A5066113055- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Cambodian History and Society
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Mining and Resource Management
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
University of East Anglia
2016-2025
Norwich Research Park
2015-2024
Fondation Pour la Recherche Sur la Biodiversité
2021-2024
Université Catholique de Lille
2023
International Union for Conservation of Nature
2022
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales
2021
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
2020-2021
University of Aberdeen
2010-2021
Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines
2021
Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry
2020
Dawson, N. M., B. Coolsaet, E. J. Sterling, R. Loveridge, D. Gross-Camp, S. Wongbusarakum, K. Sangha, L. M. Scherl, H. Phuong Phan, Zafra-Calvo, W. G. Lavey, P. Byakagaba, C. Idrobo, A. Chenet, Bennett, Mansourian, and F. Rosado-May. 2021. The role of Indigenous peoples local communities in effective equitable conservation. Ecology Society 26(3):19. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12625-260319
In light of the Aichi target to manage protected areas equitably by 2020, we ask how conservation sector should be incorporating concerns for social justice. We focus in particular on 'recognition', because it is least well understood aspect environmental justice, and yet highly relevant its concern with respect local knowledge cultures. order explore meaning recognition context, take four main steps. First, identify components serve as our analytical framework: subjects harms that...
Green Revolution policies are again being pursued to drive agricultural growth and reduce poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. However conditions have changed since the well-documented successes of 1960s 1970s benefitted smallholders southern Asia beyond. We argue that under contemporary constraints mechanisms for achieving improvements lives smallholder farmers through such unclear both policy rationale means governing innovation crucial pro-poor impacts. To critically analyze Rwanda's impacts...
Substantial efforts and investments are being made to increase the scale improve effectiveness of marine conservation globally. Though it is mandated by international law central policy, less attention has been given how operationalize social equity in through pursuit conservation. In this article, we aim bring greater topic reviewing can be better integrated policy practice. Advancing requires directing to: recognition acknowledgment respect for diverse peoples perspectives; fair...
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely technical problem, recognizing instead it is symptomatic of the history European and North American colonialism. It therefore be addressed by decolonizing process transforming relations between scientific expertise knowledge systems Indigenous Peoples local communities. Partnership across diverse can path to transformative only if those are respected in their entirety, indivisible cultural wholes knowledge,...
Lack of attention to social complexity has created a gap between current ecosystem service research and the kind insights needed inform management in tropics. To contribute closing this gap, study applies methodology for exploring complex linkages services human wellbeing. This builds on emerging frameworks studying multiple dimensions wellbeing, drawing Amartya Sen's capabilities approach development. The is applied an empirical case three sites adjacent native tropical forest western...
Abstract With the inclusion of equity concerns in Aichi Target 11 Convention on Biological Diversity, equitable management has become an important objective for world's protected areas. The way is defined and operationalized influences whether this strategic shift can help identify pathways commensurate with conservation effectiveness. We examined around a area Laos, combining quantitative qualitative methods to explore three dimensions procedure, recognition, distribution. Local...
Wild food constitutes a substantial part of household consumption around the world, but rapid land use changes influence availability wild foods, which has implications for smallholders' and nutrient intake. With increasing commercial agriculture biodiversity conservation efforts in forested tropical regions, many shifting cultivation systems are being intensified their extent restricted. Studies examining consequences such pressures commonly overlook diminishing role food. Using combination...
Global carbon emissions continue to rise, 1 rates of global biodiversity loss increase, 2 and social economic inequalities widen. 3 Significant movements ...
As conservation initiatives expand in response to biodiversity loss, there remains limited understanding about what forms of governance and roles for different actors produce the best ecological outcomes. Indigenous peoples' local communities' (IPs' LCs') extend beyond participation more equitable based on relative control recognition their values institutions, but relationship with outcomes unclear. We review 648 empirical studies develop a typology IP LC and, subsample 170, analyze...
