Evaluating combinations of on-and off-reserve conservation strategies for the Agulhas Plain, South Africa: a financial perspective

Pence, Genevieve Q. K.; Botha, Mark; Turpie, Jane

doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(02)00413-5

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“…Conservation programs increasingly depend on voluntary land acquisitions and financial incentive schemes (3)(4)(5). An example is provided by the burgeoning land trust movement in the United States (ref.…”

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Land market feedbacks can undermine biodiversity conservation

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The full or partial purchase of land has become a cornerstone of efforts to conserve biodiversity in countries with strong private property rights. Methods used to target areas for acquisition typically ignore land market dynamics. We show how conservation purchases affect land prices and generate feedbacks that can undermine conservation goals, either by displacing development toward biologically valuable areas or by accelerating its pace. The impact of these market feedbacks on the effectiveness of conservation depends on the ecological value of land outside nature reserves. Traditional, noneconomic approaches to site prioritization should perform adequately in places where land outside reserves supports little biodiversity. However, these approaches will perform poorly in locations where the countryside surrounding reserves is important for species' persistence. Conservation investments can sometimes even be counterproductive, condemning more species than they save. Conservation is most likely to be compromised in the absence of accurate information on species distributions, which provides a strong argument for improving inventories of biodiversity. Accounting for land market dynamics in conservation planning is crucial for making smart investment decisions.conservation planning ͉ reserve design ͉ site selection ͉ development pressure ͉ habitat destruction

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Land market feedbacks can undermine biodiversity conservation

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“…The literature regarding the management of PAs reflects a number of ongoing concerns, including the links between community management, livelihood, poverty alleviation and development (Agrawal 129 and Gibson 1999;Bray 2007;Koning et al 2011;McNab and Ramos 2007;Mbile et al 2005;Nielsen and Treue 2012); management of lands around the perimeter of PAs (Defries et al 2007;Pence et al 2003); and the identification, planning and design of a PA and its management strategies (Brandon et al 2005;Kremen et al 1999). Of most relevance to the Pebblebed heathland project is the subject of who does the managing and whether it is effective.…”

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An Anthropology of Landscape

2017

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PrefaceThe research for this book took place from 2008 to 2012. It ran in tandem with an archaeological project involving a fieldwork survey of the entire heathlands, and excavations of multiple sites during the same time period directed by Chris Tilley. It is important to acknowledge this in terms of the discussion of this being a contested landscape. After moving to the area and having decided to visit all the prehistoric cairns, Chris went walking on the heathlands with Tor, his dog. These became walks with a purpose. After seeing all the cairns he decided to walk between them in order to study their relationship to each other and the unique Pebblebed landscape in which they are situated. He quickly became fascinated with the pebbles and how these bright and rounded objects transform what otherwise might appear, to the casual observer, to be a quite monotonous landscape. Realizing that this was unlikely to be just a contemporary appreciation, he then initiated the project. From an archaeologist's perspective he is trying to create a story of the past in the present: a story involving the topography; a story involving the pebbles, the land, the sea, the sky, the sun; and integrate these things into some kind of sense of how it might have been, all the time trying to link past and present. And so the anthropological project investigating the meaning and significance of the contemporary heathland and its pebbles arose. All the research was carried out by Chris and Kate Cameron-Daum. It was very much a collaborative exercise in which both of us were engaged in participant observation and interviews with over one hundred informants. Chris and his family were living in the research area and Kate was staying with them: this had definite advantages in that the field site was quite literally entered when leaving the front door of the house. This permitted sustained engagement with both the heathland landscape and those working there or visiting it throughout the years and in all weathers and seasons. This facilitated, we believe, something of an intimate 'insider's' (the punctuation marks to be emphasized) knowledge of the landscape and the establishment of ongoing personal contacts and relationships. During the course of the archaeological research and the An AnThropology of lAnDsCApe viii viii viii anthropological research discussed here the landscape has become a powerful element in the formation of our own biographies and identities. We both wanted to study anthropology as students because we were interested in the lives of others and how an understanding of them might lead us to reflect on our own lives and experiences. Although the two cannot be separated, we did not choose to study anthropology to learn about the anthropologists conducting the research, their lives, trials and tribulations in the field. We take it as axiomatic that it is from the ethnographic self that accounts arise, that self-reflexivity in research is fundamental and that all our findings are subjective (Clifford and Marcus 1986; Clifford 1...

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“…More proposals for land management are being made at the landscape-scale to encourage connectivity of protected areas and other land use types across the borders of two or more countries to form TFCAs. The purpose is to manage the entire landscapes as a unit where the region in question encompasses the network of existing protected ecosystems or the unprotected ecosystem or portions of both across the border (Margules, Pressey, 2000;Pence et al, 2003;Bennett, 2004;Muchapondwa et al, 2009). Thus, TFCAs are premised on transforming international borders and the need to reconfigure transnational spaces into a borderless landscape (Fall, 2003;Noe, 2010;Ramutsindela, 2014).…”

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Multiple-land use practices in transfrontier conservation areas: the case of Greater Mapungubwe straddling parts of Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe

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2016

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Abstract. Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) have recently emerged as the 21 st century approach to managing protected areas in southern Africa. Unlike national parks and other protected areas that place emphasis only on the protection of plant and animal species within their borders, transfrontier conservation areas promote conservation beyond the borders of protected areas. Consequently, this mega-conservation initiative encourage multiple land-use practices with the

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Evaluating combinations of on-and off-reserve conservation strategies for the Agulhas Plain, South Africa: a financial perspective

Cited by 68 publications

References 18 publications

Land market feedbacks can undermine biodiversity conservation

Land market feedbacks can undermine biodiversity conservation

An Anthropology of Landscape

Multiple-land use practices in transfrontier conservation areas: the case of Greater Mapungubwe straddling parts of Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe

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