Assessing natural resource management through integrated environmental and social-economic accounting

Morton, Huon; Winter, Etti; Grote, Ulrike

doi:10.1177/1070496516664385

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“…Our study has shown that relative to Zambians in the south western corner of Zambia, Namibian conservancy members' tolerance and perceptions of intangible benefits toward some wildlife species are more positive—most likely as a result of the economic approach taken in Namibia's CBNRM program. While Namibia's CBNRM program is not perfect, (Khumalo & Yung, 2015; Koot, 2019; Lubilo & Hebinck, 2019; Morton, Winter, & Grote, 2016; Nuulimba & Taylor, 2015; Schnegg & Kiaka, 2018), relative to Zambia, Namibians in the Zambezi region seem to be better off both in terms of monetary and intangible benefits from wildlife. Our results should however be considered of an exploratory nature as we acknowledge that due to multiple testing, there is a risk of false findings.…”

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Does money “buy” tolerance toward damage‐causing wildlife?

Kansky

Kidd

Fischer

2020

Conservat Sci and Prac

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The Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area supports largescale migrations of wildlife that occur in a mixed agri-conservation landscape in five Southern African countries. Human-Wildlife Conflict is a key challenge and understanding the drivers of communities' willingness to coexist with wildlife is thus critical. Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) is a widely used economic approach to foster human-wildlife coexistence with the assumption that monetary benefits can "buy" tolerance by offsetting the disservices of living with wildlife. We tested this assumption and hypothesized that Namibians would be more tolerant towards wildlife than Zambians because they received higher monetary benefits from wildlife. We used the Wildlife Tolerance Model (WTM) as the framework to define tolerance and identify tolerance drivers. We found Namibians tolerance was higher for lion, elephant and hyena but not for kudu and baboon. After controlling for confounding variables of the WTM that could potentially explain differences in tolerance, contrary to expectation, the monetary benefits did not account for higher Namibian tolerance. Instead, only nonmonetary benefits explained the higher tolerance. We used crowding theory to explain this finding, proposing that CBNRM in Namibia and the monetary benefits from the program "crowd in" intrinsic motivation to appreciate and tolerate wildlife.

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Does money “buy” tolerance toward damage‐causing wildlife?

Kansky

Kidd

Fischer

2020

Conservat Sci and Prac

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“…The disaster risk reduction of crop damage also depends on the ability of the subsistence farmers and stakeholders to deal with hazardous conditions such as poverty, individually and collectively [91,92]. Although farmer compensation schemes against elephant crop damage can significantly socially and economically militate against crop losses and even help attract local support for wildlife conservation [76], they require good planning, implementation and monitoring that overcome the potential myriad of challenges associated with their application at the farm level [14,93].…”

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Elephant Crop Damage: Subsistence Farmers’ Social Vulnerability, Livelihood Sustainability and Elephant Conservation

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African elephants (Loxodonta africana) induce considerable crop damage risks, shocks and stresses on subsistence farmers at the wildlife-agriculture interface. In this study, we explored the social dimensions of human-elephant interactions in the wildlife-agrarian landscape. The study aimed at unraveling the associated hazardous conditions and nature of the subsistence farmers’ social vulnerability and practices with respect to elephant crop damage, subsistence farmers’ livelihoods, and elephant conservation. Applying qualitative thematic content analysis, the sustainable livelihood framework (SLF) and additive generalized linear models (GLMs), this study revealed that the status of relational social capital influences human-elephant conflict (HEC) management and subsistence farmers’ responses, regardless of the farmers’ social learning and environmental values about the social-ecological system. The strengthening of multiple local stakeholder participation, institutional governance and access to livelihoods assets are needed for human food security and elephant conservation. Adoption of more effective nuanced crop protection counter-measures against elephants at farm level is urgently needed.

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“…Community-based conservation is an evolving concept, but for the purpose of this study, we define CBC broadly as an institution that simultaneously enhances human development-especially for people living directly with nature-and conserves biodiversity. Community-based conservation institutions offer incentives to sustainably manage natural resources and have some measure of devolution of resource management responsibilities (Berkes 2007, Plummer and Armitage 2007, Morton et al 2016. Local land users are thought to be ideally central to crafting and implementing conservation and development initiatives in a CBC model (Agrawal 2003, Armitage 2005, Black and Cobbinah 2017.…”

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African community-based conservation: a systematic review of social and ecological outcomes

Galvin¹,

Beeton²,

Luizza³

2018

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Community-based conservation (CBC) institutions are widely regarded as transformative bodies that benefit social and ecological processes in coupled social-ecological systems. Yet, limited empirical evidence for this claim exists, especially on the African continent where community-based conservancies (CBCs) are being rapidly adopted in diverse institutional forms across multiple countries. We provide the first large-scale systematic review of CBC outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa. We review the literature on CBCs and develop a conceptual model that illustrates the nested scales of interaction in which CBCs are embedded, the institutional processes ("conditions") reported as important for success, and the outcomes of CBCs on social and ecological systems. The mixed-method approach consists of inductive/deductive textual analysis of cases, geospatial visualization, descriptive statistics, and correlational analysis. Results indicate that more often than not, establishment of CBCs in Africa has led to negative or a mixture of positive and negative social outcomes, whereas ecological outcomes have been largely positive. The research conducted on CBC institutions has overwhelmingly focused on social outcomes, using qualitative methods. Monetary and nonmonetary incentives seem to be important but not sufficient on their own for positive outcomes. Devolution of rights to the local community is significantly associated with CBC outcomes but was not present in many cases, despite this feature being a hallmark of CBCs. A number of conditions were not reported in the cases reviewed, including leadership, social learning, consideration of cultural worldviews, and diverse partnerships. We provide indepth examples of the types and diversity of outcomes and contexts underpinning the presence or absence of societal processes, highlight important gaps in the existing research, and offer guidelines for research and evaluation moving forward.

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Assessing natural resource management through integrated environmental and social-economic accounting

Cited by 16 publications

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Does money “buy” tolerance toward damage‐causing wildlife?

Does money “buy” tolerance toward damage‐causing wildlife?

Elephant Crop Damage: Subsistence Farmers’ Social Vulnerability, Livelihood Sustainability and Elephant Conservation

African community-based conservation: a systematic review of social and ecological outcomes

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