Community-based mangrove forest management: Implications for local livelihoods and coastal resource conservation along the Volta estuary catchment area of Ghana

Aheto, Denis Worlanyo; Kankam, Stephen; Okyere, Isaac; Mensah, Emmanuel Abeashi; Osman, Adams; Mensah, Justice Camillus

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.04.006

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“…Although community‐based protected areas have been shown to produce good conservation results elsewhere (Aheto et al, ; Zaldívar‐Jiménez, Ladrón‐de‐Guevara‐Porras, Pérez‐Ceballos, Díaz‐Mondragón, & Rosado‐Solórzano, ), the effectiveness of these co‐management strategies is still a topic of debate in LA&C (Datta, Chattopadhyay, & Guha, ; Gerhardinger, Godoy, Jones, Sales, & Ferreira, ; Magris & Barreto, ). In Brazil, Lopes, Silvano, and Begossi () suggested that these reserves cannot serve as sustainability models due to the lack of management plans and the vague fishery management measures adopted so far.…”

Section: Societal Responses To Mangrove Degradationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neotropical mangroves: Conservation and sustainable use in a scenario of global climate change

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2019

Aquatic Conservation

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This study assesses the evolution of major anthropogenic drivers of environmental impacts on Neotropical mangroves, the changes in the environmental pressures acting upon them, and the respective societal responses during the past 40 years. It reviews the impacts of new drivers, in particular those resulting from global climate change and the expansion in aquaculture and the effectiveness of local societal responses aimed at addressing them. Adaptation and mitigation actions are proposed to cope with the impacts and their socio‐economic consequences for Latin America and Caribbean mangroves. By comparing the situation in Latin America and the Caribbean with other regions, the knowledge gaps and priority research needs are discussed to support delineating a preliminary unifying framework to address the environmental pressures affecting mangroves. This scenario necessarily includes the interaction of climate change with human interventions and their effects on ecosystem goods and services, as well as their respective adaptation and management options. Results show that drivers of environmental impacts have changed in the past 40 years, reducing the effectiveness of some important societal responses towards conservation and sustainable management with a great potential to increase rates of mangrove deforestation and conversion to human uses. Although efforts in conservation and restoration have contributed to decreasing pressure on these ecosystems, the coupling of old drivers, such as damming, with climate change, and the appearance of new drivers in the region, such as shrimp aquaculture, may eclipse the gains made through these conservation efforts. Despite the negative trend, we discuss some successful efforts to curb negative impacts of human activities on mangroves. We also recommend regional assessments based on primary sources in the representative mangrove‐bearing countries throughout the continent to allow the upscaling of their experiences towards a regional response to the challenges facing Neotropical mangrove conservation and sustainable use.

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Section: Societal Responses To Mangrove Degradationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neotropical mangroves: Conservation and sustainable use in a scenario of global climate change

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2019

Aquatic Conservation

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“…Conservation of forest ecosystems at local levels strengthen resource allocation, which also contribute to regional and global scale conservation (Aheto et al 2016). Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh is now extensively degraded and poorly stocked.…”

Section: Sustainable Forest Management Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Participation of key stakeholders: It involves local communities, forest officials, governmental agencies, researchers, national and international experts and organizations, donor agencies, policy makers, and participation and empowerment of women groups. Local people are the main and key stakeholders (Aheto et al 2016), so they should be included in forest management plan. ii.…”

Section: Sustainable Forest Management Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They are renowned for their floral and faunal diversity (Iftekhar and Takama 2008), with some particular adaptive capacities to the coastal environment i.e., coastal tides, salinity, siltation and sedimentation (Paul et al 2017). Mangroves have great role in countries national economy by their natural productivity and variety of products and services, in the form of renewable resources (Aheto et al 2016). The economic potential of mangroves depends on three key sources; forest products, fisheries, and ecotourism (Paul et al 2017).…”

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Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh: causes of degradation and sustainable management options

