Introduction: Human migration to protected area edges in Africa and Latin America: Questioning large-scale statistical analysis

Hoffman, David; Fay, Derick; Joppa, Lucas

doi:10.4103/0972-4923.79177

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“…), calling into question generalizations made at particularly large scales (Hoffman et al. ). For instance, results of site‐based analyses of migration mechanisms near PAs largely refute that population growth is due to PAs simply attracting migrants.…”

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Human Migration, Protected Areas, and Conservation Outreach in Tanzania

Salerno

Mulder

Kefauver

2014

Conservation Biology

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A recent discussion debates the extent of human in-migration around protected areas (PAs) in the tropics. One proposed argument is that rural migrants move to bordering areas to access conservation outreach benefits. A counter proposal maintains that PAs have largely negative effects on local populations and that outreach initiatives even if successful present insufficient benefits to drive in-migrationPalabras Clave: conservación basada en la comunidad,África Oriental, parques nacionales, crecimiento de la población, migrantes rurales

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“…We therefore argue that more informed approaches to the specific relationship between outreach and migration are needed before making conclusions that have direct relevance to how and where conservation and community development practices are conducted (Hoffman et al. ).…”

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Human Migration, Protected Areas, and Conservation Outreach in Tanzania

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Mulder

Kefauver

2014

Conservation Biology

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“…Tensions can arise from eviction from PAs through the loss of rights and privileges, corruption, disruption in land tenure, little or no compensation, and unwelcome attention (Hoffman et al 2011, Goldman 2011. PAs can also attract migrants and stimulate land-use change (Wittemyer et al 2008), serve as economic engines and prompt development projects directed at poverty alleviation (Ferraro et al 2011), and provide important ecosystem services.…”

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Perceptions of risk in communities near parks in an African biodiversity hotspot

Hartter

Dowhaniuk

MacKenzie

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Understanding conservation and livelihood threats in park landscapes is important to informing conservation policy. To identify threats, we examined perceived risks of residents living near three national parks in Uganda. We used cross-sectional household data to document, rank, and measure severity of perceived risks. Three risk categories, grouped into protected area, climate, and health, were cited by 80 % of respondents and received the highest severity scores. Elevation, proximity to the park, local forest loss, recent population change, and measures of poverty were the most important variables in predicting whether or not an individual identified these risks as the most or second most severe risk. Health issues were cited throughout the landscape, while problems attributed to climate (mainly insufficient rainfall) were reported to be most severe farther from the park. Increased population density was associated with increased perceived risk of health challenges, but decreased perceived risks attributed to the park and climate. Participatory risk mapping provides the opportunity to make standardized comparisons across sites, to help identify commonalities and differences, as a first step to examining the degree to which conservation management might address some of these local challenges and where mitigation techniques might be transferable between different sites or conflict scenarios.

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“…Other studies in the states of Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado, USA, also indicate that household location choices have important implications on wildlife and their conservation (Theobald et al 1997, Peterson et al 2008. The spatial relationships between household location and wildlife habitat are highly salient to the management of protected areas because these areas may attract human settlement (Wittemyer et al 2008, but see Hoffman et al 2011). …”

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Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation

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Hull³

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ABSTRACT. Conserving wildlife while simultaneously meeting the resource needs of a growing human population is a major sustainability challenge. As such, using combined social and environmental perspectives to understand how people and wildlife are interlinked, together with the mechanisms that may weaken or strengthen those linkages, is of utmost importance. However, such integrated information is lacking. To help fill this information gap, we describe an integrated coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) approach for analyzing the patterns, causes, and consequences of changes in wildlife population and habitat, human population and land use, and their interactions. Using this approach, we synthesize research in two sites, Wolong Nature Reserve in China and Chitwan National Park in Nepal, to explicate key relationships between people and two globally endangered wildlife conservation icons, the giant panda and the Bengal tiger. This synthesis reveals that local resident characteristics such as household socioeconomics and demography, as well as community-level attributes such as resource management organizations, affect wildlife and their habitats in complex and even countervailing ways. Human impacts on wildlife and their habitats are in turn modifying the suite of ecosystem services that they provide to local residents in both sites, including access to forest products and cultural values. These interactions are further complicated by human and natural disturbance (e.g., civil wars, earthquakes), feedbacks (including policies), and telecouplings (socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances) that increasingly link the focal systems with other distant systems. We highlight several important implications of using a CHANS approach for wildlife research and conservation that is useful not only in China and Nepal but in many other places around the world facing similar challenges.

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Introduction: Human migration to protected area edges in Africa and Latin America: Questioning large-scale statistical analysis

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Human Migration, Protected Areas, and Conservation Outreach in Tanzania

Human Migration, Protected Areas, and Conservation Outreach in Tanzania

Perceptions of risk in communities near parks in an African biodiversity hotspot

Coupled human and natural systems approach to wildlife research and conservation

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