goal through diverse dialogues, numerous ground level applications, and from appraisals of past achievements. The record of accomplishment to date speaks to the complexity of the sustainability task and the ever-changing biophysical environments and human systems involved. This collection of papers examines one sustainability effort, the AMISCONDE partnership in Costa Rica in the buffer zone of La Amistad Biosphere Reserve, which seeks to find effective conservation and development. It is a work in progress and so our appraisal is too. The papers in this volume look at many aspects of this multifaceted project. All the papers seek to aid this important effort become more successful. AMISCONDE, like all other projects, can benefit from constructive feedback and ideas about how it can become more successful. We must find practical steps to accelerate progress toward sustainability everywhere. Even if we are less successful at sustainable development in any particular case than we hope, we can learn from both successful and unsuccessful efforts. All case studies including those in this volume provide an opportunity to learn and improve. The lessons may apply broadly.