TRUE GRASP: Actors visualize and explore hidden limitations of an apparent win-win land management strategy in a MAB reserve

Braasch, Marco; Garcı́a-Barrios, Luis; Cortina-Villar, Sergio; Huber­-Sannwald, Elisabeth; Ramírez‐Marcial, Neptalí

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.03.022

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“…Similarly, the model can be used as a guide towards the development of support tools in participatory processes. This type of tools can help in the communication of knowledge, promote collective reflection and learning, and thus facilitate collective and adaptive decision-making for building sustainable management practices and effective governance (Braasch et al, 2018; D’Aquino et al, 2003).…”

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“…Each agent owns a set of variables that describe its state and a set of rules that determine its behaviour (Railsback and Grimm, 2012). Some examples of the use of ABM to study SESs include the study of ecological degradation scenarios on indigenous communities on Amazonian Guyana (Iwamura et al, 2014, 2016); the study of the impact of demographic human changes on the deforestation of the panda habitat on the Wolong reserve, China (An et al, 2005); and the study of the effect of different management strategies on “La Sepultura” reserve, Mexico (Braasch et al, 2018). Boolean Network Models (BNMs) are another type of dynamical models that provides a qualitative representation of a system.…”

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Multiple resource use strategies confer resilience to the socio-ecosystem in a protected area in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

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Garcı́a-Frapolli²,

Bonilla‐Moheno

et al. 2020

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2Natural Protected Areas (NPAs) are the main biodiversity conservation strategy in Mexico. 3 Generally, NPAs are established on the territories of indigenous and rural groups driving 4 important changes in their local resource management practices. In this paper we study the 5 case of Otoch Ma'ax Yetel Kooh, an NPA in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, that has been 6 studied in a multidisciplinary way for more than twenty years. This reserve and its buffer zone 7 is homeland to Yucatec Mayan communities that until recently used to manage their resources 8 following a multiple use strategy (MUS), which involves local agricultural practices and has been 9 proposed as resilience-enhancing mechanism. However, due to the restrictions imposed by the 10 decree of the reserve and the growth of tourism in the region, some of these communities have 11 started to abandon the MUS and specialize on tourism-related activities. We build a dynamical 12 computational model to explore the effects of some of these changes on the capacity of this NPA 13 to conserve the biodiversity and on the resilience of households to some frequent disturbances in 14 the region. The model, through the incorporation of agent-based and boolean network modelling, 15 explores the interaction between the forest, the monkey population and some productive activities 16 done by the households (milpa agriculture, ecotourism, agriculture, charcoal production). We 17 calibrated the model, explored its sensibility, compared it with empirical data and simulated 18 different management scenarios. Our results suggest that those management strategies that 19 1 do not exclude traditional activities may be compatible with conservation objectives, supporting 20 previous studies. Also, our results support the hypothesis that the MUS, throughout a balanced 21 integration of traditional and alternative activities, is a mechanism to enhance household resilience 22 in terms of income and food availability, as it reduces variability and increases the resistance to 23 some disturbances. Our study, in addition to highlighting the importance of local management 24 practices for resilience, also illustrates how computational modeling and systems perspective are 25 effective means of integrating and synthesizing information from different sources. 26 27 agent-based model, boolean network, resilience 28 1 INTRODUCTION Natural Protected Areas (NPAs) are one of the main conservation strategies in the world to face 29 biodiversity loss. In 2016, 14.7% of terrestrial and inland water ecosystems worldwide were under this 30 type of protection (UNEP -WCMC and IUCN, 2016). This strategy, however, has been highly controversial 31 for their impact on the rural communities that inhabit the protected territories, namely, on their forms of 32 resource management and appropriation (Durand and Jímenez, 2010; García-Frapolli, 2015). Nowadays, 33 conservation strategies in NPAs range from total exclusion of human activities, to the promotion of the 34 sustainable use of the territory (Br...

