Can engaging local people’s interests reduce forest degradation in Central Vietnam?

Boissière, Manuel; Sheil, Douglas; Basuki, Imam; Wan, M.; Le, Hien Nam

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0174-8_12

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“…To engage local stakeholders in and around SUFs the Vietnamese government shifted to their own form of "collaborative approaches" under the premise of protected area management and improve the protection of forest habitat and biodiversity [55]. This shift towards co-management within SUFs was formalized by the 2003 Management Strategy for Protected Area System and the 2004 Land Law set legal rights and responsibilities of local resource user involvement, and subsequently strengthened by the governments obligations under the Convention on Biological Diversity Program of Work on Protected Areas [56], a number of foreign-funded pilot SUF co-management projects [7,57], and reforms to the policies related to state management and local authority capacity [58].…”

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The Vietnamese State and Administrative Co-Management of Nature Reserves

2016

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Abstract:The Vietnamese government has introduced co-management in its national system of special-use forests (SUFs) to improve the effectiveness of nature and biodiversity conservation. One of the major challenges is to allow flexibility and local adaptability of co-management coordinated by SUF management boards within the overall still-rigid structure of vertical state networks. Using a critical institutional perspective, this paper examines the influence of the vertical and horizontal linkages that underline the form and function of SUF co-management. Data is presented from a nation-wide survey of 113 SUFs, 22 random in-depth interviews, and four in-depth case studies of SUFs. The results show that the success of co-management in centralized states like Vietnam depends on the greater devolution of allocative power from central to district governments to facilitate horizontal networked collaboration with local communities. Yet the results also indicate that the central state maintains an important role in setting the conditions that allow for the success of these networked collaborations. Based on these findings the conclusions reflect on the need to further develop a critical institutional approach for understanding the purpose, interests, and resources of co-management in the context of centralized states.

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The Vietnamese State and Administrative Co-Management of Nature Reserves

2016

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“…Firstly, it was acknowledged that communities that live near areas of environmental significance could positively contribute to the management and protection of those areas (Colfer 2005;Tole 2010;May 2010). Secondly, environmental management was recognised as a potential vehicle for poverty alleviation because the poorest people are often the most directly dependent on and connected with their environment (Asia News Monitor 2009; Boissière et al 2009;Adhikari & Agrawal 2013;WWF 2015). Hence, researchers, non-government organisations (NGOs) and governments have been exploring how PES can help support livelihoods.…”

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“…Many reviews of community environmental management and PES advocate for strong community involvement and claim that community involvement is a crucial feature of successful programs (Baker et al 2001;Colfer 2005;Sheil et al 2006;Boissière et al 2009;Mustalahti 2009;May 2010;Tole 2010;Altman 2012;Thuy et al 2013;KimDung, et al 2013;Measham & Lumbasi 2013). This suggests that PES are more successful when communities are consulted about the nature and extent of their involvement and provide the impetus for the program.…”

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“…Restrictions on harvesting forest products are consistently identified as problematic aspects of conservation programs (Boissière et al 2009;McElwee 2009). Indeed, Vandergeest and Wittayapak (2010: 6) state that, at a global level, 'the tendency is … to shift responsibility for resource protection to local communities without granting the rights to use those resources for their livelihoods.'…”

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Payments for environmental services and community-level socioeconomic wellbeing: Comparing programs in Vietnam and Australia

Sandgren¹

2016

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The success of Payments for Environmental Services (PES) programs depend crucially on local conditions, although some considerations can help make PES schemes more successful in any locale. Many PES programs are in their infancy yet have ambitious goals for environmental preservation and poverty alleviation. Monitoring and evaluating the outcomes of PES programs can provide insights into how they can best achieve these goals. This research adds to existing PES case studies by evaluating new data on one village's participation in a World Wildlife Fund PES scheme. A village in central Vietnam was visited and the Administrative Chief of the village was interviewed to gauge the success of the PES scheme in that village. The comments from the Vietnamese village were then compared to written and verbal accounts of the Working on Country program in Australia to elucidate factors that can make PES schemes successful. This comparison revealed four key factors that can improve the outcomes of PES schemes. Community involvement in the design, implementation and evaluation of projects is crucial. Furthermore, the monetary remuneration that the community receives should be adequate. In addition, PES schemes are particularly successful when the community receives non-monetary benefits, such as social or cultural benefits, from participating in the program. Finally, the involvement of outside organisations, including the state, needs to be adequate and appropriate to ensure positive socioeconomic outcomes for the communities involved.

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“…In addition, there are mounting ethical and practical concerns whenever people are displaced by conservation [12] and numerous accounts of local stakeholders' hostility to conservation authorities as a result of exclusion have been noted [5,13]. Communities can become frustrated at seeing resources they once used and controlled being poorly protected when they themselves would intervene if they were authorized to do so [14].…”

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Exploring Local Perspectives for Conservation Planning: A Case Study from a Remote Forest Community in Indonesian Papua

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Forests

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Reconciling conservation and livelihoods is a concern wherever forests are important in local people's lives. We plead for engaging these people in survey activities to clarify what is important to them, as a first step in conservation planning. This will help to address their priorities and gain their guidance and support for interventions. This paper presents the results of such a survey with the community of Kwerba in Mamberamo, a remote and little known part of Indonesian Papua. Views and priorities were explored through interviews, scoring exercises, community mapping and a field survey. Whereas small gardens provided most staple food, culture and livelihoods were linked to the forest. People scored primary forest highest for nearly all use categories. Primary forest was particularly highly valued as a source of construction materials, ornaments and rituals, and as a hunting place. We developed a list of the overall most important plants and animals. Many natural OPEN ACCESSForests 2015, 6 3279 resources were used, but few were commercially exploited. The community had rules to control access to certain areas and resources. Taboos to restrict access to sacred places were also maintained. Our evaluation identified opportunities to achieve conservation outcomes jointly with the Kwerba people. In follow-up activities, the community presented local government with a land-use plan for their territory. The government recognized the value of our approach and requested training to implement it more widely in the region.

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Can engaging local people’s interests reduce forest degradation in Central Vietnam?

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

The Vietnamese State and Administrative Co-Management of Nature Reserves

The Vietnamese State and Administrative Co-Management of Nature Reserves

Payments for environmental services and community-level socioeconomic wellbeing: Comparing programs in Vietnam and Australia

Exploring Local Perspectives for Conservation Planning: A Case Study from a Remote Forest Community in Indonesian Papua

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