Economic Efficiency and Incentives for Change within Namibia's Community Wildlife Use Initiatives

Barnes, Jonathan I.; MacGregor, James; Weaver, Liz

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(01)00134-6

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“…Evidence from all the studies cited previously suggests that international willingness to pay for elephant conservation in African countries exists, which implies that South Africa has a range of options to choose from. Barnes et al (2002) supports this view and maintains that much of the hitherto substantial international NGO and donor support for CBNRM is a form of nonuse values. Additionally, contingent valuation studies among wildlife viewing tourists in Botswana and Namibia (Barnes, 1996b;Barnes et al, 1999) revealed a significant willingness to pay for wildlife conservation.…”

Section: Elephant Crop Damage Cost Levelmentioning

confidence: 72%

Effects of Elephants on Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Kerley¹,

Landman²,

Kruger³

et al. 2008

Elephant Management

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ISBN 978 1 86814 479 2All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the express permission, in writing, of both the author and the publisher.Cover photograph by Donald Cook at stock.xchng Cover design, layout and design by Acumen Publishing Solutions, JohannesburgPrinted and bound by Creda Communications, Cape Town Foreword SOUTH AFRICA and its people are blessed with diverse and thriving wildlife. We are also a developing economy with a growing population. From these facts emerges the particular situation of having most of our protected areas surrounded by land that has been transformed, to a greater or lesser extent, by human development. Large mammals, such as elephants, no longer roam the entire landscape, and their populations are no longer completely governed by the laws of nature. Protecting elephants and the ecological systems in which they exist in a practical and sustainable way that balances the needs of humans, elephants and the environment is a challenge to which I am committed.This Assessment was undertaken to reduce the degree of scientific uncertainty associated with decisions that must be made very soon and in the medium-to-long term. It helps to evaluate the costs and benefits associated with each choice, both in economic and ecological terms, and clarifies the legal framework within which they must be made. Collectively the chapters in this report reveal the many successes our country's experts, in collaboration with their peers in neighbouring countries and abroad, have achieved in understanding elephants and their needs, in fields as diverse as veterinary science, ecology, animal behaviour, population and resource modelling.Importantly, the Assessment exposes important gaps in our understanding and thus outlines necessary future avenues of research. This Assessment represents a key milestone in an ongoing Elephant Research Programme.Science does not provide all the information required to resolve the difficult issues raised by the management of elephant in a changing and humandominated world. Many of the required decisions have a strong element of human values implicit in them. How do South Africans wish to treat the other species with which they share our land? Extensive consultation and careful consideration of the values expressed by a wide range of stakeholders is also an essential part of the process of managing elephant in a democratic country.I am grateful to the many experts and interested persons who invested their time, experience and intellect to deliver this Assessment. I look forward to their continued engagement on the issue of elephant management, which is of great interest to many. Marthinus van Schalkwyk Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, 2008 ContentS LiSt oF FigureS LiSt oF boxeS About the AuthorS And ContributorS Brandon Anthony is an assistant professor at the Department of EnvironmentalScienc...

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Section: Elephant Crop Damage Cost Levelmentioning

confidence: 72%

Effects of Elephants on Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Kerley¹,

Landman²,

Kruger³

et al. 2008

Elephant Management

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“…Michael Bollig reports in his contribution that the hopes and aspirations of the Namibian government in the establishment of new commons corresponded to changing concerns about natural resource management on the international level: the state was meant to devolve the day to day management of natural resources to rural communities, provide conditions that locals benefitted economically from resources in the best possible way and that co-management of resources would result in management plans geared towards sustainability (Barnes et al 2002;Bollig and Menestrey-Schwieger 2014). There was a general consensus that a heightened sense of ownership, economic incentives and stable local social institutions were the key to sustainable resource use in the poverty-stricken, post-civil war communal areas of Namibia's north.…”

Section: Top-down: Co-managed Pastoral Commonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The “new pastoral commons” of Eastern and Southern Africa

Bollig

Lesorogol

2016

Int J Commons

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“…Beginning in the 1990s the implementation of CBNRM led to a drastic reconfiguration of the organizational and institutional landscapes around rural water points (Barnes et al 2002;Davis 2008;Falk et al 2009;Silva and Mosimane 2013;Bollig and Menestrey Schwieger 2014;Menestrey Schwieger 2015;Schnegg 2016a). A shift toward self-governance meant turning ownership and responsibility of the borehole infrastructure over to local user groups.…”

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confidence: 99%

Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

Schnegg

Linke

2016

Int J Commons

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Abstract:In recent decades, water management in Namibia has profoundly changed. Beginning in the 1990s the Namibian state has incrementally turned ownership of and the responsibility for its rural water supply to local user groups. While the state withdrew from managing resources directly, it continued to circumscribe the ways in which local communities should govern them. In so doing, a "new commons" was created. Inclusive participation became the leitmotif of the new management scheme and in particular the participation of women was a major political and societal goal. In this article, we use the notion of travelling models as a theoretical guide to explore how the idea of participation emerged in international development discourses and how it was then translated through national legislation into the local context. The results of the analysis show that more than 20 years after the formulation of international conventions the average participation of women in local water committees remains low. However, older women do manage the funds associated with water and thus occupy one of the most important functions. Our explanation takes the wider social and cultural field into account and shows that gender and generational roles provide elder women with autonomy and authority which prepare their ways into these new official roles. We conclude by considering whether and how the travelling model of participation has been changing local social structures in general and the role of elder women in particular.

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Economic Efficiency and Incentives for Change within Namibia's Community Wildlife Use Initiatives

Cited by 69 publications

References 5 publications

Effects of Elephants on Ecosystems and Biodiversity

Effects of Elephants on Ecosystems and Biodiversity

The “new pastoral commons” of Eastern and Southern Africa

Travelling models of participation: Global ideas and local translations of water management in Namibia

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