Pubblicazione scientifica

Local Perspectives on Environmental Insecurity and Its Influence on Illegal Biodiversity Exploitation

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
economia circolare e sostenibilità

RIASSUNTO

Environmental insecurity is a source and outcome of biodiversity declines and social conflict. One challenge to scaling insecurity reduction policies is that empirical evidence about local attitudes is overwhelmingly missing. We set three objectives: determine how local people rank risk associated with different sources of environmental insecurity; assess perceptions of environmental insecurity, biodiversity exploitation, myths of nature and risk management preferences; and explore relationships between perceptions and biodiversity exploitation. We conducted interviews (N = 88) with residents of Madagascar’s Torotorofotsy Protected Area, 2014. Risk perceptions had a moderate effect on perceptions of environmental insecurity. We found no effects of environmental insecurity on biodiversity exploitation. Results offer one if not the first exploration of local perceptions of illegal biodiversity exploitation and environmental security. Local people’s perception of risk seriousness associated with illegal biodiversity exploitation such as lemur hunting (low overall) may not reflect perceptions of policy-makers (considered to be high). Discord is a key entry point for attention.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 15/04/2016

AUTORI

GORE MEREDITH L
LUTE MICHELLE L
RATSIMBAZAFY JONAH H
RAJAONSON ANDRY

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

DEPT FISHERIES & WILDLIFE SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE MICHIGAN STATE UNIV EAST LANSING MICHIGAN USA
SCHOOL OF NATURAL RESOURCES UNIV NEBRASKA LINCOLN LINCOLN NEBRASKA USA
GROUPE D’ETUDE ET DE RECHERCHE SUR LES PRIMATES DE MADAGASCAR GERP ANTANANARIVO MADAGASCAR
MALAGASY BIOLOGIST ASSOC ANTANANARIVO MADAGASCAR
CORNELL UNIV COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE US

RIVISTA

PLoS ONE, 11(4), e0150337

IMPACT FACTOR

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