Adaptive management in transboundary protected areas: The Bialowieza National Park and Biosphere Reserve as a case study

2000 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 326-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arun Agrawal
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Environmental Cooperation ◽  
Key Species ◽  
Protection Strategies ◽  
Transboundary Protected Areas ◽  
Future Outcomes

Transboundary protected areas (PAs) currently represent nearly 10% of the world's network of PAs. The protection of their biological wealth poses special challenges because of the need for cooperation among sovereign states. Adaptive management strategies offer hope for a more accurate assessment of ecological conditions within PAs, and have the potential for furthering one of the major objectives of these PAs, namely enhancing environmental cooperation between countries across whose boundaries the protected area complex is situated. This paper examines the implications of adaptive management for transboundary PAs by using the Polish/Belarusian Bialowieza PAs as a case study. Managers of PAs have conventionally aimed at accurate predictions and short-term system equilibrium through ‘top-down’ policies of control and exclusion. In the case of PAs, these objectives have meant limiting use and employing models of linear growth. Adaptive management strategies rely instead on long-term experience, assessment of experimental interventions, and collection of greater amounts of information to assess future outcomes. They aim at the satisfaction of objectives that may include equilibrium changes. These features of adaptive management imply attention over time to the interactions between different key species, greater involvement of local populations in the collection of information about the resources, and experimenting with different levels of use to infer the most suitable protection strategies.

scholarly journals Crop Protection and Its Effectiveness against Wildlife: A Case Study of Two Villages of Shivapuri National Park, Nepal

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudip Pandey ◽  
Siddhartha Bajra Bajracharya
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Crop Damage

A complex relationship between the residents and protected areas continue to be an obstacle to successful conservation of protected areas. Conflicts between park authority and people living around the park pose a threat to conservation. Moreover, crop depredation due to wildlife incurs a severe economic loss to communities living in the close vicinity of the park, affecting the livelihood and well-being of locals. Many studies have been carried out emphasizing the identification and quantification of crop damage, but studies highlighting the means used for the crop protection and their effectiveness are limited. This paper examines frequency of the crop damage by wildlife and efficacy of utilized management practices in Shivapuri National Park (SNP). Altogether 132 households were visited in two buffer zone villages namely, Sikre and Jhor Mahankhal of Shivapuri National Park, Nepal. The study suggested that crop depredation by wildlife was a function of several factors, namely, distance of the farmland from the park, size of the crop raiding animals, frequency of their attacks on the farmland, and the type of crops. Five different measures were identified by the communities which they regularly used to prevent crop damage. Both traditional as well as modern means were used by households to guard crops from invading wild animals. The means of crop protection from wildlife differed according to the type of animal and crop being protected. Biofencing and trenches were effective for the small animals. Watch tower “Machans” and throwing flaming sticks and making noises were the most effective and safest means of crop guarding from all kind of animals. Though crop guarding was intensive, no means were found to be able to prevent crop damage completely. Thus, site specific management strategies as well as technical and financial support from donor organizations would be most useful to minimize crop loss.Nepal Journal of Science and Technology Vol. 16, No.1 (2015) pp. 1-10

Make Them Move: Understanding Visitors’ Sedentary Behavior in Protected Natural Areas. A Case Study in Spain

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. 1129-1137
Author(s):  
Estela Farías-Torbidoni ◽  
Demir Barić
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Sedentary Behavior ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Metabolic Equivalent ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Protected Natural Area ◽  
Life Habits ◽  
Protected Natural Areas

Background: Protected areas are important attractions for promoting healthy life habits. Consequently, to date, a number of studies have examined the association between visitors’ characteristics and physical activities. However, little is known about the specific users inclined exclusively to have sedentary behavior during a visit. Thus, using the Alt Pirineu Natural Park (Spain) as a case study, the aim of this study is to determine the influence of sociodemographic, trip, motivational, and opinion descriptors on the likelihood of participating in sedentary behavior while visiting a protected natural area. Methods: The data used were randomly collected from visitors through an onsite structured questionnaire (N = 628). Results: Metabolic equivalent consumption was used to empirically distinguish the sedentary (22.6%) from the active (77.4%) visitor groups. A logistic regression analysis indicated that the trip and motivational descriptors explained the highest degree of the overall variation in reporting sedentary behavior. Conclusion: The study contributed to documenting the information about visitors’ behavior in protected areas, and the findings may aid park managers in developing effective management strategies for promoting and enhancing physical activity in protected natural areas.

