Exploring relationships between conservation and poverty reduction in wetland ecosystems: lessons from 10 integrated wetland conservation and poverty reduction initiatives

Sellamuttu, Sonali Senaratna; Silva, Sanjiv de; Nguyen-Khoa, Sophie

doi:10.1080/13504509.2011.560034

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“…Wetland ecosystems play vital cultural, economic and ecological roles, supporting livelihoods and reducing poverty (Kumar et al, 2011;Senaratna Sellamuttu et al, 2011;Verma and Negandhi, 2011). Frequently, the fish and marine invertebrate populations supported by intact seagrass ecosystems maintain stocks of commercial and artisanal importance, and their exploitation makes significant economic and food security contributions to many coastal communities (Jackson et al, 2001).…”

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Harnessing the climate mitigation, conservation and poverty alleviation potential of seagrasses: prospects for developing blue carbon initiatives and payment for ecosystem service programmes

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Section: Cultural Services: Social Relationsmentioning

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Harnessing the climate mitigation, conservation and poverty alleviation potential of seagrasses: prospects for developing blue carbon initiatives and payment for ecosystem service programmes

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“…Increased rural populations and changes in socioeconomic practices have increased the demand for provisioning services [11,24,25] especially related to the commercialisation of wetland agriculture. However, not all wetlands provide all ecosystem services equally [26], according to their physical properties of soil and water, their size, and different ecosystems [27,28]. Broadly, the ecological status and characteristics of wetlands determine the nature and types of ecosystem services available.…”

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Feedbacks and Trade-Offs in the Use of Wetland Ecosystem Services by Local Communities in Rural Zimbabwe

Mandishona

Knight

2022

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Rural wetlands, especially in developing countries, have been exploited for different ecosystem services because they are considered safety nets for food production and are important for livelihood strategies and human wellbeing. However, there are gaps in knowledge of the ecosystem services provided by small, valley bottom wetlands, especially in dryland areas and how these services are used and managed by local communities. This study focuses on the ecosystem services of valley bottom wetlands in Zindi, the Honde Valley, in rural eastern Zimbabwe. Ethnographic observations of wetland users’ activities and individual interviews with local residents and village heads were undertaken in this study, focusing on how people make use of the different ecosystem services that are derived from these wetlands. Results show that the wetlands are mainly utilised for provisioning services, but that these are related to the availability and properties of supporting and regulatory services in the wetland environment. All of these services are also strongly mediated by the traditional cultural contexts and values held by local communities. The results show that the exploitation of some ecosystem services leads to negative impacts on the availability or properties of others, and this means that there are trade-offs in the uses and management by individuals and communities as a whole. These feedbacks and trade-offs are not well explored in most studies but are critical in considering community responses to changing wetland resources, in particular under climate change. This study recommends that policymakers should include small and often hitherto overlooked wetlands in their management plans, since they are critical for supporting rural livelihoods. It is also important that wetland management plans aim to improve the range and sustainability of ecosystem services available and avoid the need for unnecessary trade-offs in their use by local communities.

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“…They argued that there was a variation in forest coverage around park households and control households and park households depended more on forest resources and on the proximity to the park resources. In general, understanding the patterns of natural resource use of each group of people using the park can help park managers focus on the groups having the highest impact on the park and identify strategies to mitigate their impacts on natural resources (Senaratna Sellamuttu et al, 2011) and can be a foundation for accessing the local-level institutions governing resource use (Mitra and Mishra, 2011 win-win scenarios between conserving species and sustaining human populations (Crawhall, 2015).…”

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Participatory wetland conservation in Yok Don National Park, Vietnam

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Protected areas are the 'backbone' of conservation, essential to supporting a diverse, healthy and resilient environment. They also play an important role in contributing to the culture and livelihoods of Indigenous communities, often leading to conflict between conservation and the needs of local communities. Collaborative management has been found to be an effective strategy to decrease this.However, a lack of communication and shared understanding can be an impediment to developing co-management arrangements. I examined levels of natural resource use in Indigenous communities in Yok Don National Park, Vietnam. I identified the most important cultural keystone species and examined the effectiveness of using a conceptual social-ecological modelling approach to enhance Indigenous communities are elephants, cogon grass, Indian mulberry, turtles, snakes, lizards, fishes, frogs, crabs, shrimps, sweet leaf, rice paddy herb and sticky adenosma. The first four most important cultural keystone species were unpacked by multiple dimensions of relationship between these cultural keystone species and Indigenous communities. The results illustrate the complexity of cultural keystone species and how people value them differently. These differences were rooted in the attributes of those animals and plants and the way they are used by people. A conceptual socialecological systems model was developed in a workshop of community representatives and managers to gain an understanding of the social and environmental relationship between Indigenous communities and the protected area. The accuracy of this conceptual model was examined by developing individual conceptual social-ecological systems models for the most important cultural iii keystone species. After the workshop all participants from the communities reported an increased awareness of the importance of wetland resources and the need to maintain these, as well as a better understanding of the functions of important species in terms of their conservation. Managers reported their understanding of local people's desires to ensure local livelihoods through investment in cultivation, planting perennial plants and breeding some species around their villages. They saw a role for the park management through employing local people as guides and providing permission, funding, training and source animals for rearing and breeding instead of concentrating just on the management and conservation of the forest. All representatives from the Indigenous communities felt more comfortable initiating discussion with park managers, who had previously been reluctant to share their knowledge. Identifying potential areas where collaborative management might be improved will allow managers and local communities to move toward negotiations for more formal collaborative management agreements. iv Declaration by authorThis thesis is composed of my original work, and contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference has been made in the text. I have ...

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Exploring relationships between conservation and poverty reduction in wetland ecosystems: lessons from 10 integrated wetland conservation and poverty reduction initiatives

Cited by 10 publications

References 11 publications

Harnessing the climate mitigation, conservation and poverty alleviation potential of seagrasses: prospects for developing blue carbon initiatives and payment for ecosystem service programmes

Harnessing the climate mitigation, conservation and poverty alleviation potential of seagrasses: prospects for developing blue carbon initiatives and payment for ecosystem service programmes

Feedbacks and Trade-Offs in the Use of Wetland Ecosystem Services by Local Communities in Rural Zimbabwe

Participatory wetland conservation in Yok Don National Park, Vietnam

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