Towards an indicator system to assess equitable management in protected areas

Zafra‐Calvo, Noelia; Pascual, Unai; Brockington, Dan; Coolsaet, Brendan; Cortés-Vázquez, Jose A.; Gross-Camp, Nicole; Palomo, Ignacio; Burgess, Neil D.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2017.05.014

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“…Well-being, centered on people's capabilities to a live a life considered worthwhile, can be seen as the ultimate measure of justice (Edwards et al 2016), and forms a critical foundation for inquiries regarding injustices as well as a showing the outcomes of more or less just activities. Efforts to establish approaches and indicators for assessing justice in conservation (Dawson et al 2017, Zafra-Calvo et al 2017 should therefore be complemented by well-being inquiry. Moreover, a multidimensional vision of well-being driven by local perspectives should feature more prominently in conservation policy; for example, it is central to rights-based approaches that include the "right to development" (Springer and Campese 2011).…”

Section: Diversity and Change In Maasai Well-being Conceptionsmentioning

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Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania

Woodhouse¹,

McCabe²

2018

E&S

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ABSTRACT. The Simanjiro plains, east of Tarangire National Park in Northern Tanzania are a key dispersal area for wildlife, and are of vital importance to Maasai pastoral livelihoods, which are rapidly diversifying. Diversification is coupled with fragmentation of the rangelands as agriculture expands and multiple actors compete for land. These changes reflect transformations occurring across pastoral rangelands, and pose the broader challenge of reconciling conservation and development objectives. We propose that qualitative research using a three-dimensional human well-being framework, encompassing material, relational, and subjective aspects, can inform locally legitimate and socially just conservation. Through semistructured group interviews across four villages, we explore well-being conceptions of Maasai men and women in Simanjiro. In particular we focus on the value of understanding social complexity for conservation research in the form of (i) the heterogeneity of conceptions of well-being across gender, age groups, and villages; (ii) temporal dynamics in notions and experiences. Material assets, namely land (for grazing and agriculture) and livestock are important to people but are intertwined with other aspects of well-being. Subjective well-being is centered on concerns about future security, especially with regards to land. Autonomy and social unity (relational dimension) are key priorities. We reflect on the implications for conservation at the study site, and more broadly on how well-being can better be incorporated into policy and practice that takes social justice seriously. The diversity we find in well-being priorities and experiences shows the importance of taking a disaggregated approach that conceptualizes benefits and burdens across a range of locally important well-being components ensuring the priorities of the most marginalized groups are represented.

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Section: Diversity and Change In Maasai Well-being Conceptionsmentioning

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Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania

Woodhouse¹,

McCabe²

2018

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“…Recently, a third criterion – social equity – has gained importance in management assessments (Zafra‐Calvo et al, ): e.g. the CBD Aichi target 11 asks for 17% of inland water to be conserved through effectively and equitably managed systems of protected areas.…”

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Combining eight research areas to foster the uptake of ecosystem‐based management in fresh waters

Langhans

Domisch

Balbi

et al. 2019

Aquatic Conservation

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Freshwater ecosystems are under a constant risk of being irreversibly damaged by human pressures that threaten their biodiversity, the sustainability of ecosystem services (ESs), and human well‐being. Despite the implementation of various environmental regulations, the challenges of safeguarding freshwater assets have so far not been tackled successfully. A promising way forward to stop the loss of freshwater biodiversity and to sustain freshwater‐based ESs is by implementing ecosystem‐based management (EBM), an environmental planning and adaptive management approach that jointly considers social and ecological needs. Responsible for considerable recent success in sustainably managing and conserving marine ecosystems, EBM has not yet been championed for fresh waters. A major reason for the delayed uptake of EBM in fresh waters is likely to be its complexity, requiring planners to be familiar with the latest developments in a range of different research areas. EBM would therefore benefit from becoming more tangible to receive attention on the ground. To facilitate uptake, eight core research areas for EBM and their innovations are introduced, and the way in which they feed into the workflow that guides the EBM planning stage is explained. The workflow links biodiversity distributions with ES supply‐and‐demand modelling and SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely) target planning, including scenario‐ and cross‐realm perspectives, the prioritization of management alternatives, spatial prioritization of biodiversity conservation and ES areas, and the quantification of uncertainties. Given the extensive resources, time, and technical capacity required to implement the full workflow, a light and an ultralight version of the workflow are also provided. Applied in concert, the eight well‐known research areas allow for better planning and operationalizing, and eventually for implementing EBM in freshwater ecosystems. EBM has great potential to increase public acceptance by introducing the consideration of human needs and aspirations into typically biodiversity‐driven conservation and management approaches. This will ultimately improve the integrity of freshwater ecosystems.

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“…This facilitates the sharing of power, democratically debated decisions, maintenance of dignity, and the creation of representative plans and actions. Power-and benefit-sharing mechanisms can help ensure that the socioeconomic benefits and burdens of conservation and environmental management are distributed in a fair manner, and that rights and responsibilities are shared and assigned commensurate to circumstances (Bennett, Teh et al, 2017;Pascual et al, 2014;Zafra-Calvo et al, 2017). Finally, equitable governance is safeguarded when laws and policies are present to protect local rights and tenure, ensure that consent is freely given, and groups have access to justice to defend against incursions F I G U R E 1 A practical framework for understanding the objectives, attributes, and elements of environmental governance or facilitate reparations and/or compensation for past wrongs (Bennett, Teh et al, 2017;FAO, 2012).…”

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Environmental governance: A practical framework to guide design, evaluation, and analysis

Bennett¹,

Satterfield²

2018

Preprint

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Governance is one of the most important factors for ensuring effective environmental management and conservation actions. Yet, there is still a relative paucity of comprehensive and practicable guidance that can be used to frame the evaluation, design, and analysis of systems of environmental governance. This conceptual review and synthesis article seeks to addresses this problem through resituating the broad body of governance literature into a practical framework for environmental governance. Our framework builds on a rich history of governance scholarship to propose that environmental governance has four general aims or objectives -to be effective, to be equitable, to be responsive, and to be robust. Each of these four objectives need to be considered simultaneously across the institutional, structural, and procedural elements of environmental governance. Through a review of the literature, we developed a set of attributes for each of these objectives and relate these to the overall capacity, functioning, and performance of environmental governance. Our aim is to provide a practical and adaptable framework that can be applied to the design, evaluation, and analysis of environmental governance in different social and political contexts, to diverse environmental problems and modes of governance, and at a range of scales.

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Towards an indicator system to assess equitable management in protected areas

Cited by 130 publications

References 53 publications

Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania

Well-being and conservation: diversity and change in visions of a good life among the Maasai of northern Tanzania

Combining eight research areas to foster the uptake of ecosystem‐based management in fresh waters

Environmental governance: A practical framework to guide design, evaluation, and analysis

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