Learning from disaster: community-based marine protected areas in Fiji

AbstractThis paper examines whether and how experiencing climate-related disasters can improve the rural poor's adaptation to climate change through community-based resource management. Original household survey data in Fiji capture the establishment of community-based marine protected areas following a tropical cyclone. Controlling for the endogeneity of household-level cyclone damage reveals that a household's exposure to the disaster increases its support for establishing marine protected areas, presumably for future safety nets. Evidence suggests that community members' social learning from disaster experience might facilitate their consensual decision making.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Social capital as a key determinant of perceived benefits of community-based marine protected areas.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.726647976.793523455 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Helen Yap

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Perceived Benefits ◽

Community Based

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Exploring leadership dynamics in community-based marine protected areas

Marine Policy ◽

10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104569 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 129 ◽

pp. 104569

Author(s):

María Virginia Gabela-Flores ◽

Amy Diedrich

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Community Based

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Adaptive Capacity to Extreme Heat: Results from a Household Survey in Houston, Texas

Weather Climate and Society ◽

10.1175/wcas-d-16-0125.1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 787-799 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Mary H. Hayden ◽

Olga V. Wilhelmi ◽

Deborah Banerjee ◽

Tamara Greasby ◽

Jamie L. Cavanaugh ◽

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Keyword(s):

Adaptive Capacity ◽

Air Conditioning ◽

Household Survey ◽

The United States ◽

Extreme Heat ◽

Community Based ◽

Household Level ◽

Population Vulnerability ◽

Heat Risk ◽

Related Mortality

Abstract Extreme heat is the leading cause of weather-related mortality in the United States, suggesting the necessity for better understanding population vulnerability to extreme heat. The work presented here is part of a larger study examining vulnerability to extreme heat in current and future climates [System for Integrated Modeling of Metropolitan Extreme Heat Risk (SIMMER)] and was undertaken to assess Houston, Texas, residents’ adaptive capacity to extreme heat. A comprehensive, semistructured survey was conducted by telephone at 901 households in Houston in 2011. Frequency and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Results show that 20% of the survey respondents reported heat-related symptoms in the summer of 2011 despite widespread air conditioning availability throughout Houston. Of those reporting heat-related symptoms experienced in the home (n = 56), the majority could not afford to use air conditioning because of the high cost of electricity. This research highlights the efficacy of community-based surveys to better understand adaptive capacity at the household level; this survey contextualizes population vulnerability and identifies more targeted intervention strategies and adaptation actions.

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Analysis of Perception and Adaptation to Climate Change by Farmers in Gulmi District, Nepal

Journal of Agriculture and Environment ◽

10.3126/aej.v14i0.19784 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 ◽

pp. 31-43 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Narhari P Ghimire ◽

Maniratna Aryal

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Household Survey ◽

Climatic Data ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Community Based ◽

Individual Level ◽

Global Challenge ◽

Secondary Data Sources ◽

Structured Questionnaire

Climate change is a global challenge, highly affecting the developing countries with low adapting capacity, of which Nepal is not an exception. Climate change highly affects agriculture and livelihoods of farmers in Nepal. Its objectives are farmer's perceptions, witnesses and experiences on effects of climate change on agriculture and adaptations by farmers. Primary informations collected through structured questionnaire of household survey by selecting samples randomly. Information on primary and secondary data sources verified scientifically by trend analysis of climatic data. Most farmers depending on subsistence agriculture have a perception of climate change and respond to the changes based on their own local knowledge and experiences on farming. They are practicing both agricultural and non-agricultural adaptations at individual level. Consequently, appropriate technologies and sustainable community based adaptation strategies built on farmers knowledge, experiences and situation to cope with increasing effects of climate change on agriculture are necessary in the coming years.

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Success in community-based forestry: is the community missing?

International Forestry Review ◽

10.1505/146554820831255515 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 518-530

Author(s):

G. Prateek ◽

R.C. Knopf

Keyword(s):

Household Survey ◽

Field Work ◽

Second Phase ◽

Community Based ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Women's Participation ◽

Household Survey Data ◽

Successful Outcomes ◽

Two Phases ◽

Forest Conditions

Evaluation of successful outcomes in community-based natural resource management has long been debated in academic and policy literature. Scholarly assessments of success in Van Panchayats (VPs) of Uttarakhand, representing the oldest thriving institution of community-based forestry in India, are also under contestation. Predominantly, success has been identified with forest conditions (ecological) and the workings of VPs (institutional). Although these assessments have been useful, the perspectives of the community of users in defining successful outcomes have been less emphasized. Drawing upon two phases of field-work in Almora, Uttarakhand we first use an interpretive approach in exploring the success of VPs through the narrative framings of its three primary stakeholders. Through qualitative analysis, we show the prominence of three contextual issues: human-wildlife conflicts, constraints to women's participation, and subsistence livelihood needs, deemed crucial to the success of VPs by the user's community. Using the analysis of household survey data and secondary sources in the second phase of field work, we then show the validity of the community's concerns raised in the first phase. As a result, we argue that evaluations of successful outcomes should consider interpretive approaches, involving the community of users, to uncover the local contextual conditions crucial to the success of community-based forestry.

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Discovering factors that influence the success of community-based marine protected areas in the Visayas, Philippines

Ocean & Coastal Management ◽

10.1016/s0964-5691(01)00075-8 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 44 (11-12) ◽

pp. 683-710 ◽

Cited By ~ 208

Author(s):

Richard B. Pollnac ◽

Brian R. Crawford ◽

Maharlina L.G. Gorospe

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Community Based

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Evaluation of the Villagers' Willingness to Work or Pay for the Promotion of Community-based Marine Protected Areas in Cagayan Province, Philippines

Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics ◽

10.18480/jjae.20.0_61 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 20 (0) ◽

pp. 61-66

Author(s):

Emma Legaspi Ballad ◽

Teruyuki Shinbo ◽

Yoshinori Morooka

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Community Based

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Unbelievable but improved cookstoves are not helpful in reducing firewood demand in Nepal

Environment and Development Economics ◽

10.1017/s1355770x10000409 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 1-23 ◽

Cited By ~ 52

Author(s):

MANI NEPAL ◽

APSARA NEPAL ◽

KRISTINE GRIMSRUD

Keyword(s):

Indoor Air ◽

Indoor Air Pollution ◽

Household Survey ◽

Conservation Strategy ◽

Household Level ◽

Open Fire ◽

Long Run ◽

Different Types ◽

Household Survey Data ◽

Nationally Representative

ABSTRACTThis paper analyzes the effect of different types of cookstoves on firewood demand at the household level. Using nationally representative household survey data from Nepal, we find that stove type significantly affects the firewood demand for household uses. Traditional mud-stove user households seem to use less firewood than the open-fire stove users. Surprisingly, households with the so-called ‘improved’ stoves seem to use more firewood than the households with mud stoves. Thus, converting traditional open-fire stoves to mud stoves may be a better conservation strategy in the short term rather than installing improved stoves, unless the technology improves. However, in the long run, making cleaner fuel more accessible to rural households is desirable to reduce indoor air pollution.

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