Conservation and conflict resolution in transboundary protected areas: prespa as an european case-study

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 127-134
Author(s):  
Richard Clarke ◽  
Tatjana D. Kolemisevska-Gugulovska ◽  
Georgi M. Dimirovski ◽  
Leke Gjiknuri ◽  
Ljupco Grupce ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Transboundary Protected Areas

scholarly journals Assessing stakeholder perceptions of landscape and place in the context of a major river intervention: a call for their inclusion in adaptive management

Water Policy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Riyan J. G. van den Born ◽  
Laura N. H. Verbrugge ◽  
Wessel Ganzevoort
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
River Landscape ◽  
Major River

Abstract Adaptive management strategies are required to manage multi-actor and multifunctional river landscapes. Such strategies need to be inclusive of perspectives of different stakeholders. We present a case study of a pilot engineering project in the Dutch river Waal, which drastically changed the appearance of the river landscape. We study perceptions of four stakeholder groups (residents, recreational anglers, recreational boaters and shipping professionals) regarding the impacts of this intervention on landscape values, including aesthetics, naturalness, biodiversity, flood safety and accessibility. Results show that stakeholders differ in which functions of the river landscape they find important and how they perceive the longitudinal dams to influence the landscape. They also differ in levels of place attachment and trust in the responsible authority. Shipping professionals stand out for their more negative evaluations of the dams compared to the other stakeholders, while especially residents demonstrate high levels of place identity and connection with nature. Residents also feel that the dams are improving flood risk safety in the area, and they positively evaluate knowledge and skills of Dutch water managers. These results provide water managers with much needed insights into landscape functions valued by different stakeholder groups and those perceived as most endangered by landscape interventions.

scholarly journals Strategies for sustainable management of renewable resources during environmental change

2017 ◽  
Vol 284 (1850) ◽  
pp. 20162762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilie Lindkvist ◽  
Örjan Ekeberg ◽  
Jon Norberg
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Change ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Optimal Strategies ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Future Outcomes

As a consequence of global environmental change, management strategies that can deal with unexpected change in resource dynamics are becoming increasingly important. In this paper we undertake a novel approach to studying resource growth problems using a computational form of adaptive management to find optimal strategies for prevalent natural resource management dilemmas. We scrutinize adaptive management, or learning-by-doing, to better understand how to simultaneously manage and learn about a system when its dynamics are unknown. We study important trade-offs in decision-making with respect to choosing optimal actions (harvest efforts) for sustainable management during change. This is operationalized through an artificially intelligent model where we analyze how different trends and fluctuations in growth rates of a renewable resource affect the performance of different management strategies. Our results show that the optimal strategy for managing resources with declining growth is capable of managing resources with fluctuating or increasing growth at a negligible cost, creating in a management strategy that is both efficient and robust towards future unknown changes. To obtain this strategy, adaptive management should strive for: high learning rates to new knowledge, high valuation of future outcomes and modest exploration around what is perceived as the optimal action.

scholarly journals Magnoliophyta, Biosphere Reserve of Pendjari, Atacora province, Benin

Check List ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emeline P. S. Assédé ◽  
Aristide C. Adomou ◽  
Brice Sinsin
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Plant Species ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Plant Conservation ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Best Management ◽  
Savanna Vegetation ◽  
Transboundary Protected Areas

The Biosphere Reserve of Pendjari is an example of best management practice of protected areas in West Africa with typical Sudanian savanna vegetation. It is part of the vast and transboundary protected areas of W, Pendjari and Arly National Parks of Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger. This work provides an overview of the flora of the reserve by means of a thorough botanical inventory. The plant species composition is typical of Sudanian savanna. We recorded 684 plant species, which were distributed among 366 genera and 89 families. The two most species-rich families were Fabaceae (115) and Poaceae (112). The most important life forms were phanerophytes and therophytes. The chorological spectrum was dominated by Sudanian species. With Ipomoea beninensis Akoègninou, Lisowski and Sinsin, Thunbergia atacorensis Akoègninou and Lisowski and Cissus kouandeensis A.Chev., three endemic species of Benin were recorded, demonstrating the importance of the reserve for plant conservation.

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