Factors Associated with Conservation Participation by Local Communities in Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project, Nepal

Paudyal, Ramesh; Thapa, Brijesh; Neupane, Suman Shree; Kc, Birendra

doi:10.3390/su10103488

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“…These Hill districts, including Kaski, Parbat, Syangja, and Tanahu, have higher development patterns [63] following Kathmandu valley and higher water productivity than other districts in the country [64]. Few clusters in the eastern Mountain region could be attributed to well-developed tourism infrastructure, which has high impacts on our CDRI variables [65,66]. Our study shows, in comparison to Aksha, Juran [52], that resilience and vulnerability are not opposing concepts to each other, but rather they do overlap to some extent [5,22].…”

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Benchmarking Community Disaster Resilience in Nepal

Aksha

Emrich

2020

IJERPH

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Building disaster resilience is a stated goal of disaster risk reduction programs. Recent research emphasizes a need for a greater understanding of community disaster response and recovery capacity so that communities can absorb shocks and withstand severe conditions and progress through the recovery period more efficiently. Nepal, which is prone to a multitude of hazards and having recently experienced a large earthquake in 2015, provides a unique opportunity for exploring disaster resilience in the developing world context. To date, no study investigating community disaster resilience across the entire country of Nepal exists. This study quantifies disaster resilience at Nepal’s village level, primarily using census data. Guided by the Disaster Resilience of Place (DROP) model, 22 variables were selected as indicators of social, economic, community, infrastructure, and environmental resilience. Community resilience was assessed for 3971 village development communities (VDCs) and municipalities while using a principal component analysis. Additionally, a cluster analysis was performed to distinguish spatial patterns of resilience. Analyses reveal differential community disaster resilience across the country. Communities in the capital city Kathmandu and in the western and far western Hill are relatively resilient. While the entire Tarai region, which holds the greatest proportion of Nepal’s population, exhibits relatively low levels of resilience when compared to the rest of the county. The results from this analysis provide empirical evidence with the potential to help decision-makers in the allocation of scarce resources to increase resilience at the local level.

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Benchmarking Community Disaster Resilience in Nepal

Aksha

Emrich

2020

IJERPH

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“…Most commonly, tourism development in PAs and NPs has been a robust tool in poverty reduction and local empowerment [38,39]. Relatedly, community involvement in the planning process is crucial to ensure the effectiveness of conservation initiatives, however, lack of local participation in the decision-making can lead to unsustainable consumption of natural resources and create conflict with management [25,30,40]. Furthermore, there is a growing issue associated with human-wildlife conflict, which can contribute to loss of habitat and result in fatalities in both animal and human populations [41,42].…”

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Stakeholder Perspectives Towards National Parks and Protected Areas in Saudi Arabia

Al-Tokhais

Thapa

2019

Sustainability

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There is a genuine need to examine stakeholders’ perception of biodiversity conservation and tourism development due to overlapping roles and conflicting priorities among key governmental agencies in Saudi Arabia. The need to understand the role of each stakeholder group will assist to support policy formulation and implementation, along with effective practices. Within this context, the purpose of this study was to examine stakeholder perspectives towards National Parks and Protected Areas in Saudi Arabia. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews from 11 stakeholders’ representative of public, private, and non-governmental organizations from the tourism and conservation community. Findings revealed four main themes—tourism development, management issues, development challenges, and policy concerns. In addition, multiple sub-themes within each were further categorized. Overall, findings highlight the need to form a foundation for sustainable tourism development that aims to conserve biodiversity and provide opportunities for local communities to ensure economic growth. Implications for development in National Parks and Protected Areas in Saudi Arabia are also noted.

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“…Poor households are usually high in resource dependency and more vulnerable to the costs of restriction from the PA (Rahman et al, 2017). Attitudinal studies additionally reported that communities will not be motivated enough to support conservation unless the benefits from the PA offset their costs (Coad et al, 2008;Nepal and Spiteri, 2011;Paudyal et al, 2018). A good example is the Koshi Tappu Wetland in Nepal, where the incentive program to harvest grass and thatch as livelihood support could not successfully integrate local communities because its benefits were too little when compared with the economic loss of resource restriction (Shrestha and Alavalapati, 2006).…”

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Community dependency and perceptions of a protected area in a threatened ecoregion of Myanmar

Htay¹,

̧skaft²

2020

Int. J. Biodivers. Conserv.

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Local communities living adjacent to protected areas (PA) play a vital role in biodiversity conservation. Understanding communities' use and perceptions of a PA will increase its conservation effectiveness through reducing anthropogenic pressures and improving park-people relationship. This study assessed local communities' dependency on the PA and perceptions of benefits and costs accrued from the PA. Using a distance-based stratified random sampling, a total of 230 households from 10 villages around the Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary (IWS), in Myanmar, were interviewed. Results showed that 51.3% of local households were dependent on the PA for household income generation and their dependency was determined by the landscape ecology of the residential place. Communities living close to the alluvial area relied the most on the PA due to their lack of permanent agricultural land. Results also showed that although people generated income from the PA, their appreciations of PA's benefits were not significant. However, communities' perceptions of the costs incurred from the PA varied significantly with their resource dependency level, distance from the PA, gender and ethnicity. To promote people's acceptance of the park, this study suggests that future PA management should focus on balancing benefits and costs of the most resource-dependent communities and conservation initiatives should be designed to be supplementary to local economic needs.

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Factors Associated with Conservation Participation by Local Communities in Gaurishankar Conservation Area Project, Nepal

Cited by 20 publications

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Benchmarking Community Disaster Resilience in Nepal

Benchmarking Community Disaster Resilience in Nepal

Stakeholder Perspectives Towards National Parks and Protected Areas in Saudi Arabia

Community dependency and perceptions of a protected area in a threatened ecoregion of Myanmar

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