Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods in Tropical Forest Landscapes

Protected areas within multifunctional landscapes: Squeezing out intermediate land use intensities in the tropics?

“…1 shows the location of each landscape and Table 1 summarizes each landscape. More detailed descriptions on the landscapes, the rationale of landscape selection and the drivers of land-use change and the dominant agroforestry systems can be found in Pfund et al (2008) and Pfund et al (2011), while land-use and land-cover changes are dealt with in Dewi and Ekadinata (2010). For each of the four landscapes, Table 2 presents the status and size of the PAs included in the analysis, the year of acquisition for the satellite imagery and also the year of establishment which was taken from the World Database on Protected Areas (IUCN and UNEP, 2010).…”

Principles for Fairness and Efficiency in Enhancing Environmental Services in Asia: Payments, Compensation, or Co-Investment?

“…The matrix of landscape mosaics surrounding protected areas does matter, however, for the biodiversity that can be conserved in the landscape as a whole (Michon et al 2007, Scherr and McNeeley 2007, Pfund et al 2008. Recent meta-analyses have confirmed a positive role for ecological corridors (Gilbert-Norton et al 2010), further challenging the concept of "indicator species" as proxies (Cushman et al 2010).…”

Linking livelihood and biodiversity conservation in protected areas: Community based tourism development perspective from developing country

“…It recognizes the trade-offs and linkages between human livelihood and biodiversity conservation. The biodiversity conservation and sustainable livelihood approach advocates that providing alternative sources of income to local communities through new livelihood opportunities or direct payments can alleviate poverty and improve environmental awareness and conservation attitudes, which may eventually change the unsustainable resource extraction behavior of local people and reduce human pressure on natural systems (Matiku et al, 2021;Niesenbaum, 2019;Wei et al, 2018;Roe et al, 2015;Redford et al, 2013;Pfund et al, 2008;Berkes, 2004). Where desired economic benefits are generated, they are often enjoyed by a few local elites and investors, whereas the grassroots of the community remain marginalized (Dangi and Petrick, 2021;Gohori and Van der Merwe, 2021;Spiteri and Nepal, 2006;Brown, 2004;McShane and Newby, 2003;Billé et al, 2012).…”