A Serious Game and Artificial Agents to Support Intercultural Participatory Management of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation and Social Inclusion

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Briot ◽  
Marta de Azevedo Irving ◽  
Gustavo Mendes de Melo ◽  
Jose Eurico Filho Vasconcelos ◽  
Isabelle Alvarez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Artificial Agents

scholarly journals Participatory Management of Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation and Social Inclusion

2017 ◽  
pp. 295-332
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Briot ◽  
Marta de Azevedo Irving ◽  
José Eurico Vasconcelos Filho ◽  
Gustavo Mendes de Melo ◽  
Isabelle Alvarez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Technical Assistance ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Agent Simulation ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Role Playing Game

The objective of this paper is to reflect on our experience in a serious game research project, named SimParc, about multi-agent support for participatory management of protected areas for biodiversity conservation and social inclusion. Our project has a clear filiation with the MAS-RPG methodology developed by the ComMod action-research community, where multi-agent simulation (MAS) computes the dynamics of the resources and role-playing game (RPG) represents the actions and dialogue between stakeholders about the resources. We have explored some specific directions, such as: dialogue support for negotiation; argumentation-based decision making and its explanation; technical assistance to the players based on viability modeling. In our project, multi-agent based simulation focuses on the negotiation process itself, performed by human players and some artificial participants/agents, rather than on the simulation of the resources dynamics. Meanwhile, we have also reintroduced the modeling of the socioecosystem dynamics, but as a local technical assistance/analysis tool for the players.

scholarly journals EXCELLENCE MODEL IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: THE CAETÉS ECOLOGICAL STATION CASE

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIANNINA CYSNEIROS BEZERRA ◽  
RENATA MARIA CAMINHA MENDES DE OLIVEIRA CARVALHO ◽  
MARÍLIA REGINA COSTA CASTRO LYRA
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Conservation Units ◽  
Conservation Policies ◽  
Unit Management ◽  
Model Of Excellence

Abstract The Model of Excellence in Public Management (MEGP) stands out for the results from the management of protected areas. This study aimed to analyze the applicability of this model to improve the effectiveness in management of the Pernambuco conservation units. As a reference, the Ecological Station chosen was Caetés, the first State unit deployed with a management plan and participatory management. Adapting the model to the unit management conditions and, through workshops with managers, the MEGP criteria were analyzed, the existing management practices identified and the results presented. The analysis revealed managerial gaps that interfere with the unit management and the use of the model helps to improve it, also improving outcomes for biodiversity conservation policies.

scholarly journals Managing Biodiversity: Impacts of Legal Protection in Mountain Forests of the Himalayas

Forests ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inger Måren ◽  
Lila Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Flood Control ◽  
Forest Health ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Woody Species ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Participatory Management ◽  
Protected Forests ◽  
Agro Forestry

Legal protection has been used as means of conserving forests and associated biodiversity in many regions of the world since the eighteenth century. However, most forests in the global south, even those within protected areas, are influenced by human activities. Himalayan forests harbour much of the biodiversity of the region, maintain subsistence livelihoods, and provide regional and global ecosystem services like water regulation, flood control, and carbon sequestration. Yet few studies have quantitatively studied the impacts of legal protection on forest health and biodiversity. We assess woody biodiversity and forest health in relation to legal protection and biomass extraction in forests inside and outside Langtang National Park in Nepal (n = 180). We found more woody species in protected forests. Of the 69 woody species recorded, 47% occurred at both sites. Within protected forests, we found differences in forest health largely related to the intensity of biomass extraction expressed as walking distance to settlement. The closer the forest was to settlements, the heavier degradation it suffered, showing that within agro-forestry systems in the Himalayas, the resource-consumer distance is typically determining the intensity of biomass extraction. Our research brings forth the need to better address the drivers of resource extraction from protected areas in order to mitigate this degradation. It also brings forth the need to contribute to the development of appropriate participatory management programmes outside areas of formal protection in order to sustain both biodiversity and ecosystem service delivery from these forests for the future.

