Interactions between protected areas and their surroundings in human-dominated tropical landscapes

DeFries, Ruth; Karanth, Krithi K.; Pareeth, Sajid

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.02.010

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“…The park is under strict protection, all human activity, excluding tourism, is prohibited (Shrinidhi and Lele 2001). There are however settlements of tribal and nontribal communities within its boundaries (DeFries et al 2010). The Nagarhole National Park has a conflictridden history with many resettlements or "voluntary relocations" to the forest fringes in the rehabilitation zones of the park.…”

Section: Management Regimes Land Tenure Systems and Resource Use Rimentioning

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Local Community Attitudes toward Forests Outside Protected Areas in India. Impact of Legal Awareness, Trust, and Participation.

Macura¹,

Zorondo-Rodríguez²,

Grau-Satorras³

et al. 2011

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ABSTRACT. The success of long-term sustainable management of natural resources depends on local people's support. Assessing local people's attitudes, taking into account their needs, and respecting their opinions should become a management priority. In India, in the last 20 years, community needs and aspirations in forest management were handled through Joint Forest Management with varying degrees of success. Recently, the Forest Rights Act (2006) was passed to recognize and vest forest rights in forest dwelling communities. This major policy development is still in implementation, but little is known about how this devolution process will affect people's attitudes toward forests. In this paper, we analyze associations between attitudes toward state controlled forests (Reserved Forests) and (i) awareness about the Forest Right Act, (ii) attitudes toward the State Forest Department, and (iii) participation in forest management groups of mostly tribal forest dwellers in the district of Kodagu (Karnataka). We collected information with a structured questionnaire among 247 villagers living under three different land tenure and management regimes: (1) private coffee plantations, (2) Reserved Forest, and (3) National Park. The results of the multivariate analyses show that people are more likely to appreciate Reserved Forests if they have more knowledge about the Forest Rights Act and if they have positive attitudes toward the State Forest Department. A sobering result in our sample is that participation in formal forest management groups is negatively associated to attitudes toward Reserved Forests, suggesting the Joint Forest Management model doesn't necessarily help the transition from coercion to consent. Increasing local people awareness about their rights and improving their relations with the formal forest stewards remain priorities for sustainable forest management to emerge in India.

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Section: Management Regimes Land Tenure Systems and Resource Use Rimentioning

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Local Community Attitudes toward Forests Outside Protected Areas in India. Impact of Legal Awareness, Trust, and Participation.

Macura¹,

Zorondo-Rodríguez²,

Grau-Satorras³

et al. 2011

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“…In the 2000s, a key research focus was on the spatial patterns of PAs, for example, identification of priority areas [9] and species distribution modeling [30]. There was continued progress in the development of zoning methods, such as the zone of interaction [31], and multi-objective land allocation [32]. Moreover, quantization methods, such as the probability of connectivity index [33] and multi-tenure reserve networks [34] were developed.…”

Section: A Broad Review Of Models For Conservation and Sustainable Dementioning

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“…Zone of interaction (ZoI) [31,70] A ZoI is a designated area around a PA that encompasses hydrological, ecological, and socioeconomic interactions between a PA and the surrounding landscape. It expands on the BZ concept.…”

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Models and Approaches for Integrating Protected Areas with Their Surroundings: A Review of the Literature

Penabaz-Wiley

Njeru

et al. 2015

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Several studies have identified threats that originate in areas surrounding protected areas (PAs). While there have been various efforts to integrate PAs with their surroundings, considerable challenges remain. Here we summarize these efforts to date, discuss their effectiveness, and provide recommendations for future research. Based on a broad literature review of theoretical and applied approaches, we have outlined 68 models for balancing conservation and sustainable development in PAs. We comprehensively analyzed 23 of these models for integrating PAs with their surroundings. They were divided into two categories: area-oriented and process-oriented approaches. This review reveals the absolute necessity of combining these two approaches for future conservation and sustainable development of PAs.

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“…A large proportion of India's forest land is located outside the country's protected area network [25,28]. Legally, forest patches outside protected areas belong to the state.…”

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“…Recently, through Joint Forest Management and the Indian Forest Rights Act of 2006, local communities have also received some de jure (formal) rights to access and maintain forest patches [22,30]. However, forests outside protected areas are undergoing rapid changes, given their location in densely populated landscapes and face economic and political pressure [25,28,31]. Conservation of these forest patches is very important for social reasons such as livelihood dependence of local communities, as well as ecological reasons including wildlife protection.…”

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Exploring the Relationship between Remotely-Sensed Spectral Variables and Attributes of Tropical Forest Vegetation under the Influence of Local Forest Institutions

Agarwal

Rocchini

Marathe

et al. 2016

IJGI

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Conservation of forests outside protected areas is essential for maintaining forest connectivity, which largely depends on the effectiveness of local institutions. In this study, we use Landsat data to explore the relationship between vegetation structure and forest management institutions, in order to assess the efficacy of local institutions in management of forests outside protected areas. These forests form part of an important tiger corridor in Eastern Maharashtra, India. We assessed forest condition using 450 randomly placed 10 m radius circular plots in forest patches of villages with and without local institutions, to understand the impact of these institutions on forest vegetation. Tree density and species richness were significantly different between villages with and without local forest institutions, but there was no difference in tree biomass. We also found a significant difference in the relationship between tree density and NDVI between villages with and without local forest institutions. However, the relationship between species richness and NDVI did not differ significantly. The methods proposed by this study evaluate the status of forest management in a forest corridor using remotely sensed data and could be effectively used to identify the extent of vegetation health and management status.

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Interactions between protected areas and their surroundings in human-dominated tropical landscapes

Cited by 216 publications

References 37 publications

Local Community Attitudes toward Forests Outside Protected Areas in India. Impact of Legal Awareness, Trust, and Participation.

Local Community Attitudes toward Forests Outside Protected Areas in India. Impact of Legal Awareness, Trust, and Participation.

Models and Approaches for Integrating Protected Areas with Their Surroundings: A Review of the Literature

Exploring the Relationship between Remotely-Sensed Spectral Variables and Attributes of Tropical Forest Vegetation under the Influence of Local Forest Institutions

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