Using Participatory Risk Mapping (PRM) to Identify and Understand People's Perceptions of Crop Loss to Animals in Uganda

Webber, Amanda D.; Hill, Catherine M.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0102912

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“…Our results concur with research near Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, where human disease, drought, and conservation were identified as risks, and respondents were particularly concerned that conservation policies might limit land use or confiscate land for park expansion (Baird et al 2009). Quinn et al (2003) found disease and water availability to be two of the most important risks in semi-arid villages in central and northeast Tanzania, while Webber and Hill (2014) found high crop-raiding severity in communities near Budongo Forest Reserve, adjacent to MFNP.…”

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Perceptions of risk in communities near parks in an African biodiversity hotspot

Hartter

Dowhaniuk

MacKenzie

et al. 2016

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Understanding conservation and livelihood threats in park landscapes is important to informing conservation policy. To identify threats, we examined perceived risks of residents living near three national parks in Uganda. We used cross-sectional household data to document, rank, and measure severity of perceived risks. Three risk categories, grouped into protected area, climate, and health, were cited by 80 % of respondents and received the highest severity scores. Elevation, proximity to the park, local forest loss, recent population change, and measures of poverty were the most important variables in predicting whether or not an individual identified these risks as the most or second most severe risk. Health issues were cited throughout the landscape, while problems attributed to climate (mainly insufficient rainfall) were reported to be most severe farther from the park. Increased population density was associated with increased perceived risk of health challenges, but decreased perceived risks attributed to the park and climate. Participatory risk mapping provides the opportunity to make standardized comparisons across sites, to help identify commonalities and differences, as a first step to examining the degree to which conservation management might address some of these local challenges and where mitigation techniques might be transferable between different sites or conflict scenarios.

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Perceptions of risk in communities near parks in an African biodiversity hotspot

Hartter

Dowhaniuk

MacKenzie

et al. 2016

Ambio

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“…This indicates that simply quantifying losses does not account for the complicated relationships that people hold towards perceived risk factors (Webber & Hill, 2014). The validity of the conclusions in this research should therefore not be affected by the lack of ground-truthing -although there is still value in understanding the difference between perception and reality of wildlife damage (Webber & Hill, 2014).…”

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“…worker job satisfaction or worker salary) in common throughout depredation hotspots, it is often perceived damage that is the strongest driver of attitudes and behaviour rather than the real loss (Marker et al, 2003;Mishra, 1997). This indicates that simply quantifying losses does not account for the complicated relationships that people hold towards perceived risk factors (Webber & Hill, 2014). The validity of the conclusions in this research should therefore not be affected by the lack of ground-truthing -although there is still value in understanding the difference between perception and reality of wildlife damage (Webber & Hill, 2014).…”

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Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

Rust¹

2018

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Many carnivore populations were in decline throughout much of the 20 th century, but due to recent conservation policies, their numbers are stabilising or even increasing in some areas of the world. This, compounded with human population growth, has caused increased livestock depredation by carnivores, which threatens farmer livelihoods, particularly those in developing countries such as Namibia. How to resolve this so-called "conflict" between carnivores and livestock farmers remains challenging, in part because some mitigation strategies have proven somewhat ineffective or unacceptable. By using a case-study approach on the commercial farmlands of northcentral Namibia, I aimed to understand the complexity of the human dimensions affecting coexistence between carnivores and people in an unprotected working landscape. Specifically, my objectives were to 1) develop a participatory decisionmaking exercise to analyse the views of stakeholders on how they would like carnivores to be managed in unprotected lands, 2) understand how the media framed financial incentives to improve human-carnivore coexistence, and 3) determine if there were any underlying social, economic or political causes of negative human-carnivore interactions on commercial livestock farms.To answer objective 1, I developed a new decision-making exercise that combined Q-methodology and the Delphi technique to determine whether a diverse group of stakeholders could agree on how to manage carnivores on commercial farmland. A strong agreement was reached by participants: providing conservation education and training on livestock husbandry were acceptable and effective ways to improve coexistence with carnivores. This new also method highlighted areas of disagreement between stakeholders and showed that there were two different narratives on how carnivores should be managed. This method could be used by policy makers to help with participatory decision-making for resolving other conservation conflicts.To answer objective 2, I undertook content analysis of national newspapers to determine how the media framed articles on financial incentives to mitigate this conservation conflict. The most common (30%) financial incentive discussed was compensation -many (61%) of these articles framed compensation positively. Niki Rust © 2015However, upon categorising these articles into those where respondents were enrolled in compensation schemes compared with those who were not, a clear pattern emerged: articles were more likely (89%) to be framed ambivalently or negatively when respondents had experience of this financial incentive compared with respondents that did not. These results can help conservationists plan more effective communication interventions and anticipate issues that can affect the success of mitigation strategies.To answer objective 3, I undertook eight months of participant observation on livestock farms and interviewed 69 respondents and found that reported livestock depredation was associated with increased instances of poaching of wildl...

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“…Finally, the different orders were clustered as first, second, and third order vulnerabilities of climate change impacts. The authors also used risk and resource mapping (RRM) to collect information on land, water, crops and other local resources (resource mapping) and on climatic risks on significant local resources (risk mapping) [70,72]. RRM was carried out with the same group of participants.…”

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Climate Change Impacts in Agricultural Communities in Rural Areas of Coastal Bangladesh: A Tale of Many Stories

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This paper identifies and analyses climate change impacts, their cascading consequences and the livelihood implications of these impacts on smallholder agricultural communities of coastal Bangladesh. Six physically and socio-economically vulnerable communities of south-western coastal regions were studied. Primary data was collected through focus group discussions, a seasonal calendar, and historical transect analysis. Three orders of impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers are identified and described. The first order impacts involve increasing erosion of the capacity of local communities to mitigate vulnerability to climate change impacts. This situation led to the second order impacts, which significantly transformed the agricultural landscape and production patterns. The cumulative effects of the first and second order impacts sparked the third order impacts in the form of worsening community livelihood assets and conditions. The findings of this paper can contribute to the formulation of sustainable adaptation policies and programs to manage the vulnerability of local communities to climate change impacts in the country effectively. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 8438

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Using Participatory Risk Mapping (PRM) to Identify and Understand People's Perceptions of Crop Loss to Animals in Uganda

Cited by 44 publications

References 53 publications

Perceptions of risk in communities near parks in an African biodiversity hotspot

Perceptions of risk in communities near parks in an African biodiversity hotspot

Understanding the human dimensions of coexistence between carnivores and people: A case study in Namibia

Climate Change Impacts in Agricultural Communities in Rural Areas of Coastal Bangladesh: A Tale of Many Stories

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