Mapping Human and Social Dimensions of Conservation Opportunity for the Scheduling of Conservation Action on Private Land

Knight, Andrew T.; Cowling, Richard M.; Difford, Mark; Campbell, Bruce M.

doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01494.x

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“…Effective PLC programs cater for the multiple, diverse motivations held by individuals and groups of landholders across a landscape , Knight et al 2010, Armsworth et al 2012). However, programs often must continue to incentivize landholders postenrolment to ensure they remain in a program, manage their property for biodiversity gains, and comply with agreed management practices (Sorice et al 2013).…”

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Locating financial incentives among diverse motivations for long-term private land conservation

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ABSTRACT. A variety of policy instruments are used to promote the conservation of biodiversity on private land. These instruments are often employed in unison to encourage land stewardship beneficial for biodiversity across a broad range of program types, but questions remain about which instruments are the appropriate tools when seeking long-term change to land-management practice. Drawing on three case studies, two in Australia and one in South Africa, spanning various program types-a biodiverse carbon planting scheme, a covenanting program, and a voluntary stewardship program-we investigate the importance of financial incentives and other mechanisms from the landholder's perspective. From participant interviews we find that landholders have preconceived notions of stewardship ethics. Motivations to enroll into a private land conservation program are not necessarily what drives ongoing participation, and continued delivery of multiple mechanisms will likely ensure long-term landholder engagement. Financial incentives are beneficial in lowering uptake costs to landholders but building landholder capacity, management assistance, linking participants to a network of conservation landholders, and recognition of conservation efforts may be more successful in fostering long-term biodiversity stewardship. Furthermore, we argue that diverse, multiple instrument approaches are needed to provide the flexibility required for dynamic, adaptive policy responses. We raise a number of key considerations for conservation organizations regarding the appropriate mix of financial and nonfinancial components of their programs to address long-term conservation objectives.

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“…Sustaining landholder involvement necessitates continued behavioral reinforcement (Stern 2006 (Knight et al 2010).…”

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Torabi³

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“…The challenge is to convince landowners and institutions that a public good such as biodiversity needs private land for its conservation. At the same time it is important to resolve the gap between conservation priority (determined based on biological and ecological knowledge) and conservation opportunity (the capability and willingness of people or a community to participate in conservation actions), as defined by Knight et al (2010) and Knight and Cowling (2007).The conventional top-down model of governance used in protected areas is unlikely to work on private land conservation due to the nature of ownership and the lack of implementation or monitoring (Kamal et al 2014;Knight et al 2010). Instead, it is crucial for managers of private land under conservation to strive for a delicate balance between conservation and regulation, as site selection and management actions will influence landowners' perception of this strategy and in turn affect its acceptance and efficiency.…”

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Challenges and opportunities in biodiversity conservation on private land: an institutional perspective from Central Europe and North America

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Private land is gradually emerging as a global biodiversity conservation strategy for its potential to complement the existing protected area model in its attempt to halt the global biodiversity loss. However, involving private lands in conserving a public good face continuous challenges. While examining landowners' motivations for conserving their land is imperative to its success, it is equally important to assess how other stakeholder groups perceive private land conservation. In order to capture the diversity and contrasts in implementing private land conservation, this research focuses on investigating the managerial perspectives on the status of private land conservation in two countries: USA and Poland. The paper presents the results of twenty five in-depth interviews that were conducted in the two countries. The US context, with a longer history and experience, captured complex interactions and factors that influence private land conservation, including role of conservation policies, civic sector organizations, stakeholder collaboration, technical and financial support, and nonmonetary motivations of landowners. The Polish context however, was limited to the regulatory model and as such did not differentiate private land conservation from traditional protected areas. Additionally, the lack of voluntary initiatives along with adequate policies and lack of awareness on private land conservation at a national and local level contributed to limited scope and understanding on the subject. The two case studies highlight the context dependency of such a strategy and bring to focus some of the factors that should be addressed while adopting conservation on private land as a biodiversity conservation strategy.

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“…La integración de aspectos ecológicos y sociales es fundamental en la implementación de cualquier estrategia de conservación (Mascia et al 2003;Knight et al 2010;Ardoin y Heimlich 2013). Diversos trabajos argumentan que las estrategias sociales que se enfocan en promover la conexión de las personas con la naturaleza, construir conocimiento y promover el cuidado del ambiente, pueden y deben jugar un papel central en los programas de conservación (Jacobson y McDuff 1998;Mascia et al 2003).…”

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Conservación de murciélagos nectarívoros (Phyllostomidae: Glossophagini) en riesgo en Coahuila y Nuevo León

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Mapping Human and Social Dimensions of Conservation Opportunity for the Scheduling of Conservation Action on Private Land

Abstract: Spatial prioritization techniques are applied in conservation-planning initiatives to allocate conservation resources. Although typically they are based on ecological data (e.g., species, habitats, ecological processes)

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Locating financial incentives among diverse motivations for long-term private land conservation

Locating financial incentives among diverse motivations for long-term private land conservation

Challenges and opportunities in biodiversity conservation on private land: an institutional perspective from Central Europe and North America

Conservación de murciélagos nectarívoros (Phyllostomidae: Glossophagini) en riesgo en Coahuila y Nuevo León

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