Property Ownership, Resource Use, and the ‘Gift of Nature’

Ravenscroft, Neil; Church, Andrew; Gilchrist, Paul; Heys, Belinda

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“…This indicates less willingness to pay for forest conservation despite the fact that they live close to the established point of forest reserve and derive more dividends/benefits (as evidenced from income derivable contained in Table 1). This might not be distant from the perceived fact that majority of the forest community members strongly views forest resources as a free gift of nature which ought to be freely utilized with less or no fee attached to it (Ravenscroft et al, 2013). This seems to be in consonance with Adeyoju's (1974) view who worked on forest resources and communities in Nigeria and documented that people see forest as a natural resource whose products and services ought to be freely utilized without any fee or demand from the consumers.…”

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Assessment of the Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) for Forest Resources Conservation in Imo State, Nigeria

Onyema¹,

Gideon²,

Aju³

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IJAGST

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Dwindling appropriation to the forestry sub-sector has necessitated alternative finance mechanisms for sustainable forest service in developing and developed societies. Studies on Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) for forest service and nature conservation among households was conducted in a rural (Ekeugba forest community) and semi-urban (Obinze community with no forest reserve therein) regions of Imo State, SE Nigeria. A hundred sets of questionnaire were administered to households in these communities to assess willingness levels, acceptable amounts payable by the above households and likely factors which influence WTP which latter was analyzed using multiple regression at p<0.05. In the results, low percentage of WTP (14%) was recorded for the forest community who derived an average of about N4,391:81 per month/household from forest service while 30% WTP was obtained from semi-urban community who correspondingly derived an average of about N1,610:36 from forest service per month/household. Acceptable payment signified by these households was N394/month/household for semi-urban community and N100/ month/household for rural forest community which reflects 24% and 2% respectively of the above income derivative from forest utility. The more educated (education: p=0.005) and the more married that household members are (marital status: p=0.042), the more willing they are to pay for forest service/conservation in their area in the result, location (urban: p= 0.006) influenced individual's perception and thinking about natural resources. Urbanism with its associated spate of socialization, administrative structure and influence tends to add impetus to influence individual thinking and perception about development.

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Assessment of the Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) for Forest Resources Conservation in Imo State, Nigeria

Onyema¹,

Gideon²,

Aju³

et al. 2022

IJAGST

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“…Ingold, 1987;Ravenscroft, Church, Gilchrist, & Heys, 2013). What this means in practice is that although neither the land nor the animals belong to particular individuals, certain families are associated with particular locations and are tasked with maintaining their creative forces.…”

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“There are mentalities that need changing”: Constructing personhood, formulating citizenship, and performing subjectivities on a settler colonial frontier

Gombay

2015

Political Geography

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a b s t r a c tSettler colonial nations are sites of legal pluralism in which encounters between differing constructions of citizenship are formulated. These can involve customary, differentiated, and universal modes of citizenship. But the relationships amongst these are problematic, as are the ways they play out in the performance of subjectivities. To understand these dynamics, we need to think about ideas of personhood that are at their root. Based on research in Nunavik, this article focuses on how, through wildlife management, notions of personhood are being legally codified, particularly in relation to property. It examines the degree to which official ideas of personhood coincide with Indigenous ones in the construction of citizenship, and considers how these combine with property relations in the performance of subjectivities. Enforcing state wildlife regulations has altered the moral codes that define what persons are and determine how they should interact with one another. This research underscores the contradictions that arise as a result of codifying notions of personhood and citizenship in the context of settler colonialism.

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“…Consequently many participants in mountain biking develop forms of self-governance of spaces whilst the managers of lifestyle sports spaces and facilities are continually negotiating complex relationships and power relations with the sports participants, landowners of spaces and other users (Brown, 2016;King & Church, 2015;Ravenscroft et al, 2013).…”

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Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

King

Church

2017

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Lifestyle and informal sports have been recognised by policy makers as offering opportunities to increase participation in physical activity, particularly amongst hard to reach groups. Lifestyle sports are, however, double edged in their potential to achieve these goals. Their playful and non-traditional features may attract new participants less interested in traditional sports but the very liquidity of these activities may mean that the engagement of participants is fragmented and not sustained beyond a particular period in their lives. This paper presents the perspective of mountain biking user-managers; those involved in the delivery, clubs and communities of mountain bikers across the UK. Findings suggest that whilst lifestyle sport communities are dependent on the work of formalised clubs to gain access to the funding and resources they need to sustain their activities, core participants will not always want to have to liaise or become involved formally within a club structure. In addition clubs will not succeed in delivering sustained activities in line with sport policy to increase and maintain participation by relying on individual grants and without the support of an active informal user community. Accounts highlight the 2 importance of engaging informal user communities with a sense of ownership such as locals to ensure new participants are integrated and the community is able to replenish.

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Property Ownership, Resource Use, and the ‘Gift of Nature’

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Assessment of the Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) for Forest Resources Conservation in Imo State, Nigeria

Assessment of the Willingness-To-Pay (WTP) for Forest Resources Conservation in Imo State, Nigeria

“There are mentalities that need changing”: Constructing personhood, formulating citizenship, and performing subjectivities on a settler colonial frontier

Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

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