Moving Toward Spatial Solutions in Marine Conservation with Indigenous Communities

Ban, Natalie C.; Picard, Chris R.; Vincent, Amanda C. J.

doi:10.5751/es-02473-130132

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“…Area of a PA showed a negative, although again non-significant, relationship with compliance, possibly suggesting that the bigger the PA area the lower the compliance. For developing countries, due to limited financial resources, equipment, and staff, patrolling and enforcing policies for large PAs may often be difficult, which could explain this weak relationship , Gelcich et al 2005, Ban et al 2008). However, we could speculate that patrolling and management costs of such big areas can be reduced with local community collaboration, wherein locals could voluntarily act as local law enforcers, inhibiting and reducing outsiders' illegal activity in PAs , Aswani et al 2004, Pretty and Smith 2004, Ban et al 2009).…”

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“…According to Chape et al (2008), in 2005, the world reached a total of 144,296 protected sites, covering an area of 19,381,000 km², or 12.9% of the earth's land area. This is definitely an achievement, but establishment of PAs alone cannot safeguard perpetuation of biodiversity (Wilshusen et al 2002, Mascia 2003, Aswani and Weiant 2004, Pretty and Smith 2004, Hayes 2006, Ban et al 2008.…”

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Protected Areas and Local Communities: an Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies?

Andrade¹,

Rhodes²

2012

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ABSTRACT. Many protected areas (PAs) have followed the conventional and exclusionary approach applied at Yellowstone in 1872. As such, many parks have failed to fully integrate other important factors, such as social, cultural, and political issues. In some cases, this has triggered adverse social impacts on local communities, disrupting their traditional ways of living and limiting their control of and access to natural resources. Such an outcome can undermine protection policies through conflicts between park managers and local communities. The success of conservation strategies through protected areas may lie in the ability of managers to reconcile biodiversity conservation goals with social and economic issues and to promote greater compliance of local communities with PA conservation strategies. However, there are very few quantitative studies identifying what the key factors are that lead to better compliance with PA conservation policies. To address this issue, we conducted a meta-analysis of 55 published case studies from developing countries to determine whether the level of compliance of local communities with PA regulations was related to: (1) PA age, (2) PA area, (3) the existence of a buffer zone, (4) the level of protection as defined by IUCN categories, (5) gross domestic product per capita, (6) population density in the vicinity of PAs, and (7) the level of local community participation in PA management. We found that local community participation in the PA decision-making process was the only variable that was significantly related to the level of compliance with PA polices. In general, the higher the level of participation, the higher the level of compliance. This has important implications for PA management and suggests that greater inclusion of local communities in management should be a key strategy for ensuring the integrity of PAs.

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Protected Areas and Local Communities: an Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies?

Andrade¹,

Rhodes²

2012

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“…Ecologists and policy-makers increasingly recognize that community-based approaches and/or comanagement can achieve relevant, sustainable outcomes in resource management (Ban et al 2008, Ostrom 2009, Gutiérrez et al 2011, Leys and Vanclay 2011. This realization was derived in part because of the scale of community governance over socialecological systems.…”

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Toward increased engagement between academic and indigenous community partners in ecological research

Adams¹,

Carpenter²,

Housty³

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ABSTRACT. Ecological research, especially work related to conservation and resource management, increasingly involves social dimensions. Concurrently, social systems, composed of human communities that have direct cultural connections to local ecology and place, may draw upon environmental research as a component of knowledge. Such research can corroborate local and traditional ecological knowledge and empower its application. Indigenous communities and their interactions with and management of resources in their traditional territories can provide a model of such social-ecological systems. As decision-making agency is shifted increasingly to indigenous governments in Canada, abundant opportunities exist for applied ecological research at the community level. Despite this opportunity, however, current approaches by scholars to community engaged ecological research often lack a coherent framework that fosters a respectful relationship between research teams and communities. Crafted with input from applied scholars and leaders within indigenous communities in coastal British Columbia, we present here reflections on our process of academic-community engagement in three indigenous territories in coastal British Columbia, Canada. Recognizing that contexts differ among communities, we emerge with a generalizable framework to guide future efforts. Such an approach can yield effective research outcomes and emergent, reciprocal benefits such as trust, respect, and capacity among all, which help to maintain enduring relationships. Facing the present challenge of community engagement head-on by collaborative approaches can lead to effective knowledge production toward conservation, resource management, and scholarship.

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“…The next section introduces the methodology for the review, whilst the third explains the results structured around two guiding questions: (1) What is the role of traditional ecological knowledge in successful http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol18/iss4/art12/ conservation in self-regulated and comanaged communitybased conservation initiatives? and (2) How do traditional ecological knowledge-and potentially nontraditional ecological knowledge-related factors influence socialecological resilience in both types of initiatives?…”

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Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Implications for Social-Ecological Resilience

Ruíz-Mallén¹,

Corbera²

2013

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ABSTRACT. Our review highlights how traditional ecological knowledge influences people's adaptive capacity to socialecological change and identifies a set of mechanisms that contribute to such capacity in the context of community-based biodiversity conservation initiatives. Twenty-three publications, including twenty-nine case studies, were reviewed with the aim of investigating how local knowledge, community-based conservation, and resilience interrelate in social-ecological systems. We highlight that such relationships have not been systematically addressed in regions where a great number of community conservation initiatives are found; and we identify a set of factors that foster people's adaptive capacity to social-ecological change and a number of social processes that, in contrast, undermine such capacity and the overall resilience of the socialecological system. We suggest that there is a need to further investigate how climate variability and other events affect the joint evolution of conservation outcomes and traditional ecological knowledge, and there is a need to expand the current focus on social factors to explain changes in traditional ecological knowledge and adaptive capacity towards a broader approach that pays attention to ecosystem dynamics and environmental change.

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Moving Toward Spatial Solutions in Marine Conservation with Indigenous Communities

Cited by 39 publications

References 51 publications

Protected Areas and Local Communities: an Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies?

Protected Areas and Local Communities: an Inevitable Partnership toward Successful Conservation Strategies?

Toward increased engagement between academic and indigenous community partners in ecological research

Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Implications for Social-Ecological Resilience

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