Who Gains and Who Loses from Compensated Displacement from Protected Areas? The Case of the Derema Corridor, Tanzania

Rantala, Salla; Vihemäki, Heini; Swallow, Brent; Jambiya, George

doi:10.4103/0972-4923.115721

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“…There is mounting empirical evidence from Tanzania and elsewhere of the challenges of compensating lost access to natural resources with money (Cernea and Mathur, 2008;Rantala et al, 2013). There is mounting empirical evidence from Tanzania and elsewhere of the challenges of compensating lost access to natural resources with money (Cernea and Mathur, 2008;Rantala et al, 2013).…”

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Equity in REDD+: Varying logics in Tanzania

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Equity is frequently cited as one of the key design aspects of environmental governance regimes. In the context of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), a forest-based climate change mitigation instrument, the manner in which 'equity' is understood will be of critical importance for the impacts and acceptance of REDD + policies and initiatives. Whereas the concept has been extensively studied in the academic literature, references to equity in REDD + policy debates and documents are often vague, leaving room for various interpretations and modes of implementation. In our case study of the Tanzanian national REDD + policy domain, we provide a conceptual framework based on an institutional logics approach for analysing the various underlying rationalities in the 'equity in REDD+' debate. We apply it to demonstrate how the involved policy actors draw from heterogeneous equity logics in their support for and opposition to different governance models, highlighting the importance of precise contextualization and operationalization of broad international principles in national REDD + initiatives.

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Equity in REDD+: Varying logics in Tanzania

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“…The disjunct between property as it is held on the ground, and the hegemonic western view of property, can become the basis for environmental narratives justifying aggressive management practices and interventions, including displacements, implementation of alternative livelihoods, or heavy-handed enforcement around use of natural resources (Adams and Hutton, 2007;Rantala et al, 2013;Wright et al, 2016). These interventions are often adopted from quite different systems, opening space to financial capital and external investors in the region, allowing monetization of the area (Büscher et al, 2012).…”

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Sustainability and Land tenure: Who owns the floodplain in the Pantanal, Brazil?

2017

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In seeking to achieve poverty alleviation and environmental conservation, public policy has often centred on guaranteeing land titles to local peoples. However, such approaches have brought unintended outcomes, replacing small-scale economies and natural areas by intensive exploitation of resources with no clear improvement in local people's wellbeing. To understand this, we go beyond a general political ecology framing to consider relations between sustainability and land tenure, focusing on the intersection of economics, ecology and anthropology to understand how land tenure, property and use play out on the ground. We draw together different concepts including bundle of rights, de facto and de jure resource use, property regimes, density-dependence and non-equilibrium theory. The significance of this threediscipline view is illustrated through a case study of the Pantanal wetland, Brazil, where conservationists, the government and the local population contest ownership of the Paraguay River floodplain. Government sought to address conflicts around tenure and access through a narrow view of property, which failed to encompass the overlapping layers of land tenure, property and use on the ground and only served to create further legal battles. This article concludes that a more complex view combining the three perspectives is needed in the case of the Pantanal, and in other cases of contested property rights, in order to resolve conflicting claims and foster sustainability. We dissect both the power plays involved between different groups competing for control of a valuable resource, and the legal frameworks which can and should provide checks and balances in the system. The more nuanced grasp that emerges of local systems of tenure and access, of how these diverge from western property concepts, and of their environmental implications favours a better understanding of local realities, allowing for better management policy and consequently contributing more effectively towards poverty alleviation and environmental protection.Keywords: sustainability, land tenure, property, resource use, the Pantanal Highlights Conventional property systems do not map well onto unpredictable, dynamic ecosystems  Resource access and use in wetlands and semi-arid rangelands are customarily mobile  Locally-adapted resource use, not specific property regime, dictates sustainability  Economics, anthropology and ecology help address land conflict in Brazil's Pantanal

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“…In addition, there were challenges in computing compensation as the new village land legislation was enacted while the acquisition process was already underway. In research published in 2013, Rantala et al examined the gains and losses from compensation payments in the Derema Corridor project (Rantala et al 2013). The example below highlights the challenges of compensation discussed above.…”

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Enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land-use investments in Tanzania: Legal assessment report

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Who Gains and Who Loses from Compensated Displacement from Protected Areas? The Case of the Derema Corridor, Tanzania

Cited by 34 publications

References 16 publications

Equity in REDD+: Varying logics in Tanzania

Equity in REDD+: Varying logics in Tanzania

Sustainability and Land tenure: Who owns the floodplain in the Pantanal, Brazil?

Enabling legal frameworks for sustainable land-use investments in Tanzania: Legal assessment report

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