Evaluating co-management in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh: success and limitations from local forest users’ perspectives

IF 3.6 2区 社会学 Q1 ECOLOGY
Mohammad R. H. Siddique, Mahmood Hossain, A. Z. M. Manzoor Rashid, Niaz Ahmed Khan, Shahriar Nasim Shuvo, Md. Zahid Hassan
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The relatively rapid expansion of protected areas (PAs) has outpaced their effective governance, monitoring, and evaluation processes, resulting in a knowledge gap, particularly in relation to the impact and efficacy of co-managed protected areas in conserving biodiversity globally. Bangladesh, like numerous other nations, is expanding its existing co-management model to incorporate additional PAs while simultaneously making only limited modifications to the management of these protected areas. Evaluations, however, are relatively rare throughout the world, including Bangladesh, despite their potential to improve PA quality and effectiveness. The purpose of this article is to examine current co-management practices at two sites in Bangladesh’s Sundarbans to identify significant challenges and the efficacy of co-management initiatives through the establishment of a novel evaluative framework. The primary empirical data collection methods included key informant interviews, stakeholder consultation in focus group discussions, and uncontrolled personal observation. Despite significant progress in terms of policy and legislative reforms, many issues remained unattended, such as a goal of balancing conservation and development, increasing locals’ say in decision making, access to resources, and establishing strong institutions. This addition is believed to aid in reconciling the local community and the government. We also need to give more weight to such things as accounting and transparency, income diversification, and showing respect for preexisting social norms. The problems raised in this article are thought to be significant in bridging the gap between management plans and actual management of PAs, not just in Bangladesh but also in other regions of the world that use co-management to achieve sustainability.

The post Evaluating co-management in the Sundarbans mangrove forest of Bangladesh: success and limitations from local forest users’ perspectives first appeared on Ecology & Society.

评估孟加拉国孙德尔本斯红树林的共同管理:从当地森林使用者的角度看成功与局限性
保护区(PAs)相对较快的扩张速度已经超过了其有效治理、监测和评估过程的速度,从而造成了知识缺口,尤其是在共同管理保护区对保护全球生物多样性的影响和功效方面。孟加拉国与许多其他国家一样,正在扩大其现有的共同管理模式,以纳入更多的保护区,同时对这些保护区的管理进行有限的修改。然而,尽管评估具有提高保护区质量和有效性的潜力,但在包括孟加拉国在内的全世界范围内却相对罕见。本文旨在研究孟加拉国孙德尔本斯两个地点当前的共同管理实践,通过建立一个新颖的评估框架来确定共同管理举措所面临的重大挑战和成效。主要的实证数据收集方法包括关键信息提供者访谈、焦点小组讨论中的利益相关者咨询以及不受控的个人观察。尽管在政策和立法改革方面取得了重大进展,但许多问题仍未得到解决,例如平衡保护与发展的目标、增加当地人在决策中的发言权、资源的获取以及建立强有力的机构。相信增加这些内容有助于协调当地社区与政府之间的关系。我们还需要更加重视会计和透明度、收入多样化以及尊重原有的社会规范等问题。本文提出的问题被认为对于缩小保护区管理计划与实际管理之间的差距具有重要意义,不仅在孟加拉国如此,在世界其他利用共同管理实现可持续发展的地区也是如此。
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Ecology and Society
Ecology and Society 环境科学-生态学
CiteScore
6.20
自引率
4.90%
发文量
109
审稿时长
3 months
期刊介绍: Ecology and Society is an electronic, peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research. Manuscript submission, peer review, and publication are all handled on the Internet. Software developed for the journal automates all clerical steps during peer review, facilitates a double-blind peer review process, and allows authors and editors to follow the progress of peer review on the Internet. As articles are accepted, they are published in an "Issue in Progress." At four month intervals the Issue-in-Progress is declared a New Issue, and subscribers receive the Table of Contents of the issue via email. Our turn-around time (submission to publication) averages around 350 days. We encourage publication of special features. Special features are comprised of a set of manuscripts that address a single theme, and include an introductory and summary manuscript. The individual contributions are published in regular issues, and the special feature manuscripts are linked through a table of contents and announced on the journal''s main page. The journal seeks papers that are novel, integrative and written in a way that is accessible to a wide audience that includes an array of disciplines from the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities concerned with the relationship between society and the life-supporting ecosystems on which human wellbeing ultimately depends.
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