Neal Hockley

Biographic Data

ID107880
NAMENeal Hockley
GIVEN NAMESNeal
FAMILY NAMEHockley
SIGNATUREHOCKLEY N
AFFILIATIONSBangor University
ORCID0000-0002-7426-8152
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS130
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • Constraints on Rice Cultivation in Eastern Madagascar: Which Factors Matter to Smallholders, and Which Influence Food Security

    Open AccessSaskia Dröge, Mahesh Poudyal et al.ARTICLEHuman Ecology2022

    In the eastern rainforests of Madagascar, rainfed swidden rice cultivation remains prevalent despite efforts to encourage uptake of irrigated systems to reduce deforestation. We used agricultural surveys with a stratified sample of 171 households to investigate constraints on and productivity of irrigated and rainfed rice perceived by farmers, and actual rice yields. Irrigated rice plots had higher median yields (1.72 t/ha compared to 0.62 t/ha),…

  • Are policies for decentralised forest governance designed to achieve full devolution? Evidence from Eastern Africa

    Kajenje Magessa, Sophie Wynne‐jone et al.ARTICLEThe International Forestry Review2020

    Decentralised forest management approaches are ostensibly designed to increase community involvement in forest management, yet have had mixed success in practice. We present a comparative study across multiple countries in Eastern Africa of how far decentralised forest policies are designed to achieve devolution. We adopt the decentralisation framework developed by Agrawal and Ribot to explore whether, and how, devolution is specified in Tanzania…

  • Does Tanzanian participatory forest management policy achieve its governance objectives

    Open AccessKajenje Magessa, Sophie Wynne‐jone et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2019Cited by: 4References: 18

  • Estimating welfare impacts where property rights are contested: Methodological and policy implications

    Open AccessO Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Jette B Jacobsen et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2018Cited by: 3References: 44

    Where rights over natural resources are contested, the effectiveness of conservation may be undermined and it can be difficult to estimate the welfare impacts of conservation restrictions on local people. In particular, researchers face the dilemma of estimating respondents’ Willingness To Pay (WTP) for rights to resources, or their Willingness To Accept (WTA) compensation for foregoing these rights. We conducted a discrete choice experiment with…

  • Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence on the True Local Welfare Costs of Forest Conservation in Madagascar: Are Discrete Choice Experiments a Valid ex ante Tool

    Open AccessO Sarobidy Rakotonarivo, Jette B Jacobsen et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2017Cited by: 9References: 10

    Protected areas may impose local welfare costs through the enforcement of use restrictions. Predicting their welfare impacts before their establishment could help with the design of compensation schemes. Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are increasingly used for ex ante evaluations but their validity is largely untested in low-income settings. Using a case study of a new REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) proje…

  • Shared values and deliberative valuation: Future directions

    Open AccessJasper O Kenter, Rosalind Bryce et al.ARTICLEEcosystem Services2016

    Valuation that focuses only on individual values evades the substantial collective and intersubjective meanings, significance and value from ecosystems. Shared, plural and cultural values of ecosystems constitute a diffuse and interdisciplinary field of research, covering an area that links questions around value ontology, elicitation and aggregation with questions of participation, ethics, and social justice. Synthesising understanding from vari…

  • Can Redd+ social safeguards reach the ‘right’ people? Lessons from Madagascar

    Open AccessMahesh Poudyal, Bruno Ramamonjisoa et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2016Cited by: 16References: 8

    There is extensive debate about the potential impact of the climate mechanism REDD+ on the welfare of forest-dwelling people. To provide emission reductions, REDD+ must slow the rate of deforestation and forest degradation: such a change will tend to result in local opportunity cost to farmers at the forest frontier. Social safeguard processes to mitigate negative impacts of REDD+ are being developed and can learn from existing safeguard procedur…

  • Alien invasions and livelihoods: Economic benefits of invasive Australian Red Claw crayfish in Jamaica

    Open AccessThomas Pienkowski, Sophie Williams et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2015

  • What are shared and social values of ecosystems

    Open AccessJasper O Kenter, Liz O’brien et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2015Cited by: 98References: 8

  • Governing ancestral land in Madagascar

    Open AccessBarry Ferguson, Charlie J Gardner et al.CHAPTERGovernance for Justice and…2014

    Madagascar has long been renowned for its unique and threatened biodiversity, as well as the rich and diverse cultures of the Malagasy people and the severe poverty and exposure to natural disaster that they endure. The island has frequently appeared in the media, however, as a result of political turmoil and natural resource governance dynamics. The infamous Daewoo land deal, subsequent political protests and the ousting of the country’s preside…

  • The Importance of Taboos and Social Norms to Conservation in Madagascar

    Open AccessJulia P G Jones, Mijasoa M Andriamarovololona et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2008

    Informal institutions governing the use of wild species are present in many societies. A system of prohibitions known as fady is central to Malagasy culture. We examined whether fady that relate to the use of natural resources in the eastern rainforests of Madagascar play an important conservation role. Prohibitions ranged from strict taboos in which a species or area was forbidden by the ancestors to social norms that concerned acceptable behavi…