scholarly journals Mapping evidence on integrated conservation and health projects worldwide: an appeal for help in identifying past and ongoing interventions

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. e335
Author(s):  
Jo Middleton ◽  
Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka ◽  
Jonathan Jennings ◽  
Richard Hazell ◽  
Alan J Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Conservation

Maritime built heritage and marine wildlife: Remote sensing as a tool to identify and prioritise integrated conservation in coastal environments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Baxter ◽  
Martin Coombes ◽  
Heather Viles
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Structural Information ◽  
Regional Scale ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Engineering Structures ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Ecological Importance ◽  
Integrated Conservation ◽  
Marine Wildlife

<p>Maritime built heritage is threatened by natural hazards and human activities around the world. Likewise, marine wildlife is increasingly threatened by the effects of climate change and human development. Due to their age and traditional construction, maritime built heritage (e.g. historic harbours) may provide unique habitats for diverse assemblages of marine wildlife. Yet, as aspects of built heritage are often missing in assessments of marine infrastructure, identifying which heritage assets have the potential to provide the greatest ecological benefits remains a challenge. An improved understanding of the ecological importance of maritime built heritage can enhance arguments for its continued protection, maintenance and repair. At the same time, this may present new opportunities to conserve important and largely unidentified hotspots of marine biodiversity.</p><p>Using preliminary results from the Isles of Scilly, UK, this study presents a novel method for quantifying the full extent of marine engineering structures (including heritage assets) at a regional scale, and for identifying priority structures for joint biodiversity and heritage conservation.</p><p>Remote sensing data were considered alongside historic environment data and records of modern coastal defences in a rapid desk-based assessment to create a complete inventory of marine structures along the entire coastline of the Isles of Scilly. In total, 68 structures were recorded (6,180 m in length), with over half registered as heritage assets. LiDAR and aerial photography were used to determine the site characteristics of each structure (e.g. shore position). This allowed for an initial assessment of the potential ecological importance of these structures when considered alongside structural information, including building age and material. By evaluating the ecological potential and heritage value of each structure using a novel scoring system, priorities for conservation and other managed interventions are identified. This includes listed buildings and scheduled monuments that due to their construction features and shore position are most likely to support diverse marine assemblages.</p><p>Combined ecological-heritage evaluations incorporating remote sensing datasets allow for the identification of those structures with the greatest potential for the integrated conservation of built heritage and marine wildlife. Research is now needed to develop this method further, ground-truth its outputs, and test its application in other geographical locations and at varying scales.</p>

Constraints on socio-buffering around the Mantadia National Park in Madagascar

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priya Shyamsundar
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
National Park ◽  
Economic Viability ◽  
Buffer Zones ◽  
Stake Holder ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Integrated Conservation ◽  
Integrated Conservation And Development ◽  
Conservation And Development Projects

SummaryIntegrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) involve the establishment of parks and reserves with protective or buffer zones around them. Socio-buffering provides local residents with alternatives to traditional land-use activities, but the actual implementation of socio-buffering programmes is difficult.Socio-economic requirements and constraints to socio-buffering were assessed for the Mantadia National Park in eastern Madagascar based on five criteria. Previously unused lands for compensating people for loss of access to areas within the park were found to be insufficient. While there existed institutions and programmes for developing substitute land-use activities, successful adoption of these activities was crucially dependent on their economic viability. Socio-buffering activities need to not only provide goods that are substitutes for goods that are traditionally consumed, but they also need to be at least as profitable as traditional economic efforts. Also, if land and labour are not a constraint to agricultural expansion, socio-buffering activities can themselves result in increased deforestation. Finally, the long-term effectiveness of socio-buffering was likely to be dependent on the satisfaction of a number of stake-holder interests, and on explicit linkages developed between socio-buffering activities and conservation.

scholarly journals The Role of Gardens in Integrated Conservation Practice

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
Audrey Denvir ◽  
Jeannine Cavender-Bares ◽  
Antonio González-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Plant Conservation ◽  
Ex Situ ◽  
Conservation Practice ◽  
Integrated Research ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Conservation Plan ◽  
Species Specific ◽  
Integrated Conservation

Gardens and horticulturists play an increasingly important role in plant conservation, both in situ and ex situ. Integrated research and conservation of species intends to work across fields to connect science to conservation practice by engaging actors from different sectors, including gardens. The case of integrated conservation of Quercus brandegeei, a microendemic oak species in Baja California Sur, Mexico, is presented as an example of a collaboration between gardens and academic researchers to create a species-specific conservation plan that incorporates horticultural knowledge.

The Development of Smart Public Spaces in the Greek Historic Centers

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-210
Author(s):  
Despina Dimelli
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Essential Role ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Historic Center ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
Integrated Conservation

Historic centres constitute a substantial urban fabric which concentrate cultural elements that have been shaped through the centuries. The current chapter investigates the role of public spaces in Greek historical centres and the role of smart tools and applications in their integrated conservation. The paper examines three public spaces of Athens historic center and analyzes the threats and opportunities they face. Urban planning and design have an essential role in the historic centres' public spaces revival, and towards this direction, smart technologies can be decisive. The chapter evaluates parameters that shape historic public spaces as urban design, sustainable moblity, urban functions and participatory processes and it proposes the integration of ICT in these fields in order to make historic public spaces vibrant urban areas.

Epilogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 251-260
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Lekan
Keyword(s):  
Public Outreach ◽  
National Context ◽  
Conservation And Development ◽  
Global Conservation ◽  
Visitor Center ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Integrated Conservation ◽  
Integrated Conservation And Development ◽  
The Way

Six decades after the Grzimeks first arrived in the Serengeti, their quest still shapes the way that tourists, scientists, park staff, and Tanzanians are invited to understand the park’s origins and its significance for global conservation, as this short ethnographic moment at the Serengeti Visitor Center in Seronera reveals. A better exhibit script, one more attuned to a Tanzanian national context, would dispense with the white “charismatic megascientist” theme and focus squarely on the hopes and aspirations of political modernizers and customary land users in the early 1960s. Without a retooling of public outreach, the goal of integrated conservation and development in the Serengeti that is attuned to local priorities cannot be achieved.

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