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Multiple resource use strategies confer resilience to the socio-ecosystem in a protected area in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Jácome

Garcı́a-Frapolli²,

Bonilla‐Moheno

et al. 2020

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“…PHS has received criticisms from critical scholars due to its narrow economic approach, top-down structure and lack of involvement of PHS program stakeholders in decision making [39,[48][49][50][51][52]. Critical scholars and advocates of alternatives to market-based conservation often call attention to the ways global environmental policies expand neoliberal programs and the commodification of nature [46,47].…”

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Uncovering Stakeholder Participation in Payment for Hydrological Services (PHS) Program Decision Making in Mexico and Colombia

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Payment for ecosystem services (PES) is a market-based policy approach intended to foster land use practices, such as forest conservation or restoration, that protect and improve the benefits from healthy, functioning ecosystems. While PES programs are used globally, they are an especially prominent environmental policy tool in Latin America, where the vast majority are payment for hydrological services (PHS) programs, which incentivize the conservation and restoration of ecosystems associated with water production and clean water for clearly defined water users. As a market mechanism, PHS approaches involve a transactional relationship between upstream and downstream water users who are connected by a shared watershed. While existing literature has highlighted the important role of non-state actors in natural resource management and program effectiveness, few studies have explored the role of stakeholder participation in the context of PHS programs. Building on the collaborative learning approach and the Trinity of Voice framework, we sought to understand how and to what extent PHS program stakeholders are engaged in PHS design, implementation, and evaluation. In this paper we explored (1) the modes of stakeholder engagement in PHS programs that program administrators use, and (2) the degree to which different modes of stakeholder participation allow PHS stakeholders to have decision power with which to influence PHS policy design and expected outcomes. To better understand the role of stakeholder participation, and the different ways participation occurs, we used a comparative multiple-case study analysis of three PHS program administration types (government, non-profit, and a mixed public–private organization) in Mexico and Colombia that have incorporated stakeholder engagement to achieve ecological and social goals. Our analysis draws on institutional interviews to investigate the modes of stakeholder engagement and understand the degree of decision space that is shared with other PHS stakeholders. Across all cases, we found that the trust between key actors and institutions is an essential but underappreciated aspect of successful collaboration within PHS initiatives. We conclude with recommendations for ways in which program administrators and governmental agencies can better understand and facilitate the development of trust in PHS design and implementation, and natural resources management more broadly.

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“…Furthermore, though abundant pine trees remained for future use, the sustainability of resin extraction was uncertain. Braasch et al (2017Braasch et al ( , 2018 questioned if sufficient tree recruitment could sustain long-term resin extraction in California, more importantly, they showed that multiple factors were interacting and affecting recruitment, including grasses, cattle, fire and incongruent stakeholder interventions. Still, pines were regenerating across the California landscape.…”

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Tapping into nature’s benefits: values, effort and the struggle to co-produce pine resin

Heinze

Kuyper

Barrios

et al. 2021

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The concept of ecosystem services (ES) and related conceptual frameworks like the cascade model, can be relevant to explore the ways through which people and nature are connected and how the benefits of nature, upon which people depend, are realised. An integrated cascade framework was used to study the ES pathway of pine resin, a traded forest product, in a rural mountain community in Mexico. We conducted mixed-methods research, combining participatory tools with measures of service capacity, resin yield, and key farmer endowments. Resin was co-produced by an intricate interaction between the human and natural components of the social-ecological system. Substantial human inputs and coordinated efforts were required to realise resin benefits, and people's appreciation and plural values emerged along the whole service pathway. Though there were stark differences in natural resource endowments, working farmers gained a high share of resin's income through labour, labour relations and social networks. But most social conflicts and struggles also occurred over labour relations and organisation, revealing power dynamics. Furthermore, external actors controlled different mechanisms of access, and exerted power over the community's ability to derive benefits from resin. In resin co-production, values connect people to the landscape, while labour and power mediate the access to nature's benefits.

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TRUE GRASP: Actors visualize and explore hidden limitations of an apparent win-win land management strategy in a MAB reserve

Cited by 17 publications

References 66 publications

Multiple resource use strategies confer resilience to the socio-ecosystem in a protected area in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Multiple resource use strategies confer resilience to the socio-ecosystem in a protected area in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Uncovering Stakeholder Participation in Payment for Hydrological Services (PHS) Program Decision Making in Mexico and Colombia

Tapping into nature’s benefits: values, effort and the struggle to co-produce pine resin

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