Local institutions: Regulation and valuation of forest use—Evidence from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Mehring, Marion; Seeberg-Elverfeldt, Christina; Koch, Sebastian; Barkmann, Jan; Schwarze, Stefan; Stoll-Kleemann, Susanne

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.01.001

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“…This so called "Dongi-dongi" conflict, where settlers occupied and deforested the area, implies that people sought to reclaim a balance in the dominationrepression power imbalance (Adiwibowo 2005). This is also in line with Mehring et al (2011) who point to significant forest exploitation within the core area of LLBR after the political change. However, overall deforestation in the LLBR cannot solely be explained by this phenomenon.…”

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How Effective is the Buffer Zone? Linking Institutional Processes with Satellite Images from a Case Study in the Lore Lindu Forest Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia

Mehring¹,

Stoll-Kleemann²

2011

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ABSTRACT. Biosphere reserves seek to reconcile nature conservation with local development goals, for example by delineating buffer zones of sustainable resource use around core areas with primary conservation objectives. Here we evaluate buffer zone effectiveness in reducing deforestation within the Lore Lindu Biosphere Reserve in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Socio-economic and remote-sensing data were combined in an integrated approach. We applied a systematic qualitative social research design and carried out in-depth interviews with local, sub-national, and national authorities. Data collected through the interviews were used to interpret satellite images: (1) spatially, that is, forest cover change in the buffer zone versus the core area and, (2) over time, that is, forest cover change as a response to changing management regimes and socio-economic processes in the region. For this purpose a time series of LANDSAT scenes from 1972 to 2007 was used to classify homogeneous areas of forest cover to detect deforestation. According to the satellite image analysis, the buffer zone in Lore Lindu was ineffective at reducing forest cover clearing in the core area between 1972 and 2007. Since management establishment in 1998, the deforestation rate within the core area even increased fourfold. The gathered data suggest that there are three main institutional drivers to account for this ineffectiveness: (1) Low awareness of boundary demarcation among the villagers due to the lack of participation during management and boundary establishment, (2) The fall of the national president Suharto in 1998, which subsequently triggered deforestation activities in the core area, as the park was perceived to be the local branch of the national, suppressive regime, and (3) The lack of implementation of the biosphere reserve concept at the national level, which leads to unclear responsibilities in the buffer zone as the legal backing for any cooperation in the buffer zone is lacking. Although it appears that the forest status in Lore Lindu is still good compared to other regions in Indonesia, attention must be given to the protection of the core area. We thus conclude that the biosphere reserve concept needs to be strengthened in Indonesia. Its implementation at the national level, including adoption of clearly defined regulations, would substantially contribute to reducing negative impacts on biosphere reserve management through, for example, carefully designed awareness raising programs.

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How Effective is the Buffer Zone? Linking Institutional Processes with Satellite Images from a Case Study in the Lore Lindu Forest Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia

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2011

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“…Multidisciplinary approaches that incorporate traditional and scientific knowledge are increasingly being adopted to better understand, manage, and conserve biodiversity and natural resources (Drew and Henne 2006, Fraser et al 2006, Mehring et al 2011, Ruiz-Mallén and Esteve 2013. Such approaches are particularly attractive in northern regions, where effective longterm monitoring based solely on western science can be very challenging for economic and logistic reasons, and where sampling or monitoring can be conducted only intermittently or seasonally (Ferguson and Messier 1997, Berkes 2012, Thornton and Scheer 2012, Polfus et al 2014.…”

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Traditional ecological knowledge reveals the extent of sympatric lake trout diversity and habitat preferences

Marin¹,

Coon²,

Fraser³

2017

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. 2017. Traditional ecological knowledge reveals the extent of sympatric lake trout diversity and habitat preferences. Ecology and Society 22 (2) ABSTRACT. Multidisciplinary approaches to conservation have become increasingly important in northern regions. Because many First Nations communities have relied on freshwater fish populations for essential food over millennia, community members often possess traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). We consulted Cree First Nation fishers to collate TEK for one of Canada's most important subsistence fishes (lake trout) in Québec's largest lake (Mistassini, 2335 km 2 ). We further integrated TEK with what was regionally known scientifically about the species, toward effective fisheries conservation. Cree fishers described a richer diversity of sympatric lake trout forms than did scientific research that was conducted simultaneously, based on color, size, fin accent patterns, scale texture and depth, and spatial preferences. Traditional ecological knowledge also provided descriptions of lake trout seasonal movements, spawning locations, and reproductive timing that were not captured by scientific research, and highlighted several concerns or temporal changes of import to future management initiatives. Our study highlights the wealth of TEK on harvested species in First Nations communities. It further illustrates how TEK can reveal not only distinctions within species of relevance to natural resource management and taxonomy, but also informs upon the extent of such population differentiation, thereby providing important conservation benefits for remote and northern regions.

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“…These initiatives are sometimes developed to respond to the failure of top-down conservation models (Berkes 2004(Berkes , 2007 or as a strategy to reinforce conservation initiatives led by selfgoverning communities . In both contexts, complex institutional mechanisms are designed to allocate management authority and responsibility among a plurality of actors (Dudley 2008), which can in turn draw upon both traditional ecological knowledge and scientific knowledge to define specific conservation strategies , Mehring et al 2011). …”

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Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Implications for Social-Ecological Resilience

Ruíz-Mallén¹,

Corbera²

2013

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ABSTRACT. Our review highlights how traditional ecological knowledge influences people's adaptive capacity to socialecological change and identifies a set of mechanisms that contribute to such capacity in the context of community-based biodiversity conservation initiatives. Twenty-three publications, including twenty-nine case studies, were reviewed with the aim of investigating how local knowledge, community-based conservation, and resilience interrelate in social-ecological systems. We highlight that such relationships have not been systematically addressed in regions where a great number of community conservation initiatives are found; and we identify a set of factors that foster people's adaptive capacity to social-ecological change and a number of social processes that, in contrast, undermine such capacity and the overall resilience of the socialecological system. We suggest that there is a need to further investigate how climate variability and other events affect the joint evolution of conservation outcomes and traditional ecological knowledge, and there is a need to expand the current focus on social factors to explain changes in traditional ecological knowledge and adaptive capacity towards a broader approach that pays attention to ecosystem dynamics and environmental change.

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Local institutions: Regulation and valuation of forest use—Evidence from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

Cited by 39 publications

References 24 publications

How Effective is the Buffer Zone? Linking Institutional Processes with Satellite Images from a Case Study in the Lore Lindu Forest Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia

How Effective is the Buffer Zone? Linking Institutional Processes with Satellite Images from a Case Study in the Lore Lindu Forest Biosphere Reserve, Indonesia

Traditional ecological knowledge reveals the extent of sympatric lake trout diversity and habitat preferences

Community-Based Conservation and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Implications for Social-Ecological Resilience

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