La Hotte Biosphere Reserve: Potential for Haiti's Sustainable Development
- Defines the biosphere reserve through conservation, development and knowledge-support functions.
- Frames La Hotte as a territorial development instrument, not only a conservation label.
- Places livelihoods and biodiversity protection inside one planning model.
La Hotte is presented here not simply as a protected landscape, but as a territorial development instrument. The document defines a biosphere reserve as a national space recognized by UNESCO that must conserve biodiversity, improve livelihoods, sustain social, economic and cultural conditions for viable development, and support research, monitoring, demonstration and training. That framing is important for Haiti because it places biodiversity protection and local development inside the same institution rather than as competing land uses.
How to cite
Government of Haiti; Ministry of the Environment (MDE); Interministerial Committee for Territorial Planning (CIAT), 2016, La Hotte Biosphere Reserve: Potential for Haiti's Sustainable Development, http://ciat.gouv.ht/sites/default/files/articles/files/Pr%C3%A9sentation%20r%C3%A9serve%20biosph%C3%A8re%20La%20Hotte.pdf