Biodiversity conservation & management – Page 5

Lessons for Research Policy and Practice: The Case of Co-enquiry Research with Rural Communities

By Esteve | 12/08/201612/11/2016 by Esteve

Have you ever worked in multi-partner projects aimed at working for rather than with communities? Have you experienced the challenges of doing so? How have you overcome such challenges and transform them into opportunities? In this article, we explore the relationship between institutional funding for research and community-based or co-enquiry research practice. We describe the implementation of co-enquiry research in the COMBIOSERVE project, which was funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for research and innovation,…

Incentivising REDD+?

By Esteve | 24/06/201612/11/2016 by Esteve

This article, led by my former MSc student Tessa Dunlop, investigates the current state of development and performance of REDD+ benefit-sharing mechanisms in five countries. Benefit distribution plays a central role in incentivizing action in REDD+. Conceived as a global performance-based incentive mechanism to reduce land-use emissions in developing countries, REDD+ involves changes in resource governance by many actors at multiple scales, in order to minimize the climate impact of land-use activities or to maximize…

Justice and conservation: the need to incorporate recognition

By Esteve | 12/04/201612/11/2016 by Esteve

In light of the Aichi target to manage protected areas equitably by 2020, we ask in this article how the conservation sector should be incorporating concerns for social justice. We focus in particular on ‘recognition’, because it is the least well understood aspect of environmental justice, and yet highly relevant to conservation because of its concern with respect for local knowledge and cultures. In order to explore the meaning of recognition in the conservation context, we…

Land-based climate change mitigation, land grabbing and conflict

By Esteve | 09/06/201513/10/2016 by Esteve

This is the first Working Paper of the MOSAIC project, a 4-year international research project aimed at studying the interesection between land-based climate change mitigation, land grabbing and conflict, in Asian countries in political transition, i.e. Cambodia and Myanmar. The project involves grassroots civil society organizations, NGOs and academic partners from these two countries, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and Canada. The Working Paper, led by Carol Hunsberger at the University of Western Ontario, introduces the…

How do biosphere reserves influence local vulnerability and adaptation?

By Esteve | 06/06/201513/10/2016 by Esteve

In a new paper led by my colleague Isabel Ruiz-Mallén and published online in the journal Global Environmental Change, we interrogate how biosphere reserves can influence local vulnerability and adaptation. Based on a comparative study of four rural communities in Mexico and Bolivia we explore if resource management regulations can increase vulnerability and compromise individual and collective agency for adaptation. We use focus groups, interviews and scoring exercises to analyse the influence of reserve management…