Buffer Zones Around Protected Areas: A Brief Literature Review

Martino, Diego

doi:10.5070/g311510434

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“…In buffer zones there may be some human activity, but generally it is limited [49]. Creation of these areas increases the distance between protected zones and potential disturbances, limits edge effects, and thereby increases the conservation value of the protected area [50,51].…”

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A Healthy Park Needs Healthy Vegetation: The Story of Gorongosa National Park in the 21st Century

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Understanding trends or changes in biomass and biodiversity around conservation areas in Africa is important and has economic and societal impacts on the surrounding communities. Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique was established under unique conditions due to its complex history. In this study, we used a time-series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to explore seasonal trends in biomass between 2000 and 2016. In addition, vegetation directional persistence was created. This product is derived from the seasonal NDVI time series-based analysis and represents the accumulation of directional change in NDVI relative to a fixed benchmark (2000–2004). Trends in precipitation from Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) was explored from 2000–2016. Different vegetation covers are also considered across various landscapes, including a comparison between the Lower Gorongosa (savanna), Mount Gorongosa (rainforest), and surrounding buffer zones. Important findings include a decline in precipitation over the time of study, which most likely drives the observed decrease in NDVI. In terms of vegetation persistence, Lower Gorongosa had stronger positive trends than the buffer zone, and Mount Gorongosa had higher negative persistence overall. Directional persistence also varied by vegetation type. These are valuable findings for park managers and conservationists across the world.

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A Healthy Park Needs Healthy Vegetation: The Story of Gorongosa National Park in the 21st Century

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“…Buffer zones also play a strong role in legitimising this second generation of eco-frontiers. They demarcate nature in ways that support politically driven initiatives to exclude certain regions or populations from protected areas (Shafer 1999;Martino 2001;Neumann 2004;Paudel et al 2007). They have also been used as geopolitical resources in the context of In another instance, Caprivi Game Park -currently known as Bwabwata National Park -in Namibia, situated between Angola, Zambia and Botswana added a new layer into the politics of the Caprivi region.…”

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The Geopolitics of Protected Areas

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Introduction to Forum Maano Ramutsindela Research on the links between the environment and geopolitics shows that environmental themes have been used to support geopolitical arguments and objectives (Dalby 2014); to control territory and systems of production (Albert 1992; Mullaney 2014; Bluwstein and Lund 2019); and to forge or break international relations (O'Lear 2018). In the domain of nature conservation, geopolitical perspectives are useful for understanding the development of conservation areas and their management regimes, and how these reflect power relations (Albert 1992). They also shed light on conservation's changing agendas, techniques and logics (Biermann and Anderson 2017). A utilitarian conception of conservation geopolitics seeks to shape conservation interventions and to use a geopolitical perspective to answer pressing questions in conservation. These relate to the impact of

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“…How to define and delineate the geographical boundary of the conservation sites of cultural heritage has long been discussed in practice and by academics [15,16]. The Venice Charter in 1964 by a group of conservation professionals put forward two principles of heritage protection, continuity and integrity, which focus on the protection of the surrounding environment [29].…”

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Where to Preserve? Evaluating the Integrity Principle for Delineating Protection Scopes of Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

Yin

Zhang

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While establishing where to preserve in a world heritage site is critical for heritage protection, management and cultural sustainability, the approach to delineating protection scopes under the integrity principle remains less discussed in literature. This study explores a quantitative approach to evaluating the preservation scopes of the Kaiping Diaolou and Villages (KDVs), a world culture heritage in south China. Diaolous are multiple-story tower dwellings, originally built for defense purposes in the villages of Kaiping, with mixed Chinese and Western architectural styles. We investigate 1629 Diaolous with varying architectural and locational attributes and defensive functions for resisting invasion. We use a GIS-based analysis to identify the boundaries of defensive regions and then categorize them into four types, relying on principal component and clustering analysis. Results suggest that current protection scopes may overlook the spatial organization of Diaolous as a defensive system, failing to consider the cultural value of typology and boundary integrity. The delineation of protection scopes thus need to emphasize functional distribution and organization of historical buildings along with their architectural value.

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Buffer Zones Around Protected Areas: A Brief Literature Review

Cited by 55 publications

References 23 publications

A Healthy Park Needs Healthy Vegetation: The Story of Gorongosa National Park in the 21st Century

A Healthy Park Needs Healthy Vegetation: The Story of Gorongosa National Park in the 21st Century

The Geopolitics of Protected Areas

Where to Preserve? Evaluating the Integrity Principle for Delineating Protection Scopes of Kaiping Diaolou and Villages

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