Robin Naidoo

Biographic Data

ID5585902
NAMERobin Naidoo
GIVEN NAMESRobin
FAMILY NAMENaidoo
SIGNATURENAIDOO R
AFFILIATIONSWWF‐US 1250 24th Street NW Washington D.C. 20037 U.S.A.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Tourism in protected and conserved areas amid the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAnna Spenceley, Steve McCool et al.ARTICLEPARKS2021

    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a global impact on the tourism sector. With tourism numbers dramatically reduced, millions of jobs could be lost, and progress made in equality and sustainable economic growth could be rolled back. Widespread reports of dramatic changes to protected and conserved1 area visitation have negative consequences for conservation finances, tourism businesses and the livelihoods of people who supply labour, goods and service…

  • Science Versus Ideology in Community-Based Conservation

    Rennie Naidoo, Robin Naidoo et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2021References: 2

    This article refers to:Science for Success—A Conflict of Interest? Researcher Position and Reflexivity in Socio-Ecological Research for CBNRM in Namibia

  • Reset Sustainable Development Goals for a pandemic world

    Open AccessRennie Naidoo, Robin Naidoo et al.ARTICLENature2020

  • Tourism opportunities drive woodland and wildlife conservation outcomes of community-based conservation in Namibia's Zambezi region

    Open AccessMaximilian Meyer, Ekkehard Klingelhoeffer et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2020Cited by: 3References: 3

    Initiatives to promote community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) have been evaluated with mixed results in socio-economic and ecological outcome dimensions. In Namibia, community conservancies are being established since the 1990s mainly to reconcile wildlife conservation and rural development. As Namibia gears up for participation in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), land use and land cover change an…

  • Complementary benefits of tourism and hunting to communal conservancies in Namibia

    Open AccessRennie Naidoo, Robin Naidoo et al.ARTICLEConservation Biology2016

    Tourism and hunting both generate substantial revenues for communities and private operators in Africa, but few studies have quantitatively examined the trade‐offs and synergies that may result from these two activities. We evaluated financial and in‐kind benefit streams from tourism and hunting on 77 communal conservancies in Namibia from 1998 to 2013, where community‐based wildlife conservation has been promoted as a land‐use that complements t…

  • Walk on the Wild Side

    Open AccessAndrew Balmford, Jonathan Green et al.ARTICLEPLOS Biology2015

    How often do people visit the world's protected areas (PAs)? Despite PAs covering one-eighth of the land and being a major focus of nature-based recreation and tourism, we don't know. To address this, we compiled a globally-representative database of visits to PAs and built region-specific models predicting visit rates from PA size, local population size, remoteness, natural attractiveness, and national income. Applying these models to all but th…

  • Community-based conservation reduces sexual risk factors for HIV among men

    Open AccessRennie Naidoo, Robin Naidoo et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2013

    BACKGROUND: Despite numerous programs to combat the global HIV and AIDS pandemic, infection rates remain high, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where two-thirds of all people living with HIV reside. Here, we describe how we used rigorous program evaluation methods to assess the effectiveness of a community-based natural resource management program that "mainstreamed" HIV awareness and prevention activities within rural communities in Namibia. FI…

  • Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales

    Open AccessErik Nelson, Guillermo Mendoza et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Ecology and the…2009

    Nature provides a wide range of benefits to people. There is increasing consensus about the importance of incorporating these “ecosystem services” into resource management decisions, but quantifying the levels and values of these services has proven difficult. We use a spatially explicit modeling tool, Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to predict changes in ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, and commod…

  • Ecosystem Services and Economic Theory

    Open AccessBrendan Fisher, Kerry Turner et al.ARTICLEEcological Applications2008

    It has become essential in policy and decision‐making circles to think about the economic benefits (in addition to moral and scientific motivations) humans derive from well‐functioning ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem services has been developed to address this link between ecosystems and human welfare. Since policy decisions are often evaluated through cost–benefit assessments, an economic analysis can help make ecosystem service research op…

  • Mapping the Economic Costs and Benefits of Conservation

    Open AccessRennie Naidoo, Robin Naidoo et al.ARTICLEPLOS Biology2006

    Resources for biodiversity conservation are severely limited, requiring strategic investment. Understanding both the economic benefits and costs of conserving ecosystems will help to allocate scarce dollars most efficiently. However, although cost-benefit analyses are common in many areas of policy, they are not typically used in conservation planning. We conducted a spatial evaluation of the costs and benefits of conservation for a landscape in …