PCLG Digest
December 2019
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This edition of PCLG digest features 62 new resources. And briefly, other relevant news –
Workshops - Registration is open for a workshop this October on the Fundamentals of Conservation Conflict Transformation from the Centre for Conservation Peacebuilding in Washington DC.
Grants & awards - The American Society of Primatologists invites grant proposals for general Research awards and Deb Moore Memorial awards, apply by March 15. You have until 12 January to apply for the Kinship Conservation Fellowship.
Call for papers -
- Bratislava Conference on Earth System Governance, 15-17 September 2020 – “Earth System Governance in turbulent times: prospects for political and behavioural responses”
- Environment and Conservation are seeking contributions for a thematic issue on Biodiversity Revisited: Developing new approaches to sustain life on Earth, deadline 1 April.
Analyst & research positions –
- IUCN need a Senior Analyst on elephant and rhino trade.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe University has a Professorship for Social Ecology / Transdisciplinary Research on Society-Nature Relations.
- The University of Cambridge are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the collation of scientific evidence for the effective management of biodiversity.
- Kings College London and IIED have a PhD studentship on the contribution of equitable governance of protected areas to achieving effective biodiversity conservation.
- And, Lund University have a PhD studentship on the politics of forest futures.
- Olivia and Francesca (pclg@iied.org)
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Featured publications - PCLG's top reads this month!
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1. Alpízar F and P Ferraro (2019) The environmental effects of poverty programs and the poverty effects of environmental programs: The missing RCTs. World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104783 (Open access)
2. Ide T (2019) The dark side of environmental peacebuilding. World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104777
3. Napoletano B and B Clark (2019) An ecological-marxist response to the Half-Earth Project. Conservation and Society. DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_19_99 (Open access)
4. Pimbert M and G Borrini-Feyerabend (2019) Nourishing life— territories of life and food sovereignty. Policy Brief of the ICCA Consortium. Available here (Open access)
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Biodiversity and development
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5. Diniz J, Guéneau S and A Sandra (2019) Conservation of the Cerrado from the valorisation of socio-biodiversity products: The importance of production chains and local marketing channels. Pesquisa Florestal Brasileira. Available here
6. Griffiths V, et al (2019) Incorporating local nature-based cultural values into biodiversity No Net Loss strategies. World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104858
7. Hugé J, et al (2019) EIA-driven biodiversity mainstreaming in development cooperation: Confronting expectations and practice in the DR Congo. Environmental Science & Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2019.11.003
8. Jamila Haider L, Boonstra W, Akobirshoeva A and M Schlüter (2019) Effects of development interventions on biocultural diversity: A case study from the Pamir Mountains. Agriculture and Human Values. DOI: 10.1007/s10460-019-10005-8 (Open access)
9. Malerba D (2019) Poverty alleviation and local environmental degradation: An empirical analysis in Colombia. World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104776
10. Sayer J, et al (2019) SDG 15: Life on land – the central role of forests in sustainable development. In Katila P, et al (eds) Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People. DOI: 10.1017/9781108765015.017 (Open access)
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Community-based forest management
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11. Adhikary A, Jhaveri N, Karki R and N Paudel (2019) Analysing the investment effects of forest rights devolution in Nepal’s community-managed forest enterprises. Working Paper, CIFOR. Available here (PDF)
12. Basnyat B, Treue T and R Pokharel (2019) Bureaucratic recentralisation of Nepal's community forestry sector. International Forestry Review. DOI: 10.1505/146554819827906861
13. Bijaya G, Jyoti B, Zengrang X and L Can (2019) Contribution of community forestry in poverty reduction: Case study of multiple community forests of Bajhang District, Nepal. Journal of Resources and Ecology. DOI: 10.5814/j.issn.1674-764x.2019.06.008
14. Kasim M (2019) Local participation as an effective means of enhancing sense of ownership in forest management: The case of Jello Forest, West Hararghe Zone, Oromia Regional State. Journal of Resources Development and Management. Available here (PDF)
15. Loivaranta T (2019) Posthuman lawscapes of Indigenous community forests in Central India. The Geographic Journal. DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12342
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Environmental (in)justice and equity
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16. Althor G and B Witt (2019) A quantitative systematic review of distributive environmental justice literature: A rich history and the need for an enterprising future. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 10.1007/s13412-019-00582-9 (Open access)
