Effect of Protected Areas on Human Populations in the Context of Colombian Armed Conflict, 2005–2018

Rodríguez-Díaz, Roberto; Colino-Rabanal, Víctor J.; Gutierrez-López, Alejandra; Blanco-Villegas, María José

doi:10.3390/su13010146

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“…Caribbean geographies lie not just "in the shadow of the plantation" (132, p. 735) but along geopolitical faultlines, also generated by (in)accessibility. These include the guerrilla groups that coexist among traditional communities and rare species in protected areas and national parks (133).…”

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Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas

Zhang,

West,

Thakholi

et al. 2023

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Increased conservation action to protect more habitat and species is fueling a vigorous debate about the relative effectiveness of different sorts of protected areas. Here we review the literature that compares the effectiveness of protected areas managed by states and areas managed by Indigenous peoples and/or local communities. We argue that these can be hard comparisons to make. Robust comparative case studies are rare, and the epistemic communities producing them are fractured by language, discipline, and geography. Furthermore the distinction between these different forms of protection on the ground can be blurred. We also have to be careful about the value of this sort of comparison as the consequences of different forms of conservation for people and nonhuman nature are messy and diverse. Measures of effectiveness, moreover, focus on specific dimensions of conservation performance, which can omit other important dimensions. With these caveats, we report on findings observed by multiple study groups focusing on different regions and issues whose reports have been compiled into this article. There is a tendency in the data for community-based or co-managed governance arrangements to produce beneficial outcomes for people and nature. These arrangements are often accompanied by struggles between rural groups and powerful states. Findings are highly context specific and global generalizations have limited value.

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Section: Conservation Racial Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas

Zhang,

West,

Thakholi

et al. 2023

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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“…In their review, they found mostly positive perceived effects of European PAs on wellbeing and local livelihoods, except for MPAs. In other settings, different authors found varying outcomes of PAs using semi-experimental research designs: [26] stated no demographic or socioeconomic differences between municipalities inside and outside national parks in Colombia, especially after the armed conflict in the country had ended. In turn, [15] found that PAs in Thailand and Costa Rica had improved the economic conditions of local communities, whereas [19] found that communities living closer to a PA in Kenya had experienced greater economic losses than distant communities, although non-statistical differences in welfare or poverty between the two were found.…”

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“…Thus, normative restrictions are less likely to be felt in those sites compared to more stringently regulated reserves [41]. Nevertheless, the large numbers of variables that may affect social, economic and demographic variables at a local scale make it challenging to attribute socioeconomic outcomes exclusively to PAs, even if confounders are considered [26,42,43].…”

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Protected Areas and Rural Depopulation in Spain: A Multi-Stakeholder Perceptual Study

Rodríguez‐Rodríguez

Vargas

2022

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Protected areas (PAs) are thought by some to contribute to local wellbeing and socioeconomic development, whereas for others PAs remain a regulatory burden that hampers rural development. Here, we sought to ascertain the perceived causes of rural depopulation and the potential impact of four Natura 2000 sites on the wellbeing and depopulation figures of four protected rural municipalities in Spain that were selected as extreme case studies. We used phone surveys to elicit experts’ views (n = 19) on the topic and convened eight in-person workshops to garner local residents’ insights (n = 40) using structured questionnaires. We complemented perceived wellbeing data from PAs with surveys to residents in neighbouring unprotected municipalities (n = 28). Both experts and workshops’ attendees from protected municipalities overwhelmingly attributed depopulation figures to structural causes linked to transport accessibility, basic service provision and the existence of job opportunities, which they perceived to be unrelated to the PAs’ regulations or management. Local residents did generally not perceive any impact on their collective or individual wellbeing from those PAs, and most who did, expressed a negative impact chiefly due to socioeconomic restrictions. Four-fifths of the experts and half of the workshops’ attendees from protected municipalities, however, expressed that PAs’ administrations could help improve depopulation figures in their towns mainly through promoting tourism and greater compatibility of land uses, including housing and infrastructure development. While the assessed Natura 2000 sites certainly have scope for tourism promotion, their lenient legal regimes make it largely unfeasible to broaden land use compatibility without damaging protected features.

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Effect of Protected Areas on Human Populations in the Context of Colombian Armed Conflict, 2005–2018

Cited by 2 publications

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Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas

Governance and Conservation Effectiveness in Protected Areas and Indigenous and Locally Managed Areas

Protected Areas and Rural Depopulation in Spain: A Multi-Stakeholder Perceptual Study

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