Conservation and the Social Sciences

Mascia, Michael B.; Brosius, J. Peter; Dobson, Tracy; Forbes, Bruce C.; Horowitz, Leah S.; McKean, Margaret A.; Turner, Nancy J.

doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01738.x

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“…To understand the underlying motives behind WTP for biodiversity conservation, contingent-valuation studies should be improved through the incorporation of other scientific disciplines, such as environmental psychology or human ecology. Therefore, conservation decision-making processes call for interdisciplinary knowledge in which conservation biologists and economists collaborate with anthropologists and psychologists (Mascia et al 2003;Saunders et al 2006). Implementing contingent valuation for biodiversity is a difficult task because the public has a low level of understanding of what biodiversity is and why it matters (Christie et al 2006).…”

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“…Social sciences need to be incorporated into conservation science and practice because biodiversity conservation is as much about people as it is about other species (Mascia et al 2003). For instance, environmental economics can inform conservation biologists and policy makers about why species are endangered, the opportunity costs of protection activities, and the economic incentives for conservation (Shogren et al 1999).…”

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Economic Valuation of Biodiversity Conservation: the Meaning of Numbers

Martín‐López

Montes

Benayas

2008

Conservation Biology

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Recognition of the need to include economic criteria in the conservation policy decision-making process has encouraged the use of economic-valuation techniques. Nevertheless, whether it is possible to accurately assign economic values to biodiversity and if so what these valuesPalabras Clave: actitudes hacia los animales, conservación de la biodiversidad, meta análisis, política de conservación, valoración económica de la biodiversidad, disposición a pagar

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Economic Valuation of Biodiversity Conservation: the Meaning of Numbers

Martín‐López

Montes

Benayas

2008

Conservation Biology

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“…In addition, backyard biodiversity emphasizes the importance of local-scale grassroots conservation efforts and their leadership in ultimately determining the priorities and effectiveness of biodiversity conservation efforts (Schwartz et al 2002;Mascia et al 2003;Berkes 2004). This concept also recognizes the diversity of organisms inhabiting the spatial scales encompassed by people's private properties, neighborhoods, and local municipalities (i.e., villages, cities).…”

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Biodiversity loss and the taxonomic bottleneck: emerging biodiversity science

Kim¹,

Byrne²

2006

Ecological Research

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Human domination of the Earth has resulted in dramatic changes to global and local patterns of biodiversity. Biodiversity is critical to human sustainability because it drives the ecosystem services that provide the core of our life-support system. As we, the human species, are the primary factor leading to the decline in biodiversity, we need detailed information about the biodiversity and species composition of specific locations in order to understand how different species contribute to ecosystem services and how humans can sustainably conserve and manage biodiversity. Taxonomy and ecology, two fundamental sciences that generate the knowledge about biodiversity, are associated with a number of limitations that prevent them from providing the information needed to fully understand the relevance of biodiversity in its entirety for human sustainability: (1) biodiversity conservation strategies that tend to be overly focused on research and policy on a global scale with little impact on local biodiversity; (2) the small knowledge base of extant global biodiversity; (3) a lack of much-needed site-specific data on the species composition of communities in human-dominated landscapes, which hinders ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation; (4) biodiversity studies with a lack of taxonomic precision; (5) a lack of taxonomic expertise and trained taxonomists; (6) a taxonomic bottleneck in biodiversity inventory and assessment; and (7) neglect of taxonomic resources and a lack of taxonomic service infrastructure for biodiversity science. These limitations are directly related to contemporary trends in research, conservation strategies, environmental stewardship, environmental education, sustainable development, and local site-specific conservation. Today's biological knowledge is built on the known global biodiversity, which represents barely 20% of what is currently extant (commonly accepted estimate of 10 million species) on planet Earth. Much remains unexplored and unknown, particularly in hotspots regions of Africa, South Eastern Asia, and South and Central America, including many developing or underdeveloped countries, where localized biodiversity is scarcely studied or described. ''Backyard biodiversity'', defined as local biodiversity near human habitation, refers to the natural resources and capital for ecosystem services at the grassroots level, which urgently needs to be explored, documented, and conserved as it is the backbone of sustainable economic development in these countries. Beginning with early identification and documentation of local flora and fauna, taxonomy has documented global biodiversity and natural history based on the collection of ''backyard biodiversity'' specimens worldwide. However, this branch of science suffered a continuous decline in the latter half of the twentieth century, and has now reached a point of potential demise. At present there are very few professional taxonomists and trained local parataxonomists worldwide, while the need for, and demands on, taxonomi...

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“…These recent trends in hunting indicate how socioeconomic and institutional forces, biological processes, and management systems are interrelated. The importance of interdisciplinary collaboration to deal with many of the problems in conservation and environmental management has been suggested among others by Milner-Gulland and Mace (1998), Mascia et al (2003), Lawton (2007) and Cooke et al (2009). Current studies on factors affecting big game trends have mostly emphasized the impact of ecological supply variables (Acevedo et al, 2011;Delibes-Mateos et al, 2009;Gortázar et al, 2006;Vargas et al, 2007).…”

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Trends in hunters, hunting grounds and big game harvest in Spain

Herruzo

Martínez‐Jauregui

2013

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Aim of study: Game species are considered a scarce natural resource and therefore they are subject to economic analysis. Current studies on factors affecting big game trends have mostly emphasized the impact of ecological supply variables. This study intends to expand this analysis by considering two important supply and demand economic parameters.Area of study: We use big game hunting in Spain from 1972 until 2007 as a case study since it has an important role in the European hunting activity.Material and methods: Different linear models were fitted to explain big game harvests as a function of two parameters not previously used: hunting grounds areas and big game firearm hunting licenses.Main results: Our main results show that up to 1989 the decrease in the area of open access territories significantly explains the increase in big game harvests, and that afterwards, once the hunting property rights were strengthen in most of the Spanish territory, the number of big game firearm licenses best explain big game harvests increments.Research highlights: This work shows an upward trend in Spanish harvests of big game, which can be attributed in part to (1) a shift to the right of big game demand, measured by an increase in big game firearm licenses, and (2) a change in the nature of big game supply (from a backward to an ordinary upward supply curve) due to the strengthening of hunting property rights of Spanish hunting grounds.

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Conservation and the Social Sciences

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Economic Valuation of Biodiversity Conservation: the Meaning of Numbers

Economic Valuation of Biodiversity Conservation: the Meaning of Numbers

Biodiversity loss and the taxonomic bottleneck: emerging biodiversity science

Trends in hunters, hunting grounds and big game harvest in Spain

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