Poverty and Conservation

Fisher, Robert J.; Maginnis, Stewart; Jackson, W. J.; Barrow, Edmund G. C.; Jeanrenaud, Sally

doi:10.2305/iucn.ch.2005.fr.ll.2.en

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“…Some studies use modelling to predict conditions of success (Skonhoft 1998;Skonhoft & Solstad 1998;Winkler 2011) or review the literature (Dickman et al 2011;Nkhata et al 2012), while others use empirical data. Most empirical studies examine impacts of revenue sharing on attitudes, behaviour or ecological variables (Infield 1988;Fiallo & Jacobson 1995;Gillingham & Lee 1999;Fisher et al 2005;Sekhar 2003;Groom & Harris 2008).…”

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Evaluating governance processes in the sharing of revenues from wildlife tourism and hunting in Ethiopia

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SUMMARYSharing of benefits from nature conservation is widely regarded as a way to enhance local residents’ support for protected areas. While in past years, the effectiveness of such approaches has been investigated in detail, governance processes underpinning benefit sharing have received less attention. This study examines the legislation and implementation practice of a revenue sharing scheme in southern Ethiopia, an area that is currently undergoing substantial social and environmental changes that threaten livelihoods and ecosystems. Based on qualitative data from interviews, group discussions and workshops, four main areas of shortcomings in the current legislation and implementation practice were identified: information provision; imbalanced roles and responsibilities; compromised accountability; and the lack of connection between revenue and wildlife tourism in the minds of the recipients. While some of these factors fostered misunderstandings and misuse of the monies, others meant that even where revenue was disbursed it was not connected with wildlife conservation, and thus did not have the intended effect. A comparison between these factors and those in the literature on the evaluation of comanagement arrangements revealed substantial overlap. Revenue sharing may be regarded as part of the comanagement of wildlife areas, but to be successful the management of these areas needs to be shared, and not just the financial benefits.

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Evaluating governance processes in the sharing of revenues from wildlife tourism and hunting in Ethiopia

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“…Effective evaluation of EE programs requires expertise from multiple fields. Training, collaboration and partnerships are necessary to build an appropriate knowledge base, to inform across natural and social dimensions for a more effective management of biodiversity recovery (Fisher et al, 2005;Moon & Blackman, 2014;Pooley, Mendelsohn, & Milner-Gulland, 2014). We coincide with Ibrahim et al…”

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“…This process also improved the status of EE at central level, serving as a benchmark to the rest of the management areas. We recommend this kind of analysis to other crosscutting issues such as the case of gender, to highlight the social dimension for conservation (Fisher et al, 2005).…”

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“…A transdisciplinary work, integrating nonacademic participants and academic researchers from unrelated disciplines for a common goal is needed to create new knowledge and theory in conservation science (Evely et al, 2010;Pooley et al, 2014). In addition, training, collaboration and partnerships are essential to build an appropriate knowledge base, working across natural and social dimensions for a more effective management of biodiversity recovery (Fisher et al, 2005;Moon & Blackman, 2014;Pooley et al, 2014).…”

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Integrating environmental education within the management model of National Parks of Colombia

Pujana¹

2016

Environmental Education Research

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Many experts consider environmental Education (EE) as an essential part in the management of protected areas, constituting a key element linking the biological and social dimensions for the conservation of ecosystems. Comparing with other kind of management strategies as biological monitoring and research, this field is still in its infancy, with many breaches in terms of systematization and assessment, a situation that difficult the integration and visibility of EA within management programs in the conservation of protected areas. Taking the Colombian National Natural Parks System as study area, a methodological route was developed to integrate local EE plans to the existing model of management planning. The study was developed through a participatory and inclusive research to respond to the specific conservation needs and goals. In first place, an internal EE diagnosis was developed, revealing that EE integration within the parks management structure was a first priority need, being a converging result on the two case studies on National Parks from the Pacific Coast of Colombia. The diagnosis also demonstrates that communication, participation, training and evaluation have to be reinforced, and linking the community and stakeholders involved in the park management was essential for the success of the EE program and management results. The proposed methodology route has been agreed upon by the National Parks staff from local, regional and national level, and incorporates advice and recommendations from different stakeholders, in order to better include the park users. Integrating EE into local action plans, will help us to advance toward sustainable management in marine and coastal protected areas elsewhere, taking into account not only the biological but also the social-cultural prism. Once the methodological route was agreed, the assessment was the remaining challenge. Nowadays, a new perspective to measure management effectiveness in protected areas goes through the inclusion of social data for decision-making. In this process, EE plays a key role in catalyzing biological and social fields in the management process, but there are scarce data about this relation. Following an institutional bottom-up perspective, an EE indicator set proposal was developed, being easy to use by practitioners and able to measure the response of the EE program in relation to the conservation objectives of protected areas management plan. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative techniques, the data gathering and indicator elaboration is divided in five stages: 1. An EE program survey at a national scale. 2. An interview phase to EE staff and NGOs. 3. EE

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“…It is only through concerted effort that innovations such as microfinance, sanduq, certification programs and alternative site management partnerships will reach their full potential. It is only through strong, international alliances that we will be able to effect strategic change by engaging the LDC levers of power at all scales (Fisher, Maginnis, Jackson, Barrow, & Jeanrenaud, 2005).…”

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Interrogating the equity principle: the rhetoric and reality of management planning for sustainable archaeological heritage tourism

Adams

2010

Journal of Heritage Tourism

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International archaeological heritage management in developing countries frequently entails planning for the development of sustainable tourism. A central tenet of sustainable tourism development is the equitable distribution of tourism benefits, a goal reflected in stakeholder consultations and management plan provisions for capacitybuilding among community members. The lack of longitudinal data demonstrating the meaningful participation of target populations in tourism development dividends, however, calls into question the efficacy of such measures. A review of tourism development outcomes at Machu Picchu, Angkor, Lijiang, Copan, Borobudur and Cape Coast Castle supports the contention that sustainable management planning has not produced equity. The problem lies not in specific planning provisions but in the lack of correspondence between developed country assumptions and developing country reality, which is characterized by structural and systemic power imbalances. The cases inform the creation of a generalizable model of tourism development inequality, the implications of which present philosophical, professional, methodological and conceptual challenges that must be overcome if the heritage management discipline is to deliver on the promise of sustainability.

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Poverty and Conservation

Cited by 38 publications

References 9 publications

Evaluating governance processes in the sharing of revenues from wildlife tourism and hunting in Ethiopia

Evaluating governance processes in the sharing of revenues from wildlife tourism and hunting in Ethiopia

Integrating environmental education within the management model of National Parks of Colombia

Interrogating the equity principle: the rhetoric and reality of management planning for sustainable archaeological heritage tourism

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