Deconstructing Community for Conservation: Why Simple Assumptions are Not Sufficient.

ABSTRACT: Many conservation policies advocate engagement with local people, but conservation practice has sometimes been criticised for a simplistic understanding of communities and social context. To counter this, this paper explores social structuring and its influences on conservation-related behaviours at the site of a conservation intervention near Pipar forest, within the Seti Khola valley, Nepal. Qualitative and quantitative data from questionnaires and Rapid Rural Appraisal demonstrate how links between groups directly and indirectly influence behaviours of conservation relevance (including existing and potential resource-use and proconservation activities). For low-status groups the harvesting of resources can be driven by others' preference for wild foods, whilst perceptions of elite benef

SUBMITTER: Waylen KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3744651 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature