People’s perceptions of protected areas across spatial scales

Allendorf, Teri D.; Radel, Volker; Keuler, Nicholas S.

doi:10.2305/iucn.ch.2019.parks-25-1tda.en

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“…This finding was in line with previous research that demonstrated a direct effect between young people's attitudes and intentions to adopt specific pro-environmental behaviours, such as green consumption [105], purchasing of pro-environmental products [13], pollution emissions reduction [39], the choice of transport mode [106], as well as conservation and recycling behaviours [88,107]. Regarding nature parks, our findings were consistent with recent studies [108,109] that highlighted the prevalence of positive attitudes. This can be explained by the fact that while protected areas may entail costs for young people, the numerous benefits they provide are often more widely perceived than the costs incurred.…”

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Young People and Nature: What Drives Underlying Behavioural Intentions towards Protected Areas Conservation?

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This paper investigates university students’ motivations in nature park conservation, an area that has received limited research attention compared to other pro-environmental behaviours. By formulating a set of research hypotheses, an extended version of the Theory of Planned Behaviour is employed to examine the determinants of university students’ intentions to engage in nature park conservation. Structural equation modelling is conducted using survey data collected from university students in the Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy. The results show that attitudes, perceived behavioural control, and personal moral norms directly and positively influence university students’ intentions to undertake nature park preservation actions. Subjective norms indirectly influence behavioural intentions through attitudes, perceived behavioural control, and personal moral norms. Moreover, the findings reveal that university students with nature-oriented altruistic values exhibit a higher propensity for nature park conservation compared to their more egoistic peers. These findings have important implications for park management institutions, suggesting the need to increase awareness among young people about their potential role in preserving the environmental quality of nature parks. Collaboration between universities and nature park institutions is also crucial in providing young individuals with the necessary skills to participate in decision-making processes aligned with the principles of sustainable development.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Young People and Nature: What Drives Underlying Behavioural Intentions towards Protected Areas Conservation?

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“…From the perspective of total effects, conservation costs had a significant negative impact on conservation willingness and behaviors. This conclusion is consistent with the findings of other scholars [46,59,60]. Most residents believed that conservation behaviors increased the economic cost of living without increasing economic benefits.…”

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Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Behaviors of Communities—Empirical Evidence from Tanzania

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Zhang

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Under the dual pressures of climate change and human activities, the restrictions imposed by conservation policies, along with the increasing overlap between wildlife protected areas (PAs) and community living areas, have intensified the contradictions and conflicts between PAs and surrounding communities. Effective governance of such conflicts is particularly crucial to reconciling the contradictions between conservation and development. This study takes the Mikumi–Selous region in Tanzania, Africa, as a case study. Through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, it explores the current state of conflicts between PAs and communities in the region and summarizes conflict governance measures. Moreover, this research focuses on identifying various factors that influence the conservation willingness and action of community residents, further validating the relationships between residents’ household characteristics, conservation costs and benefits, conservation cognition, willingness, and behaviors through empirical analysis methods. The results indicate that residents’ conservation cognition significantly positively impacts their conservation willingness and behaviors, while conservation willingness also positively affects their conservation behaviors. Additionally, it was found that conservation costs inhibit residents’ conservation willingness and behaviors. This study primarily explores, from a community governance perspective, the participation willingness and behaviors of core stakeholders in conflict governance, emphasizing the critical role of community involvement in achieving biodiversity conservation and coordinated community development and providing a new perspective for alleviating conservation and development issues.

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“…Wang's [50] survey of communities around the Qinling Nature Reserve in China found that crops in the community were often damaged by wild boars, hares and black bears, causing serious economic losses to farmers; By studying farmers' perceptions of cost-benefit in the neighborhood of seven national parks in the Indian and Nepalese regions, Karanth and Nepal [37] found that farmers' perceptions of benefits were insensitive, while perceptions of costs were very sensitive. Other scholars have shown that people who are victims of wildlife depredation or have limited access to forest resources may exhibit negative perceptions and attitudes towards nearby protected areas [51]. This is consistent with the findings of this study.…”

Section: Factors Affecting Community Participation In Protection Actionsupporting

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Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania

Ma,

Wu,

Zhang

et al. 2024

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Under the double pressure of climate change and human activities, the restrictions of conservation policies and the increasing area of overlap between wildlife conservation areas and community living areas have led to increase conflicts and contradictions between nature reserves and neighboring communities. Effective management of such conflicts is particularly important in order to achieve reconciliation of conservation and development. In this study, we take the Mikumi-Selous region in Tanzania, Africa as an example, and through questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews, we sort out the current situation of conflicts between nature reserves and communities in the region, as well as summarize the means of conflict governance. In addition, we focus on identifying the various factors affecting community residents' protection willingness and protection action, and further verify the relationships among residents' family characteristics, protection costs and revenue, protection cognition, willingness and action through empirical analysis methods. The results show that residents' protection cognition has a significant positive effect on their willingness to protect and their actions, meanwhile willingness to protect also positively affects residents' protection action. In addition, it was found that the protection cost inhibits residents' willingness and action. Our study focuses on the willingness to participate and action of core stakeholders towards conflict governance from the perspective of community governance, emphasizing the key role of community participation in achieving coordinated development of biodiversity conservation and community. It provides a new perspective for mitigating conservation and development issues.

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People’s perceptions of protected areas across spatial scales

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

Young People and Nature: What Drives Underlying Behavioural Intentions towards Protected Areas Conservation?

Young People and Nature: What Drives Underlying Behavioural Intentions towards Protected Areas Conservation?

Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Behaviors of Communities—Empirical Evidence from Tanzania

Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania

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