Contested Ground in Nature Protection: Current Challenges and Opportunities in Community-Based Natural Resources and Protected Areas Management

Good governance in natural resource management (NRM) is one of the most challenging issues in developing countries that often inappropriately embedded in national policies and political agendas. It is, in fact, even more important for countries like Bangladesh with exceptionally high pressure and dependence on its natural resources for sustaining rural livelihoods. Globally, nowadays, good governance is considered as one of the key factor for achieving the goal of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation. Bangladesh, of late has responded to that global zeal by involving local communities in the management of country’s declining forest and other natural resources. The colonial legacy of the forestry sector of Bangladesh was planned and, managed as interim projects through donors’ prescriptions. Thus, institutions, management processes and conservation outcomes were problematic. The conventional approach adopted by colonial and post-colonial regimes for forest management also proved to be inefficient due to its top-down management system. The absolute dependency on donor support, and their prescription sometimes worsened the situation both ecologically and socially. Global, regional and local trends supported the need for a different dimension in the governance paradigms. The introduction of a pluralistic approach, known as co-management in protected areas (PAs) is an example of an attempt whereby shared governance mechanism are implemented to attain the desired goals of conservation that will also address the livelihoods and aspirations of communities living in and around PAs of the country. However, in designing future forest and PA regimes the concern of the external aid support and attached conditions remain a reality that needs to be addressed. Adequate attention should be given to our vanishing biodiversity, culture and community livelihoods through devising an appropriate governance mechanism recognizing and supporting local rights, access and participation in the environmental management. It is now time to mainstream the adhoc nature of governance according to our national conservation strategy and policy frameworks in order to achieve the goals and objectives of the Bangladesh NRM sector addressing the human and community right of people in the specific context of forest protected areas management.

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Analysis of the Sustainability Level of Community-based Marine Protected Areas Management

Jurnal Sains Komunikasi dan Pengembangan Masyarakat [JSKPM] ◽

10.29244/jskpm.2.2.255-270 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 255

Author(s):

Cindy Pricilla Muharara ◽

Arif Satria

Keyword(s):

Resource Management ◽

Multidimensional Scaling ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Qualitative Data ◽

Community Based ◽

Sustainable Resource Management ◽

Protected Areas Management ◽

Quantitative Data Analysis ◽

Stress Score

The principles of sustainable development should be implemented in resource management, one of them by developing a Marine Protected Areas (MPA). This paper aims to analyze the sustainability level of community-based resource management in marine protected areas in Lembongan Village, Nusa Penida, Klungkung, Bali Province. The method used in this research is a quantitative approach with survey to 40 respondents and supported by qualitative data. Quantitative data analysis was performed using Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). The results of this research indicate that category from the sustainability level of community-based resource management in MPA of Nusa Penida is good, with stress score is 0.05100 or 5,1 percent, with RSQ is 0.98980 because of Awig-awig’s local wisdom.Keyword: community-based natural resource management (CBM), marine protected areas, sustainable resource management -----------------------ABSTRAKPrinsip-prinsip pembangunan berkelanjutan hendaknya diimplementasikan dalam pengelolaan sumber daya, salah satunya dengan mengembangkan Kawasan Konservasi Perairan (KKP). Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis tingkat keberlanjutan dari pengelolaan sumber daya berbasis masyarakat di kawasan konservasi perairan daerah (KKPD) di Desa Lembongan, Nusa Penida, Kabupaten Klungkung, Provinsi Bali. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif dengan metode survei terhadap 40 responden dan didukung oleh data kualitatif. Analisis data kuantitatif menggunakan Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). Hasil MDS menunjukkan bahwa tingkat keberlanjutan pengelolaan sumber daya alam di KKPD Nusa Penida termasuk dalam kategori baik, dengan nilai stress 0.05100 atau 5,1 persen, dengan RSQ sebesar 0.98980 karena ada kearifan lokal Awig-awig.Kata Kunci: kawasan konservasi perairan, pengelolaan sumber daya alam berbasis masyarakat (PSBM), pengelolaan sumber daya berkelanjutan

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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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Assessment of recreational use of specially protected natural territories of Tatishchevsky district of Saratov region

RUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety ◽

10.22363/2313-2310-2019-27-2-117-127 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 117-127

Author(s):

Yulia M Andriyanova ◽

Irina V Sergeeva ◽

Yulia M Mokhonko ◽

Natalia N Gusakova

Keyword(s):

Natural Resources ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Saratov Region ◽

Future State ◽

Forest Phytocenoses ◽

Long Time ◽

Main Components ◽

First Time ◽

Recreational Use ◽

Specially Protected Natural Territories

The influence of recreation being a set of measures to restore health and recreation, on the main components of forest phytocenoses in specially protected natural territories of the Tatishchevsky district of the Saratov region has been studied for the first time. These phytocenoses have been intensively used for tourism for a long time. The intensity and visits activity of protected areas has been determined; the recreational capacity of territorial objects has been studied. The degree of forest landscapes has been revealed in specially protected natural territories. The findings allow predicting the future state of the natural resources of the Saratov region and can be taken into account when assessing their optimal use.

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Wilderness protected areas : management guidelines for IUCN category 1b protected areas

10.2305/iucn.ch.2016.pag.25.en ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

H. Locke ◽

S. Ghosh ◽

S. Carver ◽

T. McDonald ◽

S.S. Sloan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Management Guidelines ◽

Protected Areas Management

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Holistic investigation of shore angler profiles to support marine protected areas management

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112089 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 285 ◽

pp. 112089

Author(s):

Eléonore Cambra ◽

Alice Bello ◽

Mohsen Kayal ◽

Philippe Lenfant ◽

Lauriane Vasseur ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Protected Areas ◽

Marine Protected Areas ◽

Protected Areas Management

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Remote Sensing Methods for the Biophysical Characterization of Protected Areas Globally: Challenges and Opportunities

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information ◽

10.3390/ijgi10060384 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (6) ◽

pp. 384

Author(s):

Javier Martínez-López ◽

Bastian Bertzky ◽

Simon Willcock ◽

Marine Robuchon ◽

María Almagro ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Large Scale ◽

Anthropogenic Activities ◽

Global Scale ◽

Area Network ◽

Biophysical Characterization ◽

Challenges And Opportunities ◽

Scale Characterization

Protected areas (PAs) are a key strategy to reverse global biodiversity declines, but they are under increasing pressure from anthropogenic activities and concomitant effects. Thus, the heterogeneous landscapes within PAs, containing a number of different habitats and ecosystem types, are in various degrees of disturbance. Characterizing habitats and ecosystems within the global protected area network requires large-scale monitoring over long time scales. This study reviews methods for the biophysical characterization of terrestrial PAs at a global scale by means of remote sensing (RS) and provides further recommendations. To this end, we first discuss the importance of taking into account the structural and functional attributes, as well as integrating a broad spectrum of variables, to account for the different ecosystem and habitat types within PAs, considering examples at local and regional scales. We then discuss potential variables, challenges and limitations of existing global environmental stratifications, as well as the biophysical characterization of PAs, and finally offer some recommendations. Computational and interoperability issues are also discussed, as well as the potential of cloud-based platforms linked to earth observations to support large-scale characterization of PAs. Using RS to characterize PAs globally is a crucial approach to help ensure sustainable development, but it requires further work before such studies are able to inform large-scale conservation actions. This study proposes 14 recommendations in order to improve existing initiatives to biophysically characterize PAs at a global scale.

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