Environmental monitoring: the scale and speed of implementation varies according to the degree of peoples involvement

Danielsen, Finn; Burgess, Neil D.; Jensen, Per Moestrup; Pirhofer‐Walzl, Karin

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01874.x

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“…We have developed a cost-effective monitoring technique that uses local ecological knowledge and can be widely replicated, ideal for resource-limited and spatially extensive tropical contexts (Danielsen et al 2010, Waldron et al 2013. This is encouraging because the information provided by local resource users on species-specific depletion can be consistent with current scientific knowledge (Gagnon and Berteaux 2009, Turvey et al 2013, Ziembicki et al 2013, Beaudreau and Levin 2014.…”

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“…However, monitoring is only genuinely participatory if local stakeholders are active and equal participants in decision-making processes, rather than just agents of data collection (Brook andMcLachlan 2008, Jones et al 2013). Greater local involvement also leads to more rapid translation of monitoring results into management action (Danielsen et al 2010).…”

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Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales

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2015

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C. A. Peres. 2015. Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales. ABSTRACT. Monitoring the distribution and abundance of hunted wildlife is critical to achieving sustainable resource use, yet adequate data are sparse for most tropical regions. Conventional methods for monitoring hunted forest-vertebrate species require intensive in situ survey effort, which severely constrains spatial and temporal replication. Integrating local ecological knowledge (LEK) into monitoring and management is appealing because it can be cost-effective, enhance community participation, and provide novel insights into sustainable resource use. We develop a technique to monitor population depletion of hunted forest wildlife in the Brazilian Amazon, based on the local ecological knowledge of rural hunters. We performed rapid interview surveys to estimate the landscape-scale depletion of ten large-bodied vertebrate species around 161 Amazonian riverine settlements. We assessed the explanatory and predictive power of settlement and landscape characteristics and were able to develop robust estimates of local faunal depletion. By identifying speciesspecific drivers of depletion and using secondary data on human population density, land form, and physical accessibility, we then estimated landscape-and regional-scale depletion. White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), for example, were estimated to be absent from 17% of their putative range in Brazil's largest state (Amazonas), despite 98% of the original forest cover remaining intact. We found evidence that bushmeat consumption in small urban centers has far-reaching impacts on some forest species, including severe depletion well over 100 km from urban centers. We conclude that LEK-based approaches require further field validation, but have significant potential for community-based participatory monitoring as well as cost-effective, large-scale monitoring of threatened forest species.

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Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales

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2015

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“…A potential consequence of large-scale monitoring systems is the challenge of transferring information to the entire community (Danielsen et al 2010b). This is perhaps the biggest challenge facing EBS.…”

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Empowering Local People through Community-based Resource Monitoring: a Comparison of Brazil and Namibia

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ABSTRACT. Biological resource monitoring systems are implemented in many countries and often depend on the participation of local people. It has been suggested that these systems empower local participants while promoting conservation. We reviewed three wildlife monitoring systems in indigenous lands and sustainable development reserves in Brazilian Amazonia and one in Namibian Caprivi conservancies, analyzing the strategies adopted and conditions that facilitated local empowerment, as well as potential impacts on conservation. This provided insights into potential avenues to strengthen empowerment outcomes of monitoring systems in Latin America and Africa. We assessed four dimensions of empowerment at individual and community scales: psychological, social, economic, and political. The conditions that facilitated local empowerment included the value of natural resources, rights to trade and manage resources, political organization of communities, and collaboration by stakeholders. The wide range of strategies to empower local people included intensifying local participation, linking them to local education, feeding information back to communities, purposefully selecting participants, paying for monitoring services, marketing monitored resources, and inserting local people into broader politics. Although communities were socially and politically empowered, the monitoring systems more often promoted individual empowerment. Marketing of natural resources promoted higher economic empowerment in conservancies in Namibia, whereas information dissemination was better in Brazil because of integrated education programs. We suggest that practitioners take advantage of local facilitating conditions to enhance the empowerment of communities, bearing in mind that increasing autonomy to make management decisions may not agree with international conservation goals. Our comparative analysis of cases in Latin America and Africa allows for a greater understanding of the relationships between resource monitoring systems, local empowerment, and conservation.

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“…Past work does, however, suggest that community involvement in monitoring enhances feelings of ownership and improves governance while building local capacity (Andrianandrasana et al 2005, Danielsen et al 2005, Gibson et al 2005. Moreover, local people's participation in monitoring has been shown to enhance decision-making at the operational level of forest management (Danielsen et al 2007(Danielsen et al , 2010. Monitoring forest carbon, biodiversity, and livelihoods by local communities may, therefore, be one part of the foundations of a fair and equitable REDD+.…”

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Community Monitoring for REDD+: International Promises and Field Realities

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ABSTRACT. Will community monitoring assist in delivering just and equitable REDD+? We assessed whether local communities can effectively estimate carbon stocks in some of the world's most carbon rich forests, using simple field protocols, and we reviewed whether community monitoring exists in current REDD+ pilots. We obtained similar results for forest carbon when measured by communities and professional foresters in 289 vegetation plots in Southeast Asia. Most REDD+ monitoring schemes, however, contain no community involvement. To close the gulf between United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change texts on involving communities and field implementation realities, we propose greater embedding of community monitoring within national REDD+ pilot schemes, which we argue will lead to a more just REDD+.

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Environmental monitoring: the scale and speed of implementation varies according to the degree of peoples involvement

Cited by 200 publications

References 11 publications

Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales

Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge to monitor hunted tropical-forest wildlife over large spatial scales

Empowering Local People through Community-based Resource Monitoring: a Comparison of Brazil and Namibia

Community Monitoring for REDD+: International Promises and Field Realities

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