Linking CPR insights with Biodiversity conservation

Linking CPR insights with Biodiversity conservation

1. all systems are inextricably linked across cales

   • remote local areas affected by:
     • global markets
     • global governance
     • global politics

2. prescriptive design principles for global commons

   • invest in science/ develop trustworthy credible information
   • integrate scientific analysis with broadly based deliberation
   • ensure meaningful participation of parties
   • higher level actors should facilitate participation of actors at lower scales
   • institutional diversity at multiple scales
   • plan for institutional adaptation as conditions change

3. conservation science has proceeded to develop as a technical field with narrowly trained technical experts, whereas practical conservation requires interdisciplinary skills including the ability to understand social, economic, and institutional processes

4. biodiversity versus commons

   • biodiversity is a commons problem
     • CP natural resource
   • multi-scalar commons problem
     • important for humanity as a global whole
     • important at regional scales for tourism and other benefits
     • important at local scales for ecosystem services and human well-being at community level
   • most of the world's biodiversity is on lands used by people
     • succcessful conservation requires
       • understanding of social systems
       • interactions with ecological systems
   • conservation strategies over time
     • protected areas
       • national parks
         • development
         • aesthetic/recreational objectives
         • broader set of categories
         • limitations
           • 1. impact from visitor use
           • 2. exclusion of people and associated disturbances may not maintain particular desires ecological states
           • 3/ effective protection often requires resource managers to work with local residents ( rather than excluding them or their livelihood activities
     • shift in governance
       • state based "fences and fines
         • community based intitiatives

5. Co-management

   • the sharing of pwoer and responsibility in decision-making between state govs and communities in the functions of resource management
     • benefits
       • address resource conflicts by partnership/conflict resolution
       • ecologically robust and socially just decisions
       • improved capacity to adapt to change
       • improved social-ecological resilience overall
     • challenges
       • indigenous state relationships often constitute legacies of past and current colonialism
       • state agencies resist devolving power to local communities
       • asymmetrical power relations
         • difficulties achieving" equal partnership" in decision making
       • cultural differences including views about legitimate knowledge

6. conservation community and livelihoods

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