Bringing Together Nature and Culture: Integrating a Landscape Approach in Protected Areas Policy and Practice

2014 ◽  
pp. 33-42
Author(s):  
Jessica Brown
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Nature And Culture

scholarly journals Rangers can't be with every elephant: assessing rangers' perceptions of a community, problem-solving policing model for protected areas

Oryx ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
William D. Moreto ◽  
Richard Charlton
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Conservation Policy ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Wildlife Crime ◽  
Illegal Activities ◽  
Study Participants

AbstractRecent studies have highlighted that illegal activities occurring within protected areas, including the poaching of fauna and flora, cannot be addressed with increased law enforcement alone. Moreover, research on the increasingly militarized nature of front-line conservation efforts has pointed to potentially detrimental aspects of such approaches. This has led to a shift in focus to identifying ways to further engage local communities in the prevention and reduction of wildlife crimes. However, few studies have examined the potential for changing the responsibilities of front-line conservation personnel or their views on such changes. Such insight is vital in forecasting the successful adoption of, or possible resistance towards, a more community-oriented policy. We examined rangers’ perceptions in Uganda to assess their attitudes towards traditional enforcement strategies and alternative, non-enforcement approaches for reducing illegal activities in protected areas. Our findings suggest that although respondents believed that traditional enforcement strategies (e.g. foot patrols) are important and effective in reducing wildlife crime, these strategies on their own were insufficient to address illegal activities. Study participants emphasized the importance of expanding the role of front-line rangers, in line with approaches suggested in the policing literature. We discuss the implications of our findings for transdisciplinary conservation science research and front-line conservation policy and practice.

scholarly journals Making parks make a difference: poor alignment of policy, planning and management with protected-area impact, and ways forward

2015 ◽  
Vol 370 (1681) ◽  
pp. 20140280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Pressey ◽  
Piero Visconti ◽  
Paul J. Ferraro
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Development Aid ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Dual Strategy ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Education And Development

Policy and practice around protected areas are poorly aligned with the basic purpose of protection, which is to make a difference. The difference made by protected areas is their impact, defined in program evaluation as the outcomes arising from protection relative to the counterfactual of no protection or a different form of protection. Although impact evaluation of programs is well established in fields such as medicine, education and development aid, it is rare in nature conservation. We show that the present weak alignment with impact of policy targets and operational objectives for protected areas involves a great risk: targets and objectives can be achieved while making little difference to the conservation of biodiversity. We also review potential ways of increasing the difference made by protected areas, finding a poor evidence base for the use of planning and management ‘levers’ to better achieve impact. We propose a dual strategy for making protected areas more effective in their basic role of saving nature, outlining ways of developing targets and objectives focused on impact while also improving the evidence for effective planning and management.

scholarly journals Ecotourism for Eco Friendly Guest and Green Host - A Case Study on Thenmala Ecotourism Project, Kerala

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-47
Author(s):  
T A Binoy
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Environment Impact ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Environment Impact Assessment

Ecotourism is a purposeful travel to understand the nature and culture of a particular area taking care not to alter the integrity of the ecosystem, while producing economic opportunities that make conservation of natural resources beneficial to the local people. Protected Areas such as national Parks, Biosphere Reserves and Wild Life Sanctuaries have figured prominently in biodiversity conservation and well-designed and managed Protected Areas can form the pinnacle of nation's efforts to protect biological diversity and also provide opportunities for recreation and tourism. Scientific studies show that planning ecotourism in Protected Areas as done in Thenmala ecotourism project, Kerala, first planned ecotourism project in India, which can be a model for other such destination development programmes. In Protected areas, developing forests as recreation spots can mitigate hardships of indigenous communities. This will provide monetary returns to thepublic exchequer, while protecting bio diverse patches with the support of the local community. For better planning and implementation of different components of ecotourism, zonalisation, site-specific action plan, reliable estimates of carrying. capacity and Environment Impact Assessment may be done in all the Protected Areas so as to avoid the ill effects of tourism. This research paper analyses and evaluates the methodology and typology of ecotourism practices at Thenmala, Kerala and proposing Thenmala as a model for the development of similar program in India

scholarly journals Protection Forest: A New Dimension for Biodiversity Conservation, Sustainable Forest Management and Livelihood Improvement

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 111-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Lamsal
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
Protection Forest ◽  
Livelihood Improvement ◽  
Negative Impacts

