Valuing the impacts of climate change on protected areas in Africa

2005 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra J. Velarde ◽  
Yadvinder Malhi ◽  
Dominic Moran ◽  
Jim Wright ◽  
Salman Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

scholarly journals Can protected areas mitigate the impacts of climate change on bird's species and communities?

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 625-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Gaüzère ◽  
Frédéric Jiguet ◽  
Vincent Devictor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

scholarly journals The capacity to adapt?: communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Bennett ◽  
Philip Dearden ◽  
Alin Kadfak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The health and productivity of marine ecosystems, habitats, and fisheries are deteriorating on the Andaman coast of Thailand. Because of their high dependence on natural resources and proximity to the ocean, coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to climate-induced changes in the marine environment. These communities must also adapt to the impacts of management interventions and conservation initiatives, including marine protected areas, which have livelihood implications. Further, communities on the Andaman coast are also experiencing a range of new economic opportunities associated in particular with tourism and agriculture. These complex and ongoing changes require integrated assessment of, and deliberate planning to increase, the adaptive capacity of communities so that they may respond to: (1) environmental degradation and fisheries declines through effective management interventions or conservation initiatives, (2) new economic opportunities to reduce dependence on fisheries, and (3) the increasing impacts of climate change. Our results are from a mixed methods study, which used surveys and interviews to examine multiple dimensions of the adaptive capacity of seven island communities near marine protected areas on the Andaman coast of Thailand. Results show that communities had low adaptive capacity with respect to environmental degradation and fisheries declines, and to management and conservation interventions, as well as uneven levels of adaptive capacity to economic opportunities. Though communities and households were experiencing the impacts of climate change, especially storm events, changing seasons and weather patterns, and erosion, they were reacting to these changes with limited knowledge of climate change per se. We recommend interventions, in the form of policies, programs, and actions, at multiple scales for increasing the adaptive capacity of Thailand’s coastal communities to change. The analytical and methodological approach used for examining adaptive capacity could be easily modified and applied to other contexts and locales.

scholarly journals Recent and future threats to the Endangered Cuban toad Peltophryne longinasus: potential additive impacts of climate change and habitat loss

Oryx ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlon E. Cobos ◽  
Roberto Alonso Bosch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Habitat Loss ◽  
Prey Availability ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Niche Modelling ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
Risk Of Predation ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

AbstractHabitat loss and climate change are major threats to amphibian species worldwide. We combined niche modelling under various climatic scenarios with analysis of habitat loss and the appropriateness of Cuban protected areas to identify major risk zones for the Endangered Cuban toad Peltophryne longinasus. Four subspecies with disjunct distributions associated with mountain forests are recognized. Our results suggest that the western subspecies, P. longinasus longinasus and P. longinasus cajalbanensis, are at risk from global warming, habitat degradation and potential additive effects. Peltophryne longinasus dunni, in central Cuba, has the lowest threat level related to climate change and habitat loss but could become increasingly threatened by the presence of the infectious disease chytridiomycosis. The eastern subspecies, P. longinasus ramsdeni, faces moderate impacts of climate change and habitat loss; however, low opportunity of migration to new areas and population decline justify a high threatened status for this subspecies. Our results predict minor temperature increases and precipitation decreases in the future. Nevertheless, at the biological level these changes could generate variations in species physiology, vocal behaviour and prey availability, and could probably increase the risk of predation. In Cuba protected areas have contributed to avoiding excessive forest loss but the potential impact of climate change was not considered in their original design. Our findings confirm that all subspecies of P. longinasus are threatened but management measures should be tailored according to the various predicted impacts.

scholarly journals Projected Impacts of Climate Change on the Protected Areas of Myanmar

Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Thazin Nwe ◽  
Robert J. Zomer ◽  
Richard T. Corlett
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Spatial Modeling ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Elevational Range ◽  
Environmental Stratification ◽  
Open Forests ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Protected areas are the backbone of biodiversity conservation but are fixed in space and vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change. Myanmar is exceptionally rich in biodiversity but has a small protected area system. This study aimed to assess the potential vulnerability of this system to climate change. In the absence of good biodiversity data, we used a spatial modeling approach based on a statistically derived bioclimatic stratification (the Global Environmental Stratification, GEnS) to understand the spatial implications of projected climate change for Myanmar’s protected area system by 2050 and 2070. Nine bioclimatic zones and 41 strata were recognized in Myanmar, but their representation in the protected area system varied greatly, with the driest zones especially underrepresented. Under climate change, most zones will shift upslope, with some protected areas projected to change entirely to a new bioclimate. Potential impacts on biodiversity include mountaintop extinctions of species endemic to isolated peaks, loss of climate specialists from small protected areas and those with little elevational range, and woody encroachment into savannas and open forests as a result of both climate change and rising atmospheric CO2. Myanmar needs larger, better connected, and more representative protected areas, but political, social, and economic problems make this difficult.

Projected impacts of climate change on protected areas

Biodiversity ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 100-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Hewson ◽  
Erica Ashkenazi ◽  
Sandy Andelman ◽  
Marc Steininger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change and protected areas policy, planning and management in Canada's boreal forest

2007 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 347-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Scott ◽  
Christopher Lemieux
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Policy Planning ◽  
International Scientific Community ◽  
System Planning ◽  
Proactive Management ◽  
Planning And Management ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

For over a decade, the international scientific community and protected areas professionals have recognized that climate change will have critical implications for protected areas policy, planning and management. However, only a limited literature to date has focused on the implications of climate change for specific protected areas jurisdictions (i.e., national and/or provincial/territorial parks systems). This paper provides an overview of the potential impacts of climate change on Canada's system of boreal protected areas, highlighting the cross-jurisdictional policy, planning and management sensitivities in this biome. Results of a nation-wide climate change survey with protected area organizations are also presented, which reveal a strong incongruity between the perceived salience of climate change for protected area policy and management and a lack of available resources to provide capacity to deal with the challenge of climate change adaptation. To safeguard against the limitations of traditional protected areas system planning, and to ensure the persistence of boreal ecodiversity over the 21st century and beyond, we call for more rigorous and practical discussion by Canadian protected areas agencies and organizations on the issue of climate change and for a collective and proactive management response. Key words: protected areas, climate change, boreal forest, Canada, adaptation, impacts, policy, planning, management

River conservation in a changing world: invertebrate diversity and spatial prioritisation in south-eastern coastal Australia

2011 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 300 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Turak ◽  
R. Marchant ◽  
L. A. Barmuta ◽  
J. Davis ◽  
S. Choy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Macroinvertebrate Assemblages ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Biodiversity Surrogates ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
River Conservation ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Concentration of human populations with likely impacts of climate change present major challenges for river conservation in the south-eastern coastal region of Australia. Quantitative methods for spatial prioritisation of conservation actions can play a major role in meeting these challenges. We examined how these methods may be applied to help plan for potential impacts of climate change in the region, using macroinvertebrate assemblages as surrogates of river biodiversity. Environmental gradients explaining broad-scale patterns in the composition of macroinvertebrate assemblages are well represented in protected areas; however, their effectiveness for conserving river biodiversity with climate change depends on linking management inside and outside protected areas. Projected increases in temperature and sea level may be used to prioritise conservation to counter likely major impacts in high-altitude zones and the coastal fringes, whereas elsewhere, considerable uncertainty remains in the absence of better downscaled projections of rainfall. Applying such spatial prioritisations using biodiversity surrogates could help river-focussed conservation around the world.

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