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PCLG Digest 

February 2020

Edition Two

Edition two of February’s PCLG Digest features 34 new resources. And briefly, other relevant news –
 
The University of East Anglia has free online course starting on 20 April on environmental justice and environmental problems, featuring topics like deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change and other environmental issues.


- Olivia and Francesca (pclg@iied.org)

In this issue

Featured publications - PCLG's top reads!

1. Gaodirelwe I, Motsholapheko M and G Masunga (2020) Community perceptions of wildlife management strategies and subsistence poaching in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. DOI: 10.1080/10871209.2020.1727589
 
2. Naro E, et al (2020) Syndicate recruitment, perceptions, and problem solving in Namibian rhinoceros protection. Biological Conservation. DOI:
10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108481
 
3. Thanh Pham T (2020) Tourism in marine protected areas: Can it be considered as an alternative livelihood for local communities? Marine Policy. DOI:
10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103891 (Open access)
 
4. Zafra-Calvo N and J Geldmann (2020) Protected areas to deliver biodiversity need management effectiveness and equity. Global Ecology and Conservation. DOI:
10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01026 (Open access)

Human-wildlife conflict

5. Compaore A, et al (2020) Correlation between increased human-elephant conflict and poaching of elephants in Burkina Faso (West Africa). European Journal of Wildlife Research. DOI: 10.1007/s10344-019-1329-8
 
6. Siljander M, et al (2020) Primates on the farm – spatial patterns of human–wildlife conflict in forest-agricultural landscape mosaic in Taita Hills, Kenya. Applied Geography. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2020.102185

Hunting

7. Friant S, et al (2020) Eating bushmeat improves food security in a biodiversity and infectious disease “hotspot”. EcoHealth. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-020-01473-0

8. Nahar N, et al (2020) Hunting bats for human consumption in Bangladesh. EcoHealth. DOI: 10.1007/s10393-020-01468-x
 
9. Strong M and J Silva (2020) Impacts of hunting prohibitions on multidimensional well-being. Biological Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108451

Interesting methodological approaches

10. Barrios-Garrido H, Shimada T, Diedrich A and M Hamann (2020) Conservation and Enforcement Capacity index (CECi): Integrating human development, economy, and marine turtle status. Journal of Environmental Management. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110311
 
11. Charles A, Loucks L, Berkes F and D Armitage (2020) Community science: A typology and its implications for governance of social-ecological systems. Environmental Science & Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.01.019 (Open access)
 
12. Milcu A-I, Martín-López B, Lam D and D Lang (2020) Research pathways to foster transformation: Linking sustainability science and social-ecological systems research. Ecology and Society. DOI: 10.5751/ES-11332-250113 (Open access)
 
13. Milner-Gulland EJ, et al (2020) Understanding local resource users’ behaviour, perspectives and priorities to underpin conservation practice. In Sutherland W, et al (eds) Conservation Research, Policy and Practice, Cambridge University Press. Available here
 
14. Root-Bernstein M (2020) Tacit working models of human behavioural change I: Implementation of conservation projects. Ambio. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-019-01298-4

PES

15. Dang X, et al (2020) Do environmental conservation programs contribute to sustainable livelihoods? Evidence from China's grain-for-green program in northern Shaanxi province. Science of the Total Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137436
 
16. Jones K, et al (2020) The impact of paying for forest conservation on perceived tenure security in Ecuador. Conservation Letters. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12710 (Open access)
 
17. Poudyal B, Maraseni T, Cockfield G and B Bhattarai (2020) Recognition of historical contribution of indigenous peoples and local communities through benefit sharing plans (BSPs) in REDD+. Environmental Science and Policy. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.01.022
 
18. Silveira-Junior W, et al (2020) Payment for environmental services: Alleviating the conflict of parks versus people. Journal of Tropical Forest Science. Available here

19. Skutsch M and E Turnhout (2020) REDD+: If communities are the solution, what is the problem? World Development. DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104942 (Open access)

Social impacts of PAs

20. Das S, et al (2020) Wildlife conservation perspective of fringe villagers and their socio-economic dependency: A case study from Borail Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India. In Roy N, et al (eds) Socio-economic and Eco-biological Dimensions in Resource use and Conservation. Springer, Cham. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32463-6_14
 
21. Moswete N, Thapa B and W Darley (2020) Local communities’ attitudes and support towards the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park in southwest Botswana. Sustainability. DOI: 10.3390/su12041524 (Open access)
 
22. Muralidharan R and N Rai (2020) Violent maritime spaces: Conservation and security in Gulf of Mannar Marine National Park, India. Political Geography. DOI: 10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102160
 
23. Sahabo A (2019) Examining livelihood benefits derived by Gashaka Gumti National Park communities in North Eastern Nigeria. Journal of the Environment. Available here (Open access)

Tourism

24. Bagri S and D Kala (2020) Identification and assessment of offbeat destinations for community-based ecotourism development and promotion in Uttarakhand, India. In Kala D and S Bagri (eds) Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism, IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1302-6.ch004
 
25. Mangubhai S, et al (2020) Contributions of tourism-based Marine Conservation Agreements to natural resource management in Fiji. Ecological Economics. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106607
 
26. Musavengane R and R Kloppers (2020) Social capital: An investment towards community resilience in the collaborative natural resources management of community-based tourism schemes. Tourism Management Perspectives. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100654
 
27. Rantšo T and K Ketsi (2020) The state and community-based projects of environmental conservation in promoting mountain ecotourism in Lesotho. In Kala D and S Bagri (eds) Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism, IGI Global. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1302-6.ch014

Traditional knowledge

28. Malmer P, Masterson V, Austin B and M Tengӧ (2020) Mobilisation of indigenous and local knowledge as a source of useable evidence for conservation partnerships. In Sutherland W, et al (eds) Conservation Research, Policy and Practice, Cambridge University Press. Available here
 
29. Santos F, et al (2020) Traditional knowledge and perception of birds in the Parnaíba Delta environmental protection area, Northeast Brazil. Acta Scientiarum. Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.4025/actascibiolsci.v42i1.47722 (Open access)

30. Titumir R, Afrin T and M Islam (2020) Traditional knowledge, institutions and human sociality in sustainable use and conservation of biodiversity of the Sundarbans of Bangladesh. In Saito O, Subramanian S, Hashimoto S and K Takeuchi K (eds) Managing Socio-ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes for Sustainable Communities in Asia. Springer, Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-1133-2_5 (Open access)

Wildlife trade (legal and illegal)

31. Sollund R and S Runhovde (2020) Responses to wildlife crime in post-colonial times. Who fares best? The British Journal of Criminology. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azaa005
 
32. Veríssimo D, et al (2020) Audience research as a cornerstone of demand management interventions for illegal wildlife products: Demarketing sea turtle meat and eggs. Conservation Science and Practice. DOI: 10.1111/csp2.164 (Open access)
 
33. Workman C, et al (2020) Emerging illegal wildlife trade issues: A global horizon scan. Conservation Letters. Available here
 
34. Yeager J, Baquero R and A Zarling (2020) Mediating ethical considerations in the conservation and sustainable biocommerce of the jewels of the rainforest. Journal for Nature Conservation. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2020.125803
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