The Extraordinary Value of Wilderness Areas in the Anthropocene

Allan, James R.; Possingham, Hugh P.; Venter, Oscar; Biggs, Duan; Watson, James E.M.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-409548-9.12427-3

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“…[31] Conservation can therefore play a role in protecting both the environment and the rights of IPs, LCs, and ADs who collectively steward them. [154] In the absence of secure collective rights over traditional lands and resources, [100] rapid expansion of strictly managed or exclusionary conservation strategies risks generating inequality, human rights abuses, and conflicts over land. [98,155] Without the holistic and culturally appropriate integration of scientific and traditional ecological knowledge systems into global policy frameworks, reductionist technocratic conservation approaches could prevail.…”

Section: Box 3: Preliminary Findings From Comparison Of Deforestation Rates: Need For More Rigorous Analysismentioning

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Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth's biological and cultural diversity?

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2020

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This report is informed by the imperative to prevent the collapse of biodiversity while respecting the tenure and human rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples. It seeks to highlight the risks and opportunities arising out of the proposed expansion of conservation areas by asking the following questions: 1) How many people live within important biodiversity conservation areas, including existing protected areas that could be affected by future conservation action required to meet biodiversity protection imperatives? 2) What is the distribution of people living in important biodiversity conservation areas according to the income status of countries? 3) As a notional exercise, what could be the potential financial cost of exclusionary conservation practices applied to all high biodiversity value terrestrial areas? 4) What are the costs and benefits of community rights-based conservation as an alternate pathway for the expansion of areas under conservation to meet biodiversity goals? 5) To what extent would recognizing and enforcing the collective tenure rights of Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afro-descendant Peoples contribute towards area-based targets for conservation?

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Section: Box 3: Preliminary Findings From Comparison Of Deforestation Rates: Need For More Rigorous Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth's biological and cultural diversity?

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2020

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“…Nonetheless, the contemporary conservation science literature calls for its preservation (e.g. Venter et al 2016;Watson et al 2016;Watson et al 2018a;Watson et al 2018b;Di Marco et al 2019;Allan et al 2020).…”

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Reimagining the wilderness ethic to include “people and nature”

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The concept of the "wilderness ethic" is at an impasse. Despite calls for action to conserve wilderness, any notion of wilderness thinking still resides outside of most major global environmental policy mechanisms. We posit the wilderness ethic must evolve with haste, to better reflect contemporary conservation framings; that is a "people and nature" focused approach. Only once the central role and rights of people are incorporated into the traditional wilderness ethic, will policy better allow the navigation of pathways towards sustainability.

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“…Since the risk analysis exercise is limited to only two CES categories, this result is in our opinion a bare minimum of the various other negative impacts that may result if all proposed wind turbines are developed. Recent reviews agree that the full ramifications of certain industrial-scale renewable energy developments are poorly studied and social impacts may be high, especially within protected areas and wild land areas [79][80][81]. Moreover, other similarly widespread resource development problems such as touristic and urban sprawl, road-building, mining and small hydro-electric plant developments could also be used to explore conflict risk with CES attributes in protected areas, in a similar manner.…”

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“…A landscape approach. More attention is needed to landscape-scale research and conservation, especially targeting both highly valued cultural landscapes [3,112] and wilderness (or wild land) areas [81,113]. This ties in with EU policy requirements for high nature value farming [114] and the many modern changes and challenges to European landscapes [79,115,116].…”

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Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Natura 2000 Network: Introducing Proxy Indicators and Conflict Risk in Greece

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Within the ecosystem services framework, cultural ecosystem services (CES) have rarely been applied in state-wide surveys of protected area networks. Through a review of available data and online research, we present 22 potential proxy indicators of non-material benefits people may obtain from nature in Natura sites in Greece. Despite the limitations due to data scarcity, this first distance-based study screens a recently expanded protected area system (446 Natura sites) providing steps towards an initial CES capacity review, site prioritization and data gap screening. Results identify hot spot Natura sites for CES values and wider areas of importance for the supply of CES. Additionally, a risk analysis mapping exercise explores the potential risk of conflict in the Natura sites, due to proposed wind farm developments. Α number of sites that may suffer serious degradation of CES values due to the large number of proposed wind turbines within these protected areas is identified, with 26% of Greece’s Natura sites showing serious and high risk of degradation of their aesthetic values. Screening-level survey exercises such as these may play an important role in advancing conservation effectiveness by increasing the appreciation of the multiple benefits provided by Natura protected areas. Based on this review, we propose recommendations through an adaptive approach to CES inventory and research initiatives in the protected area network.

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The Extraordinary Value of Wilderness Areas in the Anthropocene

Cited by 6 publications

References 108 publications

Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth's biological and cultural diversity?

Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth's biological and cultural diversity?

Reimagining the wilderness ethic to include “people and nature”

Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Natura 2000 Network: Introducing Proxy Indicators and Conflict Risk in Greece

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