Detecting shared norms as a strategy for sustainable programming: Wildlife crime enforcement versus local community actors in Zambia's protected areas

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Vincent R. Nyirenda , Alexandra Brewis , Roseanne C. Schuster , Christopher Gegenheimer , Michael G. Lacy
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Abstract

Sustainability implementation efforts, relevant to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), can succeed or fail based on how the program activities effectively align with local community norms. Conflict arises when implementers incorrectly assume the ways in which local communities and other stakeholders share their world views. A novel approach was applied to identify conflicts between stakeholder norms through the example of wildlife conservation. This case is based on 62 systematically collected interviews involving law enforcement staff (wildlife police officers [WPOs]) and local community members in four of Zambia's Game Management Areas. Cultural consensus analysis (CCA) was used to extract and compare cultural models across groups. Discordant cultural norms were identified for resource protection, which reflected frailty of collaborative strategies. Concordant norms were relevant to shared understandings of the disproportionate burdens to GMA-based communities from conservation and some potential benefits of collaboration. This case shows exemplar application of CCA to capture and compare stakeholder norms associated with livelihoods and conservation, allowing better program design that reduces conflict and builds on shared values to better support SDGs, especially SDG15 (Life on Land).

检测共同规范作为可持续计划编制的战略:赞比亚保护区的野生动物犯罪执法与当地社区行动者
与所有可持续发展目标 (SDG) 相关的可持续性实施工作的成败取决于计划活动如何有效地与当地社区的规范保持一致。如果实施者错误地假定当地社区和其他利益相关者认同他们的世界观,就会产生冲突。我们采用了一种新颖的方法,通过野生动物保护的例子来识别利益相关者规范之间的冲突。本案例基于 62 个系统收集的访谈,涉及赞比亚四个狩猎管理区的执法人员(野生动物警官 [WPO])和当地社区成员。采用了文化共识分析法(CCA)来提取和比较不同群体的文化模式。在资源保护方面发现了不一致的文化规范,这反映了合作战略的脆弱性。一致的规范则与对基于 GMA 的社区因保护而承受不成比例的负担以及合作的一些潜在益处的共同理解有关。本案例展示了共同国家评估在捕捉和比较与生计和保护相关的利益相关者规范方面的示范性应用,从而可以进行更好的计划设计,减少冲突并以共同价值观为基础,更好地支持可持续发展目标,尤其是可持续发展目标 15(土地上的生活)。
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Current Research in Environmental Sustainability
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability Environmental Science-General Environmental Science
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