Community development, natural resource management and biodiversity conservation in the Sierra de Manantlan Biosphere, Mexico

1998 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Gerritsen
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Sierra De Manantlán

The implied significance of integrative geographical information systems in sustainable tourism and comprehensive community development in Musina Municipality, South Africa

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Azwindini Isaac Ramaano
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Content Type

PurposeThe purpose of the paper was to explore the latent function of geographic information systems (GIS) in sustainable tourism, community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) and local community development in Southern Africa, broadly Africa, and diverse rural areas elsewhere globally. Hence, significantly liaising with data and literature review on the Musina Municipality natural resource management, livelihoods, and tourism development issues in Limpopo Province, South Africa.Design/methodology/approachThe study utilizes a general literature review, document reviews, focus group discussions and field observations to examine the Musina Municipality's rural, environmental and tourism resources management situations along with African and worldwide pertinent implications. The study benchmarks with CBNRM and GIS in sustainable tourism nature within the Musina Municipality.FindingsThe study reveals a fitter dormant-synergetic link among tourism and agrarian (rural) exercises that GIS along a concept of CBNRM can expand within the Municipality. Hence, the study has presented a necessity for a proper and a GIS-unified tourism approach to permit the local communities in Musina Municipality and towards the entire continent.Originality/valueSeveral rural populations in Southern Africa and Africa broadly dwell in low-income areas; Musina Municipality is no exception. Such environs are rich in natural biodiversity, including tourism entities host regions. GIS, sustainable tourism and CBNRM can create a gestalt of local community development projects within such milieus.

scholarly journals The state of capacity development evaluation in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management

Oryx ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Eleanor J. Sterling ◽  
Amanda Sigouin ◽  
Erin Betley ◽  
Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek ◽  
Jennifer N. Solomon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Causal Model ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
Evidence Map ◽  
Development Interventions ◽  
Development Evaluation

Abstract Capacity development is critical to long-term conservation success, yet we lack a robust and rigorous understanding of how well its effects are being evaluated. A comprehensive summary of who is monitoring and evaluating capacity development interventions, what is being evaluated and how, would help in the development of evidence-based guidance to inform design and implementation decisions for future capacity development interventions and evaluations of their effectiveness. We built an evidence map by reviewing peer-reviewed and grey literature published since 2000, to identify case studies evaluating capacity development interventions in biodiversity conservation and natural resource management. We used inductive and deductive approaches to develop a coding strategy for studies that met our criteria, extracting data on the type of capacity development intervention, evaluation methods, data and analysis types, categories of outputs and outcomes assessed, and whether the study had a clear causal model and/or used a systems approach. We found that almost all studies assessed multiple outcome types: most frequent was change in knowledge, followed by behaviour, then attitude. Few studies evaluated conservation outcomes. Less than half included an explicit causal model linking interventions to expected outcomes. Half of the studies considered external factors that could influence the efficacy of the capacity development intervention, and few used an explicit systems approach. We used framework synthesis to situate our evidence map within the broader literature on capacity development evaluation. Our evidence map (including a visual heat map) highlights areas of low and high representation in investment in research on the evaluation of capacity development.

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