Dawson, N. M., K. Grogan, A. Martin, O. Mertz, M. Pasgaard, and L. V. Rasmussen. 2017. Environmental justice research shows the importance of social feedbacks in ecosystem service trade-offs. Ecology Society 22(3):12. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09481-220312
Ecosystem research focuses on goods and services, thereby ascribing beneficial values to the ecosystems. Depending context, however, outputs from ecosystems can be both positive negative. We examined how provisioning services of wild animals plants switch between being disservices. studied agricultural communities in Laos illustrate when why these switches take place. Government restrictions land use combined with economic cultural changes have created perceptions rodents as problem species...
A national interpretation process involving diverse actors and interests is required to transform global environmental initiatives into policies appropriate the or subnational context. These processes of localising norms are critical spaces formulate equitable pathways conservation, yet have received limited attention from policy makers researchers. We explored for Reducing Emissions Deforestation Degradation (REDD+) in Uganda Nepal perspectives 'intermediaries', state civil society at scale...
Failure to recognize that potential provisioning ecosystem services are not necessarily collected and used by people may have important consequences for management of land resources. Accounting people's actual use in decision making processes requires a robust methodological approach goes beyond mapping the presence services. But no such universally accepted method exists, there several shortcomings existing methods as application use/cover proxy service availability surveys based on...
Abstract The government of Rwanda is promoting agricultural intensification focused on the production a small number targeted commodities as central strategy to pursue joint policy goals economic growth, food security and livelihood development. dominant approach increase productive capacity land, crops animal resources has been through large-scale land consolidation, soil fertility management, intensive use biotechnology external inputs. However, evidence shown that many Rwandan farmers,...
Inequity is ubiquitous in the ocean, and social equity receives insufficient attention ocean governance management efforts. Thus, we assert that proponents of sustainability must center future governance, to address past environmental injustices, align with international law conservation policy, realize objectives sustainability. This obligation applies across all marine policy realms, including conservation, fisheries management, climate adaptation economy, socio-political contexts at...
Market-oriented agricultural intensification is a major development strategy, yet its alignment with sustainable goals (SDGs) unclear. We apply indicators for SDG 2 (eradicate hunger) regarding income, food production, security and land tenure to recent intensifications in Rwanda Laos reveal their disaggregated impacts. find while market-oriented may generate poverty reduction, it also exacerbated marginalisation through various forms of insecurity. Ethnicity gender were influential factors...
Abstract Despite evidence about the contribution of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to conservation, prevailing strategies still seek their separation from nature, often triggering conflicts. Current pledges expand global protected area coverage suggest a need for critical analysis governance quality way conservation interacts with well‐being IPLCs. We present case Catimbau National Park in Caatinga dry forest northeast Brazil, where we explored connections between IPLCs...
REDD+ is an international policy aimed at incentivizing forest conservation and management improving governance. In this article, we interrogate how newly articulated governance processes established to guide the formulation of Nepal's approach address issues participation for different social groups. Specifically, analyse available forums groups, as well nature their representation degree during country's preparedness phase. We find that spaces decision-making in have been date defined...
ABSTRACT Rwanda has embarked on an ambitious policy package to modernise and professionalise the agrarian land sector. Its reform fits into a broader call – supported by major international donors implement Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa. After 10 years of implementation, there is increased production output value-addition commercialised commodity chains. These are promising results. However, poverty reduction, particularly more recent years, seems limited. Moreover, micro-level...
Policies and projects aimed at Reducing Emissions from Deforestation forest Degradation, the sustainable management of forests enhancement carbon stocks (REDD+), have been regarded as an opportunity to improve governance while supporting rural livelihoods. However, now that REDD+ policies are being increasingly implemented, a number justice-related challenges emerged, including how social heterogeneity should be approached avoid deepening unequal access land, resources livelihood...
Taking point of departure in the ambitious framework for 'safe and just operating spaces' social-ecological systems, this paper explores applicability conceptual framing. Specifically, we draw attention to limitations conceptualisation justice as a question attaining minimal level (material) wellbeing. With an empirical case from Laos, apply broader notion environmental based on interconnected dimensions distribution, procedure recognition examine dynamic relationship between 'safe' 'just'...