Protected areas have greater role in the biodiversity conservation, sustainable forest management and livelihood improvement. Government of Nepal has different provisions for the management of such areas. Centralized conservation concept has broadened to participatory and people centred approach. Landscape approach is the latest one in this field. There are various benefits of the declaration of the protected forest, and initiatives are also being taken from the Governmental sector, but along with that several negative impacts are also being witnessed. A clear strategy is needed in this regard. This paper talks about the development of the participatory approach, government initiatives and positive and negative impacts and the challenges ahead.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/init.v4i0.5543The Initiation Vol.4 2011 111-114

scholarly journals MODERN APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS IN WESTERN SIBERIA AND ALTAI KRAI

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.N. Rotanova ◽  
◽  
N.F. Kharlamova ◽  
E.V. Selezneva ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Western Siberia ◽  
Ecological Framework ◽  
Network System ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
Framework Approach ◽  
Environmental Concepts ◽  
Specially Protected Areas

Approaches to improving environmental protection in Siberia and the Altai Krai are considered. The paper substantiates the proposal to create a regional (Siberian) network (system) of specially protected areas using an ecological framework approach; the need to form a unified methodological base on the principles of forming regional networks (systems) of protected areas; about the development of a protected area Scheme in the Altai Krai based on modern environmental concepts and approaches: continuity of conservation, landscape approach.

scholarly journals Reservas naturais e desenvolvimento regional sustentável: o exemplo do parque nacional da Floresta da Baviera na Alemanha (“Bayerischer Wald”)

GeoTextos ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eberhard Rothfuss ◽  
Veronika Deffner
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Biosphere Reserves ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Natural Parks ◽  
Bavarian Forest ◽  
Sustainable Regional Development

Este artigo faz uma observação conceitual, prática e teórica, do desenvolvimento regional sustentável no contexto de reservas naturais. Dentro do debate internacional sobre a sustentabilidade, percebemos que as reservas naturais com caráter integrativo têm ganho um papel cada vez mais importante. Na Alemanha, existem três categorias diferentes, sendo elas parque natural, reserva de biosfera e parque nacional. O ponto forte da Europa são suas áreas protegidas. Os últimos debates científicos demonstram como, neste processo, pensar “dentro e com o mundo” vem ocupando mais e mais o lugar da reflexão ecológica. Isto influencia na formulação de uma sustentabilidade estritamente focada na natureza, que se aplica especialmente aos parques nacionais da Alemanha. Através de um estudo empírico sobre o parque nacional Floresta da Baviera são demonstradas as possibilidades e os limites das estratégias de desenvolvimento integrativo para os parques nacionais, contrapondo os diversos interesses aos seus princípios contrários econômicos e de proteção. Perspectivas construtivistas geram muitas vezes conflitos e tensões, que só podem ser reduzidos através de um verdadeiro diálogo que integre os diversos interesses. Sob a tese da chamada “mudança bloqueada” irão ser reveladas as bases sociológicas deste bloqueio. Abstract EXTENSIVE PROTECTED AREAS AND SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: THE CASE OF THE BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK This paper focuses on some conceptional, practical and theoretical reflections on sustainable regional development in the context of extensive protected areas. It will be shown that in the course of the global debate on sustainability, protected areas with an integrative character are getting more and more significant. Three different categories of protected areas exist in Germany: natural parks, biosphere reserves and national parks. Transfrontier protected areas are the strength of Europe. The latest scientific discourse shows that in place of an unsophisticated way of thinking about ecology, a new kind of thinking trying to overcome the dichotomy of nature and culture is more and more attracting the notice. This change of perception has a deep impact on a purely nature-oriented sustainability, which especially applies to national parks in Germany. On the basis of an empirical study of the Bavarian Forest National Park, the opportunities and limits of integrative development strategies are identified by opposing the different interests of the affected actors and their contrary logic of economy and protection. It will be pointed out that the diverse perceptions of the actors are deeply constructivist and generate profound areas of conflict. These arising conflicts can just be minimised by an equal dialogue to solve the divergent interests. By elaborating the thesis of a “blocked change”, a socio-critical perspective is drawn on this blockade.

scholarly journals System of protected natural areas as a resource of the Tyumen region regional development

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-67
Author(s):  
V. Kalutskov
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Network Structure ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Cultural Framework ◽  
Specially Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Protected Natural Areas

  The  article  discusses  the  prospects  of  applying  a  cultural  and  landscape approach to the network of specially protected natural areas of the region.Legal  issues  related  to  the  management  of  specially  protected  natural  areas  are considered.The  main  attention  is  paid  to  the  justification  of  the  allocation  of  perspective  protected  areas  within  the  framework  of  the  emerging  Tyumen  region  cultural  framework and  the  analysis  of  the  network  structure,  relative  to  four  hubs  of  the  regional  framework: Tyumen, Tobolsk, Ishim and Yalutorovsk.

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