Quantifying the contribution to biodiversity conservation of protected areas governed by indigenous peoples and local communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 227 ◽  
pp. 403-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Corrigan ◽  
Heather Bingham ◽  
Yichuan Shi ◽  
Edward Lewis ◽  
Alienor Chauvenet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Local Communities

scholarly journals More than Just Story Telling: A Review of Biodiversity Conservation and Utilisation from Precolonial to Postcolonial Zimbabwe

Scientifica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanyaradzwa Chigonda
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Land Reform ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Arable Farming ◽  
Resource Ownership

Access to natural resources has changed over the years in Zimbabwe. At least three broad periods of biodiversity conservation, utilisation, and access can be identified in the country, namely, the precolonial, colonial, and postindependence periods. This paper reviews the relationships between human livelihoods and biodiversity conservation in the rural areas of Zimbabwe during these periods and is informed by an extensive review of the relevant literature. A combination of historical narrative, thematic, and content analysis was used in analysing the various documents into meaningful information addressing the objective of the study. Traditional societies in precolonial Zimbabwe had access to abundant natural resources. However, access to these resources was not uncontrolled, but was limited by traditional beliefs, taboos, and customs enforced through community leadership structures. The advent of colonialism in the late 19th century dispossessed indigenous African communities of natural resources through command-type conservation legislation. At independence in 1980, the new majority government sought to redress the natural resource ownership imbalances created during colonialism, culminating in some significant measure of devolution in natural resource management to local communities in the late 1980s, though such devolution has been criticised for being incomplete. An accelerated land reform exercise since the year 2000 has adversely affected biodiversity conservation activities in the country, including the conservation-related livelihood benefits derived from protected areas. The review paper highlights the need for a more complete devolution of natural resource ownership and management down to the grassroots levels in the communal areas, if social and ecological sustainability is to be fully realised in these areas. On the other hand, the disruption of conservation activities in the country due to the ill-planned accelerated land reform exercise that has demarcated land for arable farming in some of the protected areas should be held in check as a matter of urgency.

scholarly journals Motivating Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation: A Case of Forest Dwellers in Nameri National Park of Assam-India

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
Runumi Das ◽  
Niranjan Das
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
National Park ◽  
The South ◽  
Conservation Programme ◽  
Work Hour ◽  
Land Holdings ◽  
The Right

This paper highlights the implementation of Forest Rights Act to conserving protected areas in the country; Forest Rights Act (2006) has been passed by the parliament of India with dual aims of protecting the right of forest dwellers and at the same time this Act tries to acquire the involvement of forest dwellers to protect forest/protected areas. The main objective of the paper is to determine the factors which influence motivation to spend efforts in terms of work hour for biodiversity conservation in Nameri National Park. A total of 78 numbers of households were interviewed from two forest villages (i.e. Torajan and Dharikati) and two encroached villages (i.e. Rihajuli and Chopaloga) located in the south buffer of Nameri National Park in Assam during March and June of 2021. Respondents in forests village are more willing to spend effort than that of encroacher’s village to conservation. Sex, age, literacy of the respondents and size of land holdings were found to be significantly related to spending time for biodiversity conservation programme. In this paper attempt has been made to emphasize the nature of motivation of the communities towards biodiversity conservation issues.

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING CROSS CONGRUENCE BETWEEN BUTTERFLY TAXA AND ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITY WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF SYSTEMATIC CONSERVATION PLANNING: A CASE STUDY FROM LESSER CAUCASUS ECOREGION OF TURKEY

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Banu Kaya özdemirel
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Site Selection ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Environmental Parameters ◽  
Systematic Conservation Planning ◽  
Ecological Community ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Lesser Caucasus

Cross taxa congruence was investigated between butterfly taxa and ecological community for fine spatial scale (10 × 10 km² UTM grids) in north-eastern part of Turkey. The study area was evaluated within the scope of systematic conservation planning, and analyses were performed for sets of priority protected areas composed using complementarity-based site selection software Marxan. Cross taxa congruence was subsequently examined both in species richness and ecologic complementarity. Accordingly, it has been observed that the cross-taxon congruence between butterfly taxa and ecological community was relatively better than the results of previous studies. Another remarkable finding is that ecological community was a more robust surrogate than butterfly taxa. Although the results are valuable for conservation studies, they highlight the fact that a simple surrogate-based site selection would be inadequate to represent overall biodiversity.  The weakness of congruence patterns among surrogates would also lead to gaps in biodiversity conservation. These findings therefore draw attention to the necessities of incorporating surrogates of distinct ecology or some other surrogates like environmental parameters into conservation planning. Otherwise, there may be mistakes regarding species representation and the vast majority of species may be misrepresented in protected areas and protected area plans. At this point, it should be emphasized that understating cross taxa congruence and/or relationships is a key component for efficient biodiversity conservation.

scholarly journals Publisher Correction: Biodiversity conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ubirajara Oliveira ◽  
Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho ◽  
Adriano Pereira Paglia ◽  
Antonio D. Brescovit ◽  
Claudio J. B. de Carvalho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation
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