17. Bedane B, Cassiman A and M Breusers (2019) Conservation trapped in ethno-regional politics: Multiple faces of the struggles over Nechisar National Park (Southern Ethiopia). Conservation and Society. DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_19_19 (Open access)
18. Gellers J and C Jeffords (2019) Environmental rights in the Asia Pacific region: Taking stock and assessing impacts. Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law. Available here
19. Lynch M, Long M and P Stretesky (2019) Green criminology and green theories of justice an introduction to a political economic view of eco-justice. Palgrave Macmillan. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28573-9
20. Thing S (2019) Politics of conservation, moral ecology and resistance by the Sonaha indigenous minorities of Nepal. In Griffan C, Jones R and I Robertson (eds) Moral Ecologies - Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance. Palgrave Macmillan. Available here
21. Thing S (2020) Riverscape as biocultural heritage: A local indigenous social movement contesting a national park in Nepal. In Mozaffari A and T Jones (eds) Heritage movements in Asia: Cultural heritage activism, politics, and identity. Berghahn. Available here
22. Toomey A (2019) The making of a conservation landscape: Towards a practice of interdependence. Conservation and Society. DOI: 10.4103/cs.cs_18_115 (Open access)
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23. Lawlor K, et al (2019) SDG 1: No poverty – impacts of social protection, tenure security and building resilience on forests. In Katila P, et al (eds) Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People. DOI: 10.1017/9781108765015.003 (Open access)
24. Sunderland T, et al (2019) SDG 2: Zero hunger – challenging the hegemony of monoculture agriculture for forests and people. In Katila P, et al (eds) Sustainable Development Goals: Their Impacts on Forests and People. DOI: 10.1017/9781108765015.004 (Open access)
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25. Baynes J, Herbohn J, Gregorio N and W Unsworth (2019) Equity for women and marginalised groups in patriarchal societies during forest landscape restoration: The controlling influence of tradition and culture. Environment and Conservation. DOI: 10.1017/S0376892919000079
26. Manyungwa C, Hara M and S Chimatiro (2019) Women’s engagement in and outcomes from small-scale fisheries value chains in Malawi: Effects of social relations. Maritime Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s40152-019-00156-z (Open access)
27. Nunan F and D Cepić (2019) Women and fisheries co-management: Limits to participation on Lake Victoria. Fisheries Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2019.105454
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Governance and management
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28. Artelle K, et al (2019) Supporting resurgent Indigenous-led governance: A nascent mechanism for just and effective conservation. Biological Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108284 (Open access)
29. Belecky M, Singh R and W Moreto (2019) Life on the frontline 2019: A global survey of the working conditions of rangers. WWF. Available here (Open access)
30. Chuenpagdee R, et al (2019) Governing from images: Marine protected areas as case illustrations. Journal for Nature Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2019.125756 (Open access)
31. Cinner J, et al (2019) Sixteen years of social and ecological dynamics reveal challenges and opportunities for adaptive management in sustaining the commons. PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1914812116 (Open access)
32. Freestone D (2019) Sustainable development, ocean governance and marine protected areas. Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy. 10.1163/24519391-00402002
33. Fortnam M (2019) Forces opposing sustainability transformations: Institutionalisation of ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management. Ecology and Society. DOI: 10.5751/ES-10996-240433 (Open access)
34. Gurney G, et al (2019) Implementing a social-ecological systems framework for conservation monitoring: Lessons from a multi-country coral reef program. Biological Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108298
35. Nunan F (2019) Governing renewable natural resources: Theories and Frameworks. Routledge. Available here
36. Perera P and R Morimoto (2019) Poverty, institutions and environmental degradation: Fishing commons governance and the livelihood of rural households amid mangrove deforestation in Puttalam, Sri Lanka. Working Paper, Department of Economics, SOAS. Available here (Open access)
37. Singh P, Rashid M, Azman A and I Ali (2019) Fishery policies and acts in present context-experiences from coastal Bangladesh. Indian Journal of Ecology. Available here (PDF)
38. Stolton S, et al (2019) Lessons learned from 18 years of implementing the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT): A perspective from the METT developers and implementers. PARKS. DOI: 10.2305/IUCN.CH.2019.PARKS‐25‐2SS.en (PDF)
39. Tavares de Freitas C, et al (2019) Co‐management of culturally important species: A tool to promote biodiversity conservation and human well‐being. People and Nature. DOI: 10.1002/pan3.10064 (Open access)
40. Upton S, Tarin C, Sowards S and K Yang (2019) Rare’s conservation campaigns: Community decision making and public participation in global contexts. In Hunt K, Walker G and S Depoe (eds) Breaking Boundaries Innovative Practices in Environmental Communication and Public Participation, SUNY Press. Available here
41. Young N, Evangelista P, Mengitsu T and S Leisz (2019) Twenty-three years of forest cover change in protected areas under different governance strategies: A case study from Ethiopia’s southern highlands. Land Use Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104426
