Transboundary protected areas as ideal tools? Analyzing the Gerês-Xurés transboundary biosphere reserve

Santamaría, Juán Manuel Trillo; Carril, Valeríà Paül i

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.12.019

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“…) as well as potentially disadvantage local communities (Petursson and Vedeld ). Thus, this approach should not be viewed as a panacea but rather as a potential conservation strategy that needs to be assessed and adapted on a case‐by‐case basis (Trillo‐Santamaría and Paül ). Our comprehensive analysis reveals important advantages in terms of area and connectivity of protected areas within border regions and highlights the significant opportunity for conservation in trans‐national landscapes of the Americas and other regions of the world where protected areas are clustered near borders.…”

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Distribution and connectivity of protected areas in the Americas facilitates transboundary conservation

Thornton

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Murray

2019

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Large‐scale anthropogenic changes to landscapes will cause species to move and shift their ranges against a backdrop of international political boundaries. Transboundary conservation efforts are therefore key to preserving intact and connected landscapes, particularly if such efforts can be implemented within the framework of protected area networks that provide for resiliency and persistence in the face of threats such as climate change. We studied the distribution, connectivity, and integrity of protected areas in regions near international borders within the Americas. We found that there is a greater proportion of land protected near vs. far from borders, with this effect extending approximately 125 km from the border. This trend was most pronounced when considering multiuse categories of protected areas in the analysis. We also found that there is greater connectivity of protected areas in border regions than more internally within countries, and relatively low rates of habitat loss within border‐situated and internal protected areas. Our results indicate that protected area networks are larger and more connected if considered in a transboundary context and that efforts to conserve species and mitigate effects of long‐term stressors like climate change will be most successful when planning includes neighboring countries. Despite a relative lack of attention to transboundary conservation in the Americas, our results suggest substantial opportunities for linking landscapes via a focus on international border regions and coordination across borders in protected areas management.

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“…, Selier et al. , Trillo‐Santamaría and Paül ). However, protected areas in other parts of the world, including Latin America and Asia, tend to be located close to international borders (Baldi et al.…”

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Distribution and connectivity of protected areas in the Americas facilitates transboundary conservation

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Murray

2019

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“…In fact, 100% of the local stakeholders interviewed described themselves as "non-decision maker" in their own land. As Trillo-Santamaría and Paül [60] emphasize, "the opinions, values, and feelings of the local population regarding a protected rural area must be a constant reason to take action". It is possible that the failure to revitalize disadvantaged rural areas and to prevent the depopulation caused by certain conservation policies, proposed in good faith, may have its origin in the lack of effective and real integration of local communities in territorial planning.…”

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Planning for Democracy in Protected Rural Areas: Application of a Voting Method in a Spanish-Portuguese Reserve

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Rodríguez²,

Martín

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The planning of protected rural areas is usually defined by institutional decision-makers without considering the preferences of the local communities that live on the land, which frequently leads to conflicts in land management. This paper proposes a voting method based on the Borda count to rank the management goals of a protected rural area. The method was applied in a Spanish-Portuguese reserve called Iberian Plateau with the aim of collecting the preferences of institutional decision-makers (government and scientists) and rural landowners (farmers and businesspersons). Regarding the conservation and development objectives, the results show differences in spatial planning when only the preferences of institutional decision-makers are taken into consideration, as opposed to when the preferences of landowners are included within the analysis.

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“…The factors that influence biosphere reserve management effectiveness occur at different scales. At an international scale, a financial crisis, included in the sub-category economy and politics (C7), was reported in the study of Trillo-Santamaría and Paül [43]. National government material and non-material support (included in the sub-categories I3 and I4) was important in the study of Devine [44].…”

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“…A diversity of actors was also covered, of which relevance varies between different factors. Examples of relevant actors in different sub-categories include: beliefs of managers of biosphere reserves (sub-category I2, [46]); material support of the national government (sub-category I3, [43]); and economic impacts in local communities (sub-category O8, [47]). In Appendix E, a scheme demonstrating how the different components of the framework can interact is given.…”

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A Social–Ecological Systems Framework as a Tool for Understanding the Effectiveness of Biosphere Reserve Management

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Biosphere reserves aim to reconciliate social and economic development with biodiversity conservation through complex spatial and governance arrangements. However, there is a generalized lack of information about how biosphere reserves are being managed and governed, and at what point their goals are being achieved, which limits a better understanding of the factors influencing biosphere reserve management effectiveness. Building on a systematic review of existing empirical studies, we developed a framework that identifies the main features related to biosphere reserve management effectiveness. We identified four main categories—context, inputs, process and outcomes—and 53 sub-categories, which interact at different scales and shape biosphere reserve effectiveness. We found that the capacity of biosphere reserves to achieve their goals is not only related to the way they are managed/governed, or to the inputs invested, but to many social and ecological contextual factors. We also identified benefits and impacts that were associated to biosphere reserves around the world. Comparing to other social–ecological system frameworks, ours provides a more inclusive approach, since it integrates the findings of studies with different research perspectives, considers a plurality of values attributed to natural resources, and the social–ecological system’s scales dynamics.

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Transboundary protected areas as ideal tools? Analyzing the Gerês-Xurés transboundary biosphere reserve

Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Distribution and connectivity of protected areas in the Americas facilitates transboundary conservation

Distribution and connectivity of protected areas in the Americas facilitates transboundary conservation

Planning for Democracy in Protected Rural Areas: Application of a Voting Method in a Spanish-Portuguese Reserve

A Social–Ecological Systems Framework as a Tool for Understanding the Effectiveness of Biosphere Reserve Management

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