Emerging landscapes of private conservation: Enclosure and mediation in southern Chilean protected areas

Giminiani, Piergiorgio Di; Fonck, Martín

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.09.018

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“…Discussions of particular traditional practices, as well, often revealed that farmers followed specific principles (e.g. ''keeping the forest clean'', see also Di Giminiani and Fonck 2018) or practices, such as community-managed rotation of forest product harvesting, crop rotation with fallows, and nonirrigated crop production (de rulo), which they believed were sustainable and not harmful. Several farmers reported having saved nesting animals when clearing fields by burning (which is no longer practised).…”

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“…Criticism of the social and environmental costs of economic development is only now becoming somewhat acceptable, with a wave of environmental activism in rural areas, opposing new mines and dams. Access to resources, such as water (Budds 2004), and traditional access rights to land now managed as private protected areas (PPAs) (Di Giminiani and Fonck 2018) are also typical sources of rural environmental conflict. Rural Chileans are not necessarily aware of the scale or impacts of environmental change (Alfonso et al 2017) and may have negative attitudes towards some wildlife, e.g.…”

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Tacit working models of human behavioural change II: Farmers’ folk theories of conservation programme design

Root‐Bernstein

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Guerrero-Gatica

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Community involvement may be essential for conservation programme success. We focus on farmers, asking how and why they believe conservation interventions will work, or not. Here we test models of folk theories of the human motivational factors required for behaviour change, in 3 rural central Chilean communities. We hypothesize that different models will be supported by farmers with different experiences with conservation programmes, and that socioeconomic and production system variation will explain further variation in who supports each working model. We use a multiple methods approach, combining a questionnaire with participantobservation. We find support for three of the working models of human behavioural change, among different socio-economic profiles of farmers. We believe that the schema of working models provides a boundary object to facilitate communication between conservationists and stakeholders, and can help improve conservation project design and implementation.

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Section: Study Sitementioning

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Tacit working models of human behavioural change II: Farmers’ folk theories of conservation programme design

Root‐Bernstein

Bondoux

Guerrero-Gatica

et al. 2020

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“…Private conservation initiatives can play an important role in the region as a long‐term biodiversity conservation strategy covering protection gaps, favouring territorial and biological connectivity in the current protected area system and creating opportunities for nature recreation. In Chile, private conservation has had an extensive impact with many national and international non‐governmental and civil organisations pushing an environmental agenda for promoting legal reforms to support private conservation (Di Giminiani & Fonck, 2018). Low‐impact tourism and environmental education are activities that are being prioritised by private conservation initiatives in Chile (Nuñez‐Avila et al., 2013).…”

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Conservation planning for people and nature in a Chilean biodiversity hotspot

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“…What is obscured in this tacit working model, but which has been emphasised by Peluso (1993) and many others, is the political work and the power relations that permit this division of space and the creation of a hard boundary. However, state control is rarely absolute, and local people have often been able to resist and protest conservation measures in PAs through more or less overt forms of conflict (Peluso 1993;Brockington 2004;Di Giminiani and Fonck 2018). This outcome of initially untheorized, under-recognised power dynamics has led to a series of confused elaborations on protected area-related projects.…”

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Tacit working models of human behavioural change I: Implementation of conservation projects

Root‐Bernstein

2020

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The ''human dimension'' of conservation is increasingly recognised as critical for success. Most conservation research involving people is based not on explicit ''theories of change'', but tacit local knowledge or folk theories guiding programme design.In this study, I propose a schematization of the local socioecological knowledge and folk theories about the ''human dimension'' of conservation into tacit working models, comprised of individual factors and systemic factors influencing human behaviour in conservation contexts. These are called the Persuasion, Normative, Involvement and Uniformity tacit working models. I review a set of conservation interventions and programmes, in order to assess which of the implicit working models inform their design. I argue that in order to better understand how a project may arrive at different outcomes, the underlying assumptions about human behaviour and the implicit ''theory of change'' that went into programme design need to be made explicit. This schema does not evaluate different approaches to conservation, but it can help point out the underlying assumptions that structure interventions and that may be more or less suited to particular situations. This can allow researchers to recognise their own assumptions and test them explicitly, leading to the formulation of more reflective and explicit theories, and improving the quality of both discourse and practice in conservation.

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Emerging landscapes of private conservation: Enclosure and mediation in southern Chilean protected areas

Cited by 17 publications

References 43 publications

Tacit working models of human behavioural change II: Farmers’ folk theories of conservation programme design

Tacit working models of human behavioural change II: Farmers’ folk theories of conservation programme design

Conservation planning for people and nature in a Chilean biodiversity hotspot

Tacit working models of human behavioural change I: Implementation of conservation projects

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