The challenge of participatory natural resource management with mobile herders at the scale of a Sub-Saharan African protected area

Binot, Aurélie; Hanon, Laurence; Joiris, Daou Véronique; Dulieu, Dominique

doi:10.1007/s10531-009-9664-9

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“…Over the course of the entire project, we exchanged with local managers and biologists. If new zoning for the protected area is to be implemented in the region, public consultations should be carried on as well to take into account the needs and requests of the local population and facilitate its acceptance, as shown in Figure 2 earlier (Binot et al, 2009). Local managers of the Bahr Salamat Reserve and the GZE would need to co‐construct the goals and the zoning through concertation and dialogue, taking into account socio‐economic data.…”

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Planning from scratch: A new modelling approach for designing protected areas in remote, data‐poor regions

Ducros,

Devillers,

Messager

et al. 2023

Journal of Applied Ecology

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Human pressure on ecosystems has strongly increased over the last decades and now impacts even the most remote regions. To help mitigate these impacts, it is crucial to designate protected areas in regions that retain a high level of ecological integrity. However, ecological data remain scarce for many such areas, making the systematic design of new protected zones challenging. Following a request from local managers, we developed an original methodological approach to help design new zoning for a pre‐existing protected area in a remote, data‐poor Sahelian wetland of southern Chad, a vast area rich in biodiversity and exploited by diverse human activities. The method involved first collecting extensive aerial survey data (6252 records) on birds and mammals and then analysing this through a combination of distance sampling and density surface modelling. The biodiversity data, combined with ecological predictors, helped model species distribution layers that were then incorporated with socio‐economic constraints into the systematic conservation planning tool Marxan. This approach produced an array of protected zoning options that met three levels of conservation objectives set by experts, corresponding to proportions of individuals from given species to protect in the proposed protected area. Frequent exchanges with local managers allowed the analyses to be refined, resulting in seven potential scenarios to be considered for conservation purposes. Synthesis and applications. In a context of high data scarcity, lack of access and short‐term conservation objectives, this combined approach that optimizes newly obtained data via a suite of modelling tools can facilitate identifying and protecting natural areas in regions most in need of urgent conservation policy.

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Planning from scratch: A new modelling approach for designing protected areas in remote, data‐poor regions

Ducros,

Devillers,

Messager

et al. 2023

Journal of Applied Ecology

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“…Rules appear to be more complicated when protected areas are located next to land used by mobile populations such as semi-nomadic herders, as shown by Binot et al (2009). Careful land tenure negotiation here becomes crucial, as is the need to involve stakeholders who hold power, and may not be easy to identify at first sight.…”

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Natural resource management by rural citizens in developing countries: innovations still required

Torquebiau

Taylor

2009

Biodivers Conserv

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We summarise the main issues related to Community-Based Natural Resource Management which were discussed at an International Workshop organized in Niamey, Niger, in March 2008. The objective of the workshop was to compare and contrast different development-oriented biodiversity conservation and natural resource management approaches as they exist across Africa. These approaches were explored following (1) the fundamentals of natural resource management in relation to local development and livelihoods and (2) the multi-functional nature of land use. The major topics subject to debate were the dichotomy between strictly protected areas and conservation areas including human activities; the importance of legitimate, people-centred conservation, as opposed to legal (drawn from the law) conservation; the key role of market instruments, participatory approaches, interdisciplinarity and local governance; and finally the strong relationships between agriculture and biodiversity conservation, especially at landscape level. We then provide a short summary of the 12 papers addressing the above topics and selected for the

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Rural Tourism Partnerships and Actor Mobility

Saxena

2013

Journal of Tourism Research

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In this paper, I examine actor mobility within the context of rural tourism partnerships (RTPs). The term 'actor' refers to those who have a stake in tourism planning, promotion and development such as policy makers, businesses, non-profit making sector and community groups. Mobility is embedded in personal and social histories of actors as well as the policy framework that impacts their daily lives and informs their motives for being (dis)associated with RTPs. While exploring how actors' journeys transform rural localities' socio-economic fabric, I find the writings of Lefebvre and de Certeau particularly useful because of their focus on counter-hegemonic practices that shape the 'everyday life'. Given that most rural societies in current times comprise an intricate mix of long-term residents, seasonal-home owners and migrants, each with their distinct set of life stories and value preferences with regard to their place of dwelling, my thrust in this paper on actor mobility is likely to identify new areas of future research on RTPs.

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The challenge of participatory natural resource management with mobile herders at the scale of a Sub-Saharan African protected area

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Planning from scratch: A new modelling approach for designing protected areas in remote, data‐poor regions

Planning from scratch: A new modelling approach for designing protected areas in remote, data‐poor regions

Natural resource management by rural citizens in developing countries: innovations still required

Rural Tourism Partnerships and Actor Mobility

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