Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Authors

  • Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras
  • Ignacio Palomo
  • Veronica B. Lo
  • María D. López-Rodríguez
  • Anna Filyushkina
  • Marie Fischborn
  • Christopher M. Raymond
  • Tobias Plieninger

Inclusive conservation approaches that effectively conserve biodiversity while improving human well-being are gaining traction in the face of the sixth mass extinction of biodiversity. Despite much theorization on the governance of inclusive conservation, empirical research on its practical implementation is urgently needed. Here, using a correlation network analysis and drawing on empirical results from 263 sites described on the web platform of the PANORAMA initiative (IUCN), we inductively identified global clusters of conservation outcomes in protected and conserved areas. These clusters represent five conservation foci or archetypes, namely (i) community-based conservation, (ii) sustainable management, (iii) conflict resolution, (iv) multi-level and co-governance, and (v) environmental protection and nature’s contribution to people. Our empirical approach further revealed that some dimensions of inclusive conservation are crucial as leverage points to manage protected areas related to these clusters successfully, namely improvements in the socio-cultural context and social cohesion, enhancing the status and participation of youth, women, and minorities, improved human health, empowerment of local communities, or reestablishment of dialogue and trust. We highlight inclusive interventions such as education and capacity building, development of alliances and partnerships, and enabling sustainable livelihoods, or governance arrangements led by Indigenous peoples and local communities or private actors, as levers to promote positive transformations in the social-ecological systems of protected areas. We argue that although some of the leverage points we identified are less targeted in current protected area management, they can represent powerful areas of intervention to enhance social and ecological outcomes in protected areas.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer7
ZeitschriftEcology and Society
Jahrgang28
Ausgabenummer4
Anzahl der Seiten18
ISSN1708-3087
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 10.2023

Bibliographische Notiz

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the author(s).

DOI

Zuletzt angesehen

Forschende

  1. Hana Attia

Publikationen

  1. Facilitative-competitive interactions in an Old-Growth Forest: The Importance of Large-Diameter Trees as Benefactors and Stimulators for Forest Community Assembly
  2. 'Saving' the city
  3. Introduction - Teaching Artistic Strategies. Playing with Materiality, Aesthetics and Ambiguity
  4. Machine Learning Analysis in the Diagnostics of the Dynamics of Ball Bearing with Different Radial Internal Clearance
  5. Re-registration as a means of altering a company's status
  6. Managing Research Environments
  7. Zwischen Assimilation und Multikultur
  8. Tormentil for active ulcerative colitis
  9. Leveraging Biodiversity Action From Plural Values
  10. Citizen Relationship Management (CRM)
  11. Differential responses of ecosystem components to a low-intensity fire in a Mediterranean forest
  12. Application of non-target analysis with LC-HRMS for the monitoring of raw and potable water
  13. Akademisches Schreiben
  14. A modeling assessment of the physicochemical properties and environmental fate of emerging and novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances
  15. Prediction of improvement in quality of life (QoL-AGHDA) in adults with growth hormone deficiency by normative reference limits: data of the German KIMS cohort
  16. Nachhaltigkeit als Treiber des Unternehmenserfolgs
  17. Impacts of software and its engineering on the carbon footprint of ICT
  18. Sowing density
  19. Ansatzkonzeptionen
  20. Incomplete aerobic degradation of the antidiabetic drug Metformin and identification of the bacterial dead-end transformation product Guanylurea
  21. Leading digital innovation in schools
  22. Interacting effects of pollination, water and nutrients on fruit tree performance
  23. Determination of brand-equity from a consumer-oriented perspective