Values and Benefits of Protected Areas

Stolton, Sue; Dudley, Nigel; Çokçalışkan, Başak Avcıoğlu; Hunter, Danny; Ivanić, Kasandra-Zorica; Kanga, Erustus; Kettunen, Marianne; Kumagai, Yoshitaka; Maxted, Nigel; Senior, J.; Wong, Ming Hung; Keenleyside, Karen; Mulrooney, D.; Waithaka, John

doi:10.22459/pagm.04.2015.06

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“…We recognize that a more complete evaluation of well-being impacts of PAs would include additional aspects we could not capture here because of limitations in the availability of high-resolution, global datasets. These include additional components of multidimensional well-being (19), social equity (37), historical displacements and exclusions (38), the opportunity costs of PAs (39), environmental governance (40), and less-tangible PA benefits that are difficult to quantify (19,41). In addition, our results are based on the location of current PAs, meaning that there is no guarantee that they will hold if PA expansion occurs in areas that are systematically different from existing locations.…”

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Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

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Protected areas (PAs) are fundamental for biodiversity conservation, yet their impacts on nearby residents are contested. We synthesized environmental and socioeconomic conditions of >87,000 children in >60,000 households situated either near or far from >600 PAs within 34 developing countries. We used quasi-experimental hierarchical regression to isolate the impact of living near a PA on several aspects of human well-being. Households near PAs with tourism also had higher wealth levels (by 17%) and a lower likelihood of poverty (by 16%) than similar households living far from PAs. Children under 5 years old living near multiple-use PAs with tourism also had higher height-for-age scores (by 10%) and were less likely to be stunted (by 13%) than similar children living far from PAs. For the largest and most comprehensive socioeconomic-environmental dataset yet assembled, we found no evidence of negative PA impacts and consistent statistical evidence to suggest PAs can positively affect human well-being.

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Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

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“…climate, water quality, erosion, pollination, soil formation, nutrient cycling, primary productivity, biodiversity) and cultural ecosystem services (e.g. recreation and tourism, aesthetics, education and research, spiritual and religious, and cultural identity) (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005;Stolton and Dudley 2014;Haines-Young and Potschin 2017).…”

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“…An increasingly important challenge for the management of mountain parks is assessing how visitors view and value these environments including the ecosystem services they provide (Martinez Pastur et al 2015;Richards and Friess 2015;Leung et al 2018;Oteros-Rozas et al 2018). Previously, data on the views and values of visitors to parks have been collected using surveys, choice experiments, community consultation and focus groups, among others (Newsome et al 2012;Stolton and Dudley 2014). More recently, data from social media have been used to address important environmental and management questions (Ghermandi and Sinclair 2019), including identifying how visitors view and value natural environments and potential ecosystem services (Oteros-Rozas et al 2018;Teles da Mota and Pickering 2018;Rosa ´rio et al 2019).…”

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Using social media images to assess ecosystem services in a remote protected area in the Argentinean Andes

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Barros

Walden‐Schreiner

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Ambio

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Social media images are a novel source of data to assess how people view and value the environment. Access to these images is often free, the volume and spread of images is expanding rapidly and hence they are an increasingly valuable source of data complementing and expanding on other data. Recently, coding images has been used to assess sociocultural values relating to ecosystem services including those provided by national parks. To further explore the use of social media images, including for remote environments, we analysed the content of images posted to Flickr by people visiting a national park that contains the highest mountain in the southern hemisphere, Mt. Aconcagua, in Argentina, South America. The saliency of aesthetic landscapes, recreation, social relations and fresh-water provisioning was high across the 334 images posted to Flickr by 104 visitors to the Park, but location mattered. Images from visitors in easily accessible day-use areas were significantly more likely to include content that reflects biodiversityexistence, geology, culture and education services, while the content of images from remote areas was more likely to reflect social relations and fresh-water provision services. Comparisons of the content of images from Mt. Aconcagua with other studies in Europe, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia highlight similarities and differences in people's views of the diversity of locations, but also the benefits and limitations of user-generated social media content when assessing environmental and management issues.

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“…The existence of abundant grass for their cattle and leaves for their browsers showed the importance of the conservation site as per respondents picked out. The earth's biodiversity, according to (Kolahi et al, 2012;Stolton et al, 2015, Mamatha et al,2019, is a delivering enormous monetary and non-monetary advantages to humanity.…”

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Community Perceptions and Challenges to Wildlife Conservation, the Case of Borana National Park, Southern Ethiopia

Bussa

2022

ASD

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Background: Despite conservationist’ efforts to safeguard natural resources, wildlife continues to disappear at an alarming rate around the world. This research focused on evaluating community perceptions and factors affecting wildlife conservation in Borana National Park in Southern Ethiopia. The study was conducted by the year 2020. Methods: Questionnaires, focus group discussions, key informant interviews and personal observation were utilized to collect data from 95 households. Quantitative data was compiled and presented in tables using a five-point rating scale with scores of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 correspondingly. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 20 and transformed into frequency, percentages and mean. Result: Despite the abundance of wildlife and communities’ long-standing indigenous conservation practices, the study area faced challenges such as extreme resource competitions, human-wildlife conflicts, a lack of compensation, illegal hunting, settlement, variability and unfavorable weather conditions. Furthermore, invasive species expansion and increasing commercialization of wildlife products were feasible problems that require immediate attention in order to achieve sustainable wildlife resource development in the study area.

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Values and Benefits of Protected Areas

Cited by 54 publications

References 9 publications

Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

Using social media images to assess ecosystem services in a remote protected area in the Argentinean Andes

Community Perceptions and Challenges to Wildlife Conservation, the Case of Borana National Park, Southern Ethiopia

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