Conservation, Development, and a Heterogeneous Community: The Case of Ambohitantely Special Reserve, Madagascar

Klein, J⊘rgen; Réau, Bertrand; Kalland, Ingvild; Edwards, Mary E.

doi:10.1080/08941920701211900

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“…Cultural services are important in many local communities (Folke et al 2005), who have cultural and spiritual bonds with sacred landscapes (Butler and Oluoch-Kosura 2006) such as forests around old tombs which are considered homes of spirits (Klein et al 2007). For example, among the Xhosa people of South Africa, dense forests and sacred pools have specific rituals associated with them and they provide direct communication with the spiritual world and access blessings and health and thanks giving to ancestral spirits through performance of certain rituals.…”

Section: Cultural Services In Miombo Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A conceptual framework for understanding forest socio-ecological systems

Kalaba

2014

Biodivers Conserv

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Globally, there is increasing attention among academics, policymakers and development agencies in understanding interactions within forest socio-ecological systems to provide insights on human-environment interactions and how forest ecosystems contribute to human well-being. This is particularly important for biologically diverse dry and sub-humid forest ecological systems where livelihoods are heavily dependent on benefits derived directly from forests, yet human-environmental interactions remain poorly understood. In many developing countries, forests provide various services that significantly contribute to livelihood portfolios' and generally to human well-being. Although it is widely acknowledged that benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems are fundamentally dependent on ecosystem functions and processes, the role of transforming structures and processes in converting ecological potential benefits into actual benefits utilised by people has not been addressed. This paper presents a conceptual framework for forest ecosystem services which shows the interactions between ecological and social components of forest socio-ecological systems, and provides steps through which ecosystem properties produce benefits to livelihoods. It argues that transforming structures have the potential to promote or hinder people from utilising ecosystems and therefore improved forest management requires in-depth understanding of transforming structures within spatially explicit forest socio-ecological systems. This paper then applies the proposed framework to Africa's Miombo forest systems.

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Section: Cultural Services In Miombo Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A conceptual framework for understanding forest socio-ecological systems

Kalaba

2014

Biodivers Conserv

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“…It takes into account conservation's recent trend towards developing solutions that consider the drivers of behaviour as well as the rights of local and indigenous groups and their dependency on the surrounding environment [Nekaris et al, 2010;Riley, 2010;Riley and Fuentes, 2011;Alexander et al, 2014]. There is evidence that conservation interventions which understand traditional values and beliefs are more successful [Waylen et al, 2010] and avoid worstcase scenarios where insensitive interventions alienate locals from the conservation message [Klein et al, 2007].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Know Your Monkey: Identifying Primate Conservation Challenges in an Indigenous Kichwa Community Using an Ethnoprimatological Approach

Stafford¹,

Alarcon-Valenzuela²,

Patiño³

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IJFP

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Increasing pressure on tropical forests is continually highlighting the need to find new solutions that mitigate the impact of human populations on biodiversity. However, developing solutions that can tackle the drivers of anthropogenic pressure, or at least take them into account, hinges upon building a good understanding of the culture and perceptions of local people. This study aims to provide an overview of the ethnoprimatology of an indigenous Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that maintains a traditional lifestyle but also has good access to markets. We examine whether primates are seen as a distinctive group and their relative importance as sources of bushmeat and as household pets. Pile-sorting exercises revealed that although locals generally group members of the order Primates together, tree-dwelling non-primates including sloths, coatis, kinkajous and tamanduas are also frequently classified as ‘monkeys'. The perceived importance of primates to the forest and the community lay more in their potential as bushmeat, and only 1 respondent identified an ecological role for the group in terms of seed dispersal. Gaining a better understanding of local perceptions will allow for better-informed conservation decisions that are more aware of potential impacts and are more likely to gain community support.

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“…However, the ICDP literature indicates that the concept of community is hardly ever tackled carefully when these projects are implemented (Klein et al 2007). One of the reasons is that the term community conceals a lot of complexity because social systems are multi scalar (Berkes 2004b).…”

Section: Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Spiteri & Nepal (2006) suggest that a holistic understanding of community with an effort to include landless groups is necessary for POC studies. Some authors insist that community should not simply be assumed as a monolithic whole or uniform entity, rather it should be understood as heterogeneous groups of households who are proposed to share common characteristics such as ethnicity, religion, caste and language (Neumann 1997;Agrawal & Gibson 1999;Brown 2002;Klein et al 2007). In addition, Neumann (1997) pointed out two main benefits to viewing communities as small and homogenous units.…”

Section: Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Crawford et al (2006) suggest that community complexity needs to be considered as a key influencing factor in order to achieve success in POC. Several factors that make up the complexity of the local community should be addressed, such as: historical background to the settlement; ethnic and caste differences; local institutions; relation to the forests; and forest management (Klein et al 2007). In addition, attention should be paid equally to gender, ethnicity and social economic status (Taylor 2008).…”

Section: Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Local ecological knowledge, livelihoods and conservation in the changing forest social ecological systems of Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

Nguyen¹

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The management of protected areas worldwide has demonstrated undesirable sideeffects in achieving conservation objectives and development objectives. This is in part due to simplified assumptions about human environmental relationships. The socialecological systems (SESs) way of thinking, that considers the multi-dimensional relationships between people and their environments, provides a way to bridge this gap. A common problem in management of protected areas is that local peoples, who have relied on that environment for livelihoods, are often displaced in the interests of conservation.Little is known about the consequences for the people, or the SES.

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Conservation, Development, and a Heterogeneous Community: The Case of Ambohitantely Special Reserve, Madagascar

Cited by 27 publications

References 19 publications

A conceptual framework for understanding forest socio-ecological systems

A conceptual framework for understanding forest socio-ecological systems

Know Your Monkey: Identifying Primate Conservation Challenges in an Indigenous Kichwa Community Using an Ethnoprimatological Approach

Local ecological knowledge, livelihoods and conservation in the changing forest social ecological systems of Cat Ba Island, Vietnam

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