Trade-offs between conservation and development in community-based management initiatives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12960458
AutoresMaría Del Mar Delgado-Serrano (0000-0003-0171-6097, University of Córdoba, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen11
Número2
Páginas969-991
Fecha de publicación2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281
EditorialUbiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18352/ijc.792
OpenAlexW2766483366
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas54

Community-based management (CBM) has attracted much interest as a conservation and development strategy in natural resource-dependent communities in recent decades. However, most initiatives fail to achieve both objectives. The most analyzed CBM strategies in the literature include donor- and government-driven initiatives, but other types exist as well. The research objective was to identify the internal and external factors that influence the trade-offs between conservation and development in three internally driven CBM initiatives in Latin America: a long-term indigenous-based conservation strategy, the constitutional recognition of ancestral land rights of Afro-American communities and artisanal fisheries management. The results showed that livelihoods depend on natural resources, but none of the cases identified a balance between conservation and development. Community activities are not the primary cause of natural resource degradation. Conservation is supported by ethnicity and cultural values and is challenged by current development models and worldviews that push intensification of resource use and by power asymmetries. Internal pressures include limited rule compliance and enforcement authority to stop free-riding and unauthorized activities. Internal challenges for development include the lack of capacities, rigid rules and non-inclusive CBM, and the inertia and risk aversion that prevail in many communities. External challenges include the lack of economic incentives and compensation models that enable welfare opportunities linked to sustainable management

Business · Community-based conservation · Economics · Enforcement · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Government (linguistics · Incentive · Indigenous · Livelihood · Natural resource · Natural resource economics · Natural resource management · Political science · Public economics · Resource (disambiguation · Sustainable development · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Innovation and Socioeconomic Development · Ecology