Using abiotic data for conservation assessments over extensive regions: quantitative methods applied across New South Wales, Australia

Pressey, Robert L.; Hager, Tatjana; Ryan, Kath; Schwarz, Johannes; Wall, Sandra; Ferrier, Simon; Creaser, P.

doi:10.1016/s0006-3207(00)00050-1

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“…Although our approach to measuring vulnerability bias was tailored to the particular categorical data available for the Western Division (Pressey and Taffs, accompanying ms) and will not be generally appropriate, the same idea can be implemented with quite different data and methods (e.g. Pressey et al, 2000). There is also scope for measuring both efficiency and vulnerability bias before areas are formally protected, just as Wright et al (1994) measured the relative contribution to conservation targets of potential national parks in Idaho.…”

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Sampling of land types by protected areas: three measures of effectiveness applied to western New South Wales

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Taffs

2001

Biological Conservation

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“…Mark, 1985;Henderson, 1992;Beardsley and Stoms, 1993 ;Barnard et al, 1998;Pressey et al, 2000). For two reasons, efficiency is not informative about this sort of bias.…”

Section: Vulnerability Biasmentioning

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Sampling of land types by protected areas: three measures of effectiveness applied to western New South Wales

Pressey

Taffs

2001

Biological Conservation

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“…Research for other countries, both western and non-Western, indicates similar patterns (Aiken 1994;Barnard et al, 1998;Dahlström, 2003;Ranta et al, 1998;Knight, 1999;Pressey et al, 2000). Conservation has generally been residual to other competing land uses, and this broad process is continuing.…”

Section: Conservation Lands Policymentioning

confidence: 89%

“…Despite this increased attention to "biodiversity" as a criteria for conservation today, and an earlier focus (since the 1940s), on sampling the natural environments of the state, quantitative research by conservation scientists (Pressey et al, 2000) demonstrates that for the majority of NSW, conservation reserves are "most representative of land with least potential for commercial uses" (p. 67). These reserves are also characterised by high relief (they are rugged or mountainous) and have low potential for intensive land use (agriculture or housing).…”

Section: Conservation Lands Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Nature: Collaboration and Conflict Between Aboriginal and Conservation Interests in New South Wales, Australia

Adams

2004

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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Faced with the paradox of a large global increase in conservation reserves and a simultaneous global decrease in actual effective protection for biodiversity, conservation scientists and policymakers are questioning established conservation theory and practice. I argue that the fundamental premises, the foundational myths, for Western-style conservation also need to be questioned. The statistics on Indigenous land claims, and conservation reserves, in Australia and more specifically the state of New South Wales (NSW), reveal a landscape of policy failure in both arenas. Focusing on Australia, I use spatial analysis and policy histories to demonstrate converging trajectories of land use priorities for conservation needs and Indigenous peoples' needs. This intersection, while generating much potential for conflict, also creates new political landscapes. A combination of spatial and cultural analyses can create a clear picture of new "operational landscapes", and an understanding of the (sometimes) complementary values of different cultural groups negotiating about these landscapes. From the basis that environmental problems are fundamentally social problems, this paper contributes to explorations of new paradigms supporting new social-ecological relationships, and new relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples. IntroductionSince the declaration of national parks at Yosemite in 1864 and Yellowstone in 1872, the concept of national parks as the centerpiece of nature conservation policy has spread across the globe. This concept is embedded in Western paradigms, both scientifically and culturally. The last decade has seen increasing challenge, and change, to this concept, including interactions with indigenous peoples, who may operate from quite different paradigms about the relationships between people and nature.Examination of nature/culture issues has been a major preoccupation of geographers and others over the last 10 years (for example, Cronon, 1995; Braun & Castree, 1998;Head, 2000;Eden, 2001;Demeritt, 2002). Geographers are also exploring issues in indigenous and postcolonial geographies (Peters & Wolf-Keddie 1995; Howitt, Connell & Hirsch, 1996; Baker, Davies & Young, 2001;Nash, 2002). Some of this work has considered conservation management (Proctor & Pincetl, 1996;Katz, 1998;Zimmerer, 2000), and some has considered interactions between indigenous people AbstractFaced with the paradox of a large global increase in conservation reserves and a simultaneous global decrease in actual effective protection for biodiversity, conservation scientists and policymakers are questioning established conservation theory and practice. I argue that the fundamental premises, the foundational myths, for Western-style conservation also need to be questioned. The statistics on Indigenous land claims, and conservation reserves, in Australia and more specifically the state of New South Wales (NSW), reveal a landscape of policy failure in both arenas. Focusing on Australia, I use spatial analysis and poli...

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“…Formal protection of natural resources in reserves has tended to be ad hoc favouring the biodiversity of areas that are least valuable for commercial use, in public tenure but earnest to reserve, most charismatic, and with least need for protection [19,11] which is quite sentimental to protection strategy. Therefore methods for identifying priority areas are only one aspect of overall biological conservation planning and management [10,4].…”

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Zonation of Conservation Priority Sites for Effective Management of Tropical Forests in India: A Value-Based Conservation Approach

Soosairaj¹

2007

Appl Ecol Env Res

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Abstract. Zonation of conservation sites has been modelled by overlaying different layers such as vegetation type, species richness, endangered, endemic, economic status maps and socio-cultural value map using remote sensing and GIS in the Pacchaimalai hills part of Eastern Ghats in India that is spread to an area of 527.61 sq. km. These hills are situated at the mid regions of Tamil Nadu with latitudes 11°09'00" to 11°27'00" N and longitudes 78°28'00" to 78°49'00" E. They harbour eight vegetation types of which tropical dry deciduous forests are widespread with rich diversity. As in other hills, the forest cover is under severe anthropogenic pressure in spite of being protected as a reserved forest. This study proposes about 0.93% (4.95 sq. km) of the total area of the Pacchaimalai hills for immediate conservation. The effectiveness of the proposal would be based on the attitude and awareness of local people towards vegetation who inhabit the areas adjacent to proposed sites and the effective monitoring by foresters and participatory approach of both the people and forest authorities to accomplish the goal of the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Using abiotic data for conservation assessments over extensive regions: quantitative methods applied across New South Wales, Australia

Cited by 170 publications

References 59 publications

Sampling of land types by protected areas: three measures of effectiveness applied to western New South Wales

Sampling of land types by protected areas: three measures of effectiveness applied to western New South Wales

Negotiating Nature: Collaboration and Conflict Between Aboriginal and Conservation Interests in New South Wales, Australia

Zonation of Conservation Priority Sites for Effective Management of Tropical Forests in India: A Value-Based Conservation Approach

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