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42. Beattie K, et al (2019) Predicting livestock depredation risk by African lions (Panthera leo) in a multi-use area of northern Tanzania. European Journal of Wildlife Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10344-019-1348-5 (Open access)
43. Brenner L and E Covelli Metcalf (2019) Beyond the tolerance/intolerance dichotomy: incorporating attitudes and acceptability into a robust definition of social tolerance of wildlife. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2019.1702741
44. Gloriose U (2019) Community perceptions of human-wildlife conflicts and the compensation scheme around Nyungwe National Park (Rwanda). International Journal of Natural Resource Ecology and Management. DOI: 10.11648/j.ijnrem.20190406.15 (Open access)
45. Hussain S (2019) The snow leopard and the goat: Politics of conservation in the western Himalayas. University of Washington Press, Seattle. DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvthhdk0
46. Kifle Z and A Bekele (2019) Human–gelada conflict and attitude of the local community toward the conservation of the Southern Gelada (Theropithecus gelada obscurus) around Borena Saynit National Park, Ethiopia. Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1007/s00267-019-01246-8 (Open access)
47. Petracca L, et al (2019) The effectiveness of hazing African lions as a conflict mitigation tool: implications for carnivore management. Ecosphere. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2967 (Open access)
48. Sadie Y (2019) Human-wildlife conflict and wildlife conservation: Attitudes of the Ovahimbas in Namibia. Conflict Trends, African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes. Available here (Open access)
49. Spencer K, et al (2019) Livestock guarding dogs enable human-carnivore coexistence: First evidence of equivalent carnivore occupancy on guarded and unguarded farms. Biological Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108256 (Open access)
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Hunting (subsistence, traditional, trophy)
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50. Borgerson C, et al (2019) Wildlife hunting in complex human-environmental systems: How understanding natural resource use and human welfare can improve conservation in the Ankarafantsika National Park, Madagascar. Madagascar Conservation and Development. Available here (Open access)
51. Friant S, et al (2019) Life on the rainforest edge: Food security in the agricultural-forest frontier of Cross River State, Nigeria. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems. DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2019.00113 (Open access)
52. Gonçalves F, et al (2019) A rapid assessment of hunting and bushmeat trade along the roadside between five Angolan major towns. Nature Conservation. DOI: 10.3897/natureconservation.37.37590 (Open access)
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53. Asquith N (2019) Large-scale randomized control trials of incentive-based conservation: What have we learned? World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104785
54. Cisneros E, Börner J, Pagiola S and S Wunder (2019) Impacts of conservation incentives in protected areas: The case of Bolsa Floresta, Brazil. Environment, Natural Resources & Blue Economy. World Bank, Washington DC. Available here (PDF)
55. Hu X, et al (2019) Understanding the relationships between poverty alleviation and ecosystem conservation: Empirical evidence from western China. Frontiers of Earth Science. DOI: 10.1007/s11707-019-0764-x (Open access)
56. Kankeu R, et al (2019) Governing knowledge transfer for deforestation monitoring: Insights from REDD+ projects in the Congo Basin region. Forest Policy and Economics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102081
57. Windey C and G Van Hecken (2019) Contested mappings in a dynamic space: emerging socio-spatial relationships in the context of REDD+. A case from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Landscape Research. DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2019.1691983
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Social impacts of protected areas
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58. Keane A, et al (2019) Impact of Tanzania’s Wildlife Management Areas on household wealth. Nature Sustainability. DOI: 10.1038/s41893-019-0458-0
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59. Meilani M, Andayani W, Faida L and A Maryudi (2019) Ecotourism in Sebangau National Park: An avenue to enhance local community livelihoods while protecting the ecosystem. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/399/1/012112 (Open access)
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Wildlife trade (legal and illegal)
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60. Everatt K, Kokes R and C Lopez Pereira (2019) Evidence of a further emerging threat to lion conservation; targeted poaching for body parts. Biodiversity and Conservation. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-019-01866-w (Open access)
61. Huang L and S-F Chen (2019) What makes tree poachers give up? A case study of forestry law enforcement in Taiwan. Environmental Conservation. DOI: 10.1017/S0376892919000377 (Open access)
62. Kideghesho J (2019) The contribution of research in combating wildlife poaching in Tanzania: Review of existing literature. IntechOpen. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.89909 (Open access)
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