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: Received: 19 March 2024 / Approved: 19 March 2024 / Online: 19 March 2024 (12:47:47 CET)
How to cite:
Ma, L.; Wu, Y.J.; Zhang, H.; Hou, Y.; Wen, Y. Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania. Preprints2024, 2024031149. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1149.v1
Ma, L.; Wu, Y.J.; Zhang, H.; Hou, Y.; Wen, Y. Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania. Preprints 2024, 2024031149. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1149.v1
Ma, L.; Wu, Y.J.; Zhang, H.; Hou, Y.; Wen, Y. Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania. Preprints2024, 2024031149. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1149.v1
APA Style
Ma, L., Wu, Y.J., Zhang, H., Hou, Y., & Wen, Y. (2024). Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1149.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Ma, L., Yilei Hou and Yali Wen. 2024 "Conflict Governance between Protected Areas and Surrounding Communities: Willingness and Action of Communities — Empirical Evidence from Tanzania" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202403.1149.v1
Abstract
Under the double pressure of climate change and human activities, the restrictions of conservation policies and the increasing area of overlap between wildlife conservation areas and community living areas have led to increase conflicts and contradictions between nature reserves and neighboring communities. Effective management of such conflicts is particularly important in order to achieve reconciliation of conservation and development. In this study, we take the Mikumi-Selous region in Tanzania, Africa as an example, and through questionnaire surveys and semi-structured interviews, we sort out the current situation of conflicts between nature reserves and communities in the region, as well as summarize the means of conflict governance. In addition, we focus on identifying the various factors affecting community residents' protection willingness and protection action, and further verify the relationships among residents' family characteristics, protection costs and revenue, protection cognition, willingness and action through empirical analysis methods. The results show that residents' protection cognition has a significant positive effect on their willingness to protect and their actions, meanwhile willingness to protect also positively affects residents' protection action. In addition, it was found that the protection cost inhibits residents' willingness and action. Our study focuses on the willingness to participate and action of core stakeholders towards conflict governance from the perspective of community governance, emphasizing the key role of community participation in achieving coordinated development of biodiversity conservation and community. It provides a new perspective for mitigating conservation and development issues.
Keywords
protected areas; conflict governance; community residents; protection willingness; protection action
Subject
Business, Economics and Management, Other
Copyright:
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