Analyzing the Impacts of forest Ecosystem Services on Livelihood Security and Sustainability: A Case Study of Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand

Kumar, Harish; Pandey, Bindhy Wasini; Anand, Sridhar

doi:10.1016/j.ijgeop.2019.05.003

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“…On the other hand, agricultural and forestry practitioners who depend on material output seek higher added-value industrial activities under PA management. This trend of ecological and cultural valorisation in protected area is becoming common [55][56][57] and is also hinted by the results that middle-and high-income families that tend to engage in tourism operating. Moreover, tea farmers and tourism operators prioritised eco-tourism and tea, respectively, indicating their expectation of livelihood diversification based on the combination of provisioning and culture services, which can be conservation-compatible.…”

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Examining Linkages among Livelihood Strategies, Ecosystem Services, and Social Well-Being to Improve National Park Management

Gallagher

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2021

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This research examines perceptions of ecosystem services (ES) and social well-being in the Wuyishan National Park, China. This study analyses the importance of and linkages between them based on the impact of new designation of protected areas on this social-ecological system. Realisation of rural well-being is critical to park-people relations in populated protected areas, and effective resolution is needed to achieve positive conservation outcomes. We conducted 372 structured interviews with community members with different livelihood strategies. Key findings from the research include: (1) the importance of provisioning (e.g., tea, rice, timber) and cultural ES (e.g., local culture, eco-tourism) is related to both current livelihood necessity and future development pursuit. (2) The perceived material well-being is higher than spiritual well-being, and high social well-being is closely related to high-income groups and those that think highly of cultural services, i.e., those engaged in non-agricultural activities (e.g., tourism) and tea cultivation. (3) Cultural values are better preserved in tea and rice cultivation and tourism, but in general, they are not incorporated to improve social well-being. The results suggest that Protected area (PA) management of local communities must seek cultural valorisation for differentiated livelihood strategies for rural people’s sustainable livelihood and stability of the social-ecological system.

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Examining Linkages among Livelihood Strategies, Ecosystem Services, and Social Well-Being to Improve National Park Management

Gallagher

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2021

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“…It is crucial to consider nexus resources security for various livelihood indicators through computing indices to evaluate their role in Sustainable Livelihoods (SL). Sustainable livelihoods Framework (SLF) has been considered and it has been found that the good indicators that provide a complete picture of all the relevant aspects of sustainable livelihoods in a transparent and easily understandable way (Kumar et al, 2019;Salim, 2019).…”

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Quantifying and linking Sustainable Land-water-energy-food nexus: A perspective of sustainable livelihoods in Gidabo Watershed, East African Rift Valley

hatiya¹,

Wei²,

Ketema³

et al. 2021

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BackgroundThe sustainable management of Land - Water - Energy - Food (LWEF) nexus requires an environmental characterization that allows the comparison of complex interlinkages between nexus resources and livelihoods. This complexity makes this characterization difficult coupled with limited study in quantifying sustainability of LWEF nexus and its linkage with livelihood. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the link between sustainable LWEF nexus and livelihoods. We used analytical hierarchy process and pairwise comparison matrix in combination with weighting model.ResultThe result of composite LWEF nexus index was 0.083 representing, low sustainability. This could be linked with nexus resources consumption, use, and management. From the analysis of the weight of land, water, energy and food nexus resources, the highest weight was observed for food. The focus of on food production only shows no clear synergy on provisioning, supporting or regulating nexus resources to address livelihoods. The result further showed that LWEF nexus resources have strong correlation with livelihoods. This was evidenced by social (r ≥ 0.8, P < 0.01), natural (r ≥ 0.3, P < 0.05) and physical (r ≥ 0.6, P < 0.01) livelihood indicators showed strong positive correlation with LWEF nexus resources.ConclusionBased on the finding of the study, it was observed that managing nexus resources not only provide a significant contribution to achieve sustainable LWEF nexus, but also be effective for enhancing livelihood through food security. This could be attained by strong evidence based policy to ensure sustainable use of nexus resources. The results provided by this study would serve as the foundation for future study, policy formulation and implementation.

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Quantifying and Linking Sustainable Land - Water - Energy - Food Nexus Resources and Livelihoods of Local Community in Ethiopia

Wolde¹,

Wei²,

Ketema³

et al. 2021

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The sustainable management of Land - Water - Energy - Food (LWEF) nexus requires an envi-ronmental characterization that allows the comparison of complex interlinkages between nexus resources and livelihoods. This complexity makes this characterization difficult coupled with limited study in quantifying sustainability of LWEF nexus and its linkage with livelihood. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the link between sustainable LWEF nexus and livelihoods. We used analytical hierarchy process and pairwise comparison matrix in combina-tion with weighting model. The result of composite LWEF nexus index was 0.083 representing, low sustainability. This could be linked with nexus resources consumption, use, and manage-ment. From the analysis of the weight of land, water, energy and food nexus resources, the highest weight was observed for food. The focus of on food production only shows no clear synergy on provisioning, supporting or regulating nexus resources to address livelihoods. The result further showed that LWEF nexus resources have strong correlation with livelihoods. This was evidenced by social (r>0.8, P<0.01), natural (r>0.3, P<0.05) and physical (r>0.6, P<0.01) liveli-hood indicators showed strong positive correlation with LWEF nexus resources. From this re-sults, it was observed that managing nexus resources not only provide a significant contribution to achieve sustainable LWEF nexus, but also be effective for enhancing livelihood through food security. This could be attained by strong evidence based policy to ensure sustainable use of nexus resources. The results provided by this study would serve as the foundation for future study, policy formulation and implementation.

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Analyzing the Impacts of forest Ecosystem Services on Livelihood Security and Sustainability: A Case Study of Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand

Cited by 44 publications

References 3 publications

Examining Linkages among Livelihood Strategies, Ecosystem Services, and Social Well-Being to Improve National Park Management

Examining Linkages among Livelihood Strategies, Ecosystem Services, and Social Well-Being to Improve National Park Management

Quantifying and linking Sustainable Land-water-energy-food nexus: A perspective of sustainable livelihoods in Gidabo Watershed, East African Rift Valley

Quantifying and Linking Sustainable Land - Water - Energy - Food Nexus Resources and Livelihoods of Local Community in Ethiopia

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