Institutional Arrangements for Adaptive Governance of Biodiversity Conservation: The Experience of the Area de Conservación de Guanacaste, Costa Rica

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Basurto ◽  
Ignacio Jiménez-Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Adaptive Governance

scholarly journals A diagnostic framework for biodiversity conservation institutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Clement ◽  
Susan A. Moore ◽  
Michael Lockwood ◽  
Tiffany H. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Design Development ◽  
Public Agencies ◽  
Persistent Problem ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Diagnostic Framework

Biodiversity loss is a critical issue on the environmental agenda, with species-based approaches failing to stem the decline. Landscape-scale approaches offer promise, but require institutional change. This article describes a novel conceptual framework for assessing institutional arrangements to tackle this persistent problem. In doing so, two critical issues for biodiversity governance are addressed. The first is a need to enrich largely theoretical descriptions of adaptive governance by considering how the practical realities of institutional environments (e.g. public agencies) limit achievement of an adaptive governance ‘ideal’. The second is enabling explicit consideration of the unique aspects of biodiversity as a ‘policy problem’ in the analysis of institutional arrangements. The framework contributes to efforts to design more adaptive institutional arrangements, through supporting a more sophisticated and grounded institutional analysis incorporating insights from institutional theory, especially literature on organisational environments and public administration. Concepts from Pragmatism also contribute to this grounding, providing insight into how public agencies can play a more productive role in biodiversity conservation and building public consent for management actions. The diagnostic categories in the framework include the attributes of the biodiversity problem and the involved players; the political context; and practices contributing to both competence and capacity. Guidance on how to apply the framework and an example of its application in Australia illustrate the utility of this tool for institutional diagnosis and design. Development of this diagnostic framework could be further enhanced by empirically informed elaboration of the relationships between its components, and of the nature of, and factors influencing, key concerns for adaptation, particularly learning, self-organising and buffering.

Trends in environmental education for biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Jiménez ◽  
Martha C. Monroe ◽  
Natalia Zamora ◽  
Javier Benayas
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation

Systems Approaches Enable Improved Collaboration in Two Regional Australian Natural Resource Governance Situations

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moragh Mackay ◽  
Catherine Allan ◽  
Ross Colliver ◽  
Jonathon Howard
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Natural Resource Management ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Adaptive Governance ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Resource Governance ◽  
Natural Resource Governance ◽  
Collaborative Processes

Natural Resource Management (NRM) in Australia is socially and ecologically complex, uncertain and contested. Government and non-government stakeholders act and collaborate in regionally-based, multi-scale NRM governance situations, but imbalances in power and breakdowns in trust constrain transparency and equity. Here, we report on an action research project exploring the potential of social learning to contribute to systemic change in multi-governance situations. We sought to understand practices and institutional arrangements in two regional NRM governance case studies in southern Victoria, Australia. Drawing on this research, we explore how social learning, with its foundation of systems thinking, has enabled improved collaborative processes and adaptive governance to emerge.

Rediscovery of Furipterus horrens (Chiroptera: Furipteridae) in Costa Rica

Mammalia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Alfaro-Lara ◽  
David Villalobos-Chaves ◽  
José Ivan Castillo-Gómez ◽  
Alfredo F. Zuñiga-Montero ◽  
Willy Pineda-Lizano
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Geographic Distribution ◽  
Morphological Characteristics

Abstract Furipterus horrens is a small insectivorous bat with distinct clawless tiny thumbs, and with a patchy geographic distribution in the Neotropics. We report the rediscovery of F. horrens in Costa Rica 44 years after it was first recorded. A colony of 100–130 individuals, each one with the distinctive external and morphological characteristics of the species, was found roosting in the lower parts of the floor of bungalows located in the Sarapiquí area. The rediscovery of this species validates the protection of several rainforest fragments through ecotourism, a modern way to balance human development and biodiversity conservation.

scholarly journals The Manokwari Declaration: Challenges ahead in conserving 70% of Tanah Papua’s forests

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Cámara-Leret ◽  
Andre Schuiteman ◽  
Timothy Utteridge ◽  
Gemma Bramley ◽  
Richard Deverell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Global Impact ◽  
Se Asia ◽  
Impact On Biodiversity ◽  
Change Mitigation

The Manokwari Declaration is an unprecedented pledge by the governors of Indonesia’s two New Guinea provinces to promote conservation and become SE Asia’s new Costa Rica. This is an exciting, yet challenging endeavour that will require working on many fronts that transcend single disciplines. Because Indonesian New Guinea has the largest expanse of intact forests in SE Asia, large-scale conservation pledges like the Manokwari Declaration will have a global impact on biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.

scholarly journals Strumigenys fairchildi Brown, 1961 (Formicidae, Myrmicinae): first record of this rarely collected ant from Brazil

Check List ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1922 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lívia P. Prado ◽  
Ricardo Eduardo Vicente ◽  
Thiago S. R. Silva ◽  
Jorge L. P. Souza
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
Tropical Rain Forest ◽  
First Record ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
First Time

Strumigenys fairchildi Brown, 1961 is recorded for the first time in Brazil. This ant species was previously known only from a few specimens collected in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador. The worker S. fairchildi was collected at the Parque Estadual do Cristalino, a continuous area of Amazon tropical rain forest protected for biodiversity conservation in the municipality of Novo Mundo, Mato Grosso state. In addition, we present a distribution map and high-resolution images of the worker.

Coupled social and ecological outcomes of agricultural intensification in Costa Rica and the future of biodiversity conservation in tropical agricultural regions

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 74-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Shaver ◽  
Adina Chain-Guadarrama ◽  
Katherine A. Cleary ◽  
Andre Sanfiorenzo ◽  
Ricardo J. Santiago-García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
The Future ◽  
Agricultural Regions
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document