Sacred Forest, Hunting, and Conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Wadley, Reed L.; Colfer, C.J.P.

doi:10.1023/b:huec.0000028084.30742.d0

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“…Johnson and Grivetti (2002) provide a case study of responses to decreasing availability of wild vegetables in Thailand, where they found that women collected and transplanted many wild species into their fields and gardens. Culturally bound food taboos and rules around where, when and what to hunt, have been suggested to support sustainable use of bush-meat (Ross et al 1978;Wadley andColfer 2004Colding andFolke 2001).…”

Section: Sustainability Of Wild Food Use and Landscape Managementmentioning

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Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape

Thilsted²,

et al. 2015

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This paper examines the literature on how biodiversity contributes to improved and diversified diets in developing countries. We assess the current state of evidence on how wild and cultivated biodiversity in all forms is related to healthy diets and nutrition, and examine how economic factors, knowledge and social norms interact with availability of biodiversity to influence both production and consumption choices. The paper identifies areas where evidence is lacking and ways to build synergies between nutrition-sensitive approaches and efforts to ensure sustainability of food systems and the natural environment.

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Section: Sustainability Of Wild Food Use and Landscape Managementmentioning

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Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape

Thilsted²,

et al. 2015

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“…They occur in various forms and at various spatial scales, such as a single plant species Folke 2001, Kufer et al 2006), burial grounds (Mgumia andOba 2003, Wadley andColfer 2004), sacred groves Vartak 1974, Malhotra 2001), and even whole mountains or lakes used for religious worship (Maharana et al 2000, Castro and Aldunate 2003, Jain et al 2004, Xu et al 2005. Sacred sites have been under the protection of local people for their spiritual value for generations and might be the oldest forms of protected areas in human history (Dudley et al 2009).…”

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Tibetan Sacred Sites: Understanding the Traditional Management System and Its Role in Modern Conservation

Shen¹,

Lü²,

Li³

et al. 2012

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ABSTRACT. Sacred sites are based on indigenous culture and traditional practices that value land and lives, and are considered to be of significant contribution in biodiversity conservation. However, there is a lack of understanding about how these traditional systems function (i.e., the distribution and size of sacred sites, their management and current status), especially for those sites within the Tibetan region. From 2004 to 2007, we investigated 213 sacred mountains, a major form of Tibetan sacred site, in western China, and documented their traditional management system. We mapped 154 sacred mountains within a GIS and estimated their average size was 25.9 km 2 (range 0.6-208.4 km 2 ), with sacred mountains of greater religious significance covering greater areas. Monasteries had an essential role in protecting sacred mountains; 73.1% assigning specific personnel to manage their sacred mountains, and 63.9% patrolling their mountains. Official nature reserves had a remarkable spatial overlap with sacred mountains, but few reserves had established collaboration with local communities or monasteries on the land resource management. We conclude that Tibetan sacred mountains could have an important role in conservation, not only because they cover a considerable area, but also because of strong local participation in conservation of sacred mountains. We believe that Tibetan sacred sites are a landscape-level conservation attribute. To promote conservation in western China, Tibetan sacred sites need to be recognized and incorporated in the formal conservation network, and local communities should be empowered to participate in protecting and managing their sacred sites.

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“…For example, the suggestion that the world of spirit should be part of the local REDD? decision-making process may not be deemed necessary by some but vital to indigenous peoples who have a connection to the forest beyond its economic value (Wadley and Colfer 2004). This point follows on from the discussion about the quality and extent of participation of the numerous stakeholder groups involved in REDD?…”

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Legitimacy in REDD+ governance in Indonesia

Glover

Schroeder

2017

Int Environ Agreements

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This paper addresses the question of legitimacy in REDD? governance in Indonesia. It develops a legitimacy framework that builds on elements of Scharpf (J Eur Pub Policy 4(1):18-36, 1997) input and output legitimacy concept and the political economy lens described by Brockhaus and Angelsen (Analysing REDD?: Challenges and choices, CIFOR, Bogor, 2012). Using data collected through key informant interviews and focus groups, we identify and explore stakeholder perceptions of legitimacy. The analysis reveals a complex interplay between input and output legitimacy, finding that state, nonstate and hybrid actors perceive output legitimacy (i.e. project outcomes) as highly dependent on the level of input legitimacy achieved during the governance process. Nonstate actors perceive proxies for input legitimacy, such as participation and inclusion of local people, as goals in themselves. In the main, they perceive inclusion to be integral to the empowerment of local people. They perceive output legitimacy as less important because of the intangibility of REDD? outcomes at this stage in the process. The findings also highlight the challenges associated with measuring the legitimacy of REDD? governance in Indonesia.

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Sacred Forest, Hunting, and Conservation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Cited by 118 publications

References 39 publications

Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape

Improving diets with wild and cultivated biodiversity from across the landscape

Tibetan Sacred Sites: Understanding the Traditional Management System and Its Role in Modern Conservation

Legitimacy in REDD+ governance in Indonesia

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