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Environmental Conservation | 2007

Sustainability of community-based conservation: sea turtle egg harvesting in Ostional (Costa Rica) ten years later.

Lisa M. Campbell; Bethany Haalboom; Jennie Trow

In 1995, a study found that the socioeconomic benefits from a legalized commercial harvest of sea turtle eggs in Ostional (Costa Rica) were substantial and widely recognized by Ostional residents. Legal and administrative structures ensured community participation in and control of resource use, and evidence indicated support for community-based conservation (CBC) was high. In 2004, the study was repeated to assess how perceptions of the egg harvest might have changed over time. There were continued high levels of support for conservation and positive perceptions of the projects impacts on the economy, environment and community. Some explanations for impact rankings have changed, with greater emphasis on the importance of conservation and awareness of how this is achieved, greater animosity towards one government agency and greater concern about the impacts of tourism on the egg harvesting project. Between surveys, a variety of social, political and economic changes have occurred. The CBC concept has been further refined and critiqued; by examining a CBC project over time, this paper considers the durability and flexibility of the incentive, legal and administrative structures associated with a successful example of CBC.


Environment and Planning A | 2015

Beyond carbon, more than forest? REDD+ governmentality in Indonesia

Andrew McGregor; Edward Challies; Peter Howson; Rini Astuti; Rowan Dixon; Bethany Haalboom; Michael Gavin; Luca Tacconi; Suraya Afiff

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) is an expanding global initiative oriented at slowing or reversing carbon emissions from forests in the Global South. The programme is based on the principle of payment for environmental services, where the carbon sequestration services of forests are seen to have a financial value which can be paid for through grant and market mechanisms. In this paper we explore how REDD+ is implemented, drawing upon the concept of governmentality. We focus on REDD+ practices in Indonesia, concluding with a case study focused on the Sungai Lamandau REDD+ project in Central Kalimantan. A cross-scalar approach is adopted that explores the different but overlapping strategies of actors congregating at international, national, and local scales. We detail the neoliberal strategies employed by international actors; the more disciplinary approaches evident within national planning processes; and local forms of engagement being practised by a forest community. Our findings reveal REDD+ to be comprised of a heterogeneous regime of disjointed practices that reflect the existing political ecologies and interests of differently located actors. Rather than consolidate these approaches we argue that the strength of the programme lies in its fluidity, which is creating new cross-scalar opportunities, and risks, for those pursuing forms of social and environmental justice.


Archive | 2012

Chapter 8 Community-Based Conservation as Grassroots Sustainability Enterprise? Sea Turtle Egg Harvesting in Ostional, Costa Rica

Lisa M. Campbell; Bethany Haalboom; Jennie Trow

In developing country contexts, it has become difficult to imagine the word ‘conservation’ without ‘community’ sitting alongside it, as their combination is part of the international conservation and development lexicon. Community-based conservation (CBC) encompasses several core principles, including: involving communities in decision-making; devolving control over resource management; developing community institutions for management; incorporating traditional or local knowledge; legitimising community property rights; linking environment and development objectives and providing incentives for conservation (Barrow & Murphree, 2001; Kellert, Mehta, Ebbin, & Litchtenfeld, 2000; Songorwa, 1999; Western & Wright, 1994). All of these are employed with the aims of overcoming the limitations associated with traditional ‘top-down’ approaches to conservation (Adams & Hulme, 2001; Campbell, 2002a). Ideally, CBC should benefit both people and environments, contributing to both development and conservation. In this way CBC is directly aligned to wider discourses of sustainability and to innovations in the field of conserving natural resources.


Arctic | 2012

The Power and Peril of "Vulnerability": Approaching Community Labels with Caution in Climate Change Research

Bethany Haalboom; David C. Natcher


Geoforum | 2012

The intersection of corporate social responsibility guidelines and indigenous rights: Examining neoliberal governance of a proposed mining project in Suriname

Bethany Haalboom


Asia Pacific Viewpoint | 2014

Practical critique: Bridging the gap between critical and practice-oriented REDD+ research communities

Andrew McGregor; Sean Weaver; Edward Challies; Peter Howson; Rini Astuti; Bethany Haalboom


Canadian Geographer | 2006

The risk society at work in the Sydney ‘Tar Ponds’

Bethany Haalboom; Susan J. Elliott; John Eyles; Henry Muggah


Social Movement Studies | 2011

Framed Encounters with Conservation and Mining Development: Indigenous Peoples' use of Strategic Framing in Suriname

Bethany Haalboom


Canadian Journal of Public Health-revue Canadienne De Sante Publique | 2006

Research as intervention in heart health promotion

Bethany Haalboom; Kerry Robinson; Susan J. Elliott; Roy Cameron; John Eyles


Global Networks-a Journal of Transnational Affairs | 2012

Scale, networks, and information strategies: exploring indigenous peoples' refusal of a protected area in Suriname

Bethany Haalboom; Lisa M. Campbell

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John Eyles

University of the Witwatersrand

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Peter Howson

Victoria University of Wellington

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Rini Astuti

Victoria University of Wellington

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Michael Gavin

College of Natural Resources

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David C. Natcher

University of Saskatchewan

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Roy Cameron

University of Waterloo

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