Engaging Communities and Government in Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation in Papua New Guinea

Jacobs, Brent; McKenna, Kylie; Boronyak, Louise; Dem, Francesca; Sui, Shen; Pomoh, Kenneth; Jimbudo, Mavis; Maraia, Heveakore

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-40552-6_11

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“…Discussion‐based decision‐making methods (Tables 5 and 6; n = 10) were defined as using group deliberation of various ecosystem service information to form consensus over management plans, such as from GIS data (#8.2 Brunet et al, 2018; #18 Jacobs et al, 2020), ecosystem assessment (#31 Xie et al, 2017) or a mixture of sources (#36 West Country Rivers Trust, 2016). There is also some use of scenario development, where participants divided management options to ease decision making (#27 Palacios‐Agundez et al, 2014; #28 Reyers et al, 2015) or made use of artistic visualisations (#19 Karrasch et al, 2017) and narrative story development (#8.3 Brunet et al, 2018) for management scenarios.…”

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Using natural capital and ecosystem services to facilitate participatory environmental decision making: Results from a systematic map

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The rights all people have for involvement in environmental decision making has long been established yet collaborative resource management has had mixed success. Natural capital; the renewable and non‐renewable natural assets that benefit societies, and the flow of ecosystem services these assets provide, are increasingly promoted as approaches that ensure consideration of the environment in decision making. Natural capital and ecosystem services concepts can facilitate participation in decision making by explicitly describing the role of the environment in sustaining society. Increased promotion of these approaches requires consideration on how best to involve stakeholders, those involved and affected by a decision, in the process. We conducted a systematic search to identify where stakeholders have participated in natural capital, ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people decision making, creating a systematic map of 56 case studies. While many papers discussing stakeholders and these concepts were found, few actively engaged stakeholders in a decision‐making process that used the concepts and therefore were included in the map. Where stakeholders were involved, engagement methods included focus group discussion, stakeholder negotiation and scenario development, as well as ecosystem service ranking and mapping. Ranking for prioritisation of ecosystem services was common, with a bias towards using services with a direct tangible economic benefit; food production and tourism, are both prominent examples. A limited number of case studies performed robust participatory methods evaluations, offering little indication of how best to use natural capital or ecosystem services in participatory approaches. Therefore, the work highlights need for greater evaluation of participatory processes involving natural capital to ensure stakeholder engagement is efficient, productive and useful to all involved. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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“…Apart from timber forest products, there is also potential for non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and environmental services, but they are less attractive to investors and their natural abundances are still hidden in Papua's forest areas. These non-timber forest products contribute a lot to the fulfilment of daily food for the local Papuan people who depend on these forest product resources as natural nutrients, energy sources, medicinal plants, protein, and other essential aspects [1,2,3,4,5]. These advantage contribution of the NTFPs are superior to the timber-based products, and they are used for the strength of the SWOT analysis in the development of NTFPs.…”

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Selected non-timber forest products (NTFPS) commodity for future green economy-based products development in Papua Province

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2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) play significant roles in the daily livelihood of the forest communities’ dependence, local forest management practices, and forest resource sustainability in Papua Province. This research is designed to identify, characterize, and examine the roles of the NTFPs to local communities in Papua Province to be nominated and developed as green economy-based commodities in Papua. Document analysis, literature review, and an interview with the selected respondents are conducted to collect the data. The 7th Forest Management Units (FMU) and the 4th Forestry and Environment Branch across Papua Province will be selected as targeted research areas. The results indicated that the 21 NTFPs-based commodities were identified, and could be developed and promoted as green economy-based products. There are ranging from essential oils, agarwood, noken, mangrove derivate products, honey, coffee, masohi’s bark, sago, ginger-based products, ecotourism, palm peanuts, cocoa, fish-based products, seaweed, and others. Each FMU has candidature products commodities to be developed as green economy products, and the future development program is highly needed to be formulated.

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“…Despite the array of communications programmes and the number of actors involved, Bosip (2012) expressed concern about the fate of climate change mitigation projects, saying that people in different parts of PNG needed information on what worked elsewhere in the country. Writing almost a decade later, Jacobs et al (2020) have expressed equal concerns about the viability of climate change related programmes due to a lack of infrastructure and poor governance:…”

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“…Issues of governance, such as a lack of funding or funding delays, leadership and administrative instability and communication weaknesses to other layers of government were identified as obstacles to effective action 152 PACIFIC JOURNALISM REVIEW 26 (1) 2020MEDIA FREEDOM IN MELANESIA and must be resolved for successful adaptation to climate change. (Jacobs et al, 2020) The OCCD's successor body, the Climate Change Development Authority (CCDA) (CCDA About Us, n.d.) has as its stated objective 'to build a climate resilient and carbon neutral pathway for climate compatible development in Papua New Guinea.' (CCDA National Communication, n.d.).…”

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Some aspects of climate change communication and effectiveness in PNG

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2020

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This article examines some aspects of climate change communication in Papua New Guinea (PNG), particularly the use of Tok Pisin language. To place the issue in a broader, global context, the article compares the situation in PNG with that of the use of Pidgin English in Nigeria. The article argues that a major project needs to be undertaken to determine the effectiveness of this communication. It suggests drawing on the experience of both the Bougainville Audience Study and the BBC Trusts’ examination of climate change in Nigeria.

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Engaging Communities and Government in Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Adaptation in Papua New Guinea

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Using natural capital and ecosystem services to facilitate participatory environmental decision making: Results from a systematic map

Using natural capital and ecosystem services to facilitate participatory environmental decision making: Results from a systematic map

Selected non-timber forest products (NTFPS) commodity for future green economy-based products development in Papua Province

Some aspects of climate change communication and effectiveness in PNG

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