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Bhuiyan

2018

Environmental Sustainability

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Sundarbans are highly productive mangrove wetland ecosystems, contributing several social, financial and environmental benefits. The forests have a great role in the countries national economy, and provides livelihood for the local people through fishing, tourism, wood and non-wood products. But despite several laws, policies and management plans, the forest is now showing clear signs of degradation. The aim of this study is to explore the major causes of degradation of Sundarbans mangrove forest in Bangladesh and to propose a management approach for its sustenance. It was found that, biodiversity and ecosystem of the Sundarbans is threatened due to several natural and human induced pressures, including overexploitation of forest resources, changes in coastal land use, pollution from industrial and agricultural sources, oil spillage, upstream water flow reduction, increased salinity level, disease outbreaks, fire occurrence, climate change, rise in sea level, natural disasters, lack of knowledge about forest conservation, uncontrolled tourism, inadequate planning and management, and increase in man-animal conflicts. In this background, an integrated approach is proposed, by refining the existing management and combining updated information through supplementary scientific studies and expeditions on mangrove forests. Proper implementation of the proposed resilient strategies i.e., incorporate all stakeholders to protect the forest, awareness programs, reduced forest dependency of local people, strengthen monitoring, ecological restoration, implementation of legal bindings, disaster management and adequate research and planning can be helpful for sustainable management of Sundarbans and similar mangrove forests around the world.

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“…The total protected extension of Brazilian mangroves kept increasing in recent years: since 2014, the country holds the largest extent of protected mangrove in the world: 322 thousand hectares inside 11 "extractive reserves"-a sustainable-use category (Plataforma Brasil, 2015). Similar protected area models have been shown to offer good conservation results elsewhere (Aheto et al, 2016). In Brazil, however, these reserves have not yet been systematically assessed.…”

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Systematic Planning and Ecosystem-Based Management as Strategies to Reconcile Mangrove Conservation with Resource Use

2017

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About 120 million people worldwide live within 10 km of large mangrove forests, and many of them directly depend on the goods and services provided by these ecosystems. However, it remains unclear how to synchronize ecological definitions and legal conservation strategies regarding mangroves, especially in developing countries, such as Brazil. The influence of human populations' socio-economic context in mangrove conservation policies, as well associated challenges in incorporating this influence, are underestimated or, often, largely ignored. Considering the recent threats emerging from changes in legislation and the lack of spatial and social-ecological integrated data to plan mangrove conservation in Brazil, this paper aims to answer the following questions: (1) What suitable measures could managers and other decision makers adopt for efficient mangrove conservation planning?; (2) What are the site-specific, social-ecological aspects that need to be taken into account when deciding on conservation and management strategies?; and (3) How could science contribute to the development of these measures? In order to achieve an ecosystem-based management approach, mangrove ecosystems should not be divided into sub-systems, but instead treated as an integrated system. Furthermore, interconnections with other coastal ecosystems must be assessed and taken into account. This is crucial for effective systematic conservation planning. Also, most of the particular social-ecological aspects in the different types of mangrove ecosystems along the Brazilian coast, and how those differences might be considered while planning for conservation, remain poorly understood. Based on similar drivers of change, geological features, and likely impacts of climate change, a macro-unit approach is proposed to group mangrove systems along the Brazilian coast and guide national policies. This paper draws parallels with management approaches worldwide to find common points and hence lessons to be applied in other regional realms. It considers the issues of legal vulnerability and needs for social-ecological data on mangroves, contributing toward systematic conservation planning and ecosystem-based management for these ecosystems.

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Community-based mangrove forest management: Implications for local livelihoods and coastal resource conservation along the Volta estuary catchment area of Ghana

Cited by 97 publications

References 21 publications

Neotropical mangroves: Conservation and sustainable use in a scenario of global climate change

Neotropical mangroves: Conservation and sustainable use in a scenario of global climate change

Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh: causes of degradation and sustainable management options

Systematic Planning and Ecosystem-Based Management as Strategies to Reconcile Mangrove Conservation with Resource Use

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