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Bridging Gaps between Conservation Action and Policy on Small Island Developing States Case Analog of the Republic of Mauritius

机译：保护行动与小岛屿发展中国家政策之间的桥梁毛里求斯共和国的案例类似

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Mauritius, a small island state in the Indian Ocean, is a biodiversity hotspot with highly threatened forest ecosystems. It is also a country where environmental and conservation programs have been successful in the past. However, the issue of funding has received relatively less attention and national park systems are chronically underfunded. As part of assessing the potential for local funding, we assessed the demand for forest recreation. Recreation in forest ecosystems is one of the cornerstones of modern nature-based tourism. Tourism is increasingly a favored tool to promote conservation of natural forests, especially in developing countries where conservation financing can be intermittent. At policy level, stakeholders on the island have limited opportunity to translate conservation policies they help formulate into direct action. Enhancing the stakeholder engagement process is all-the-more relevant on a small island developing state where differences in gender, income, ethnicity interplay with differences in resource access and power distribution.;Our study is organized in three core chapters. In Chapter 2 we explored means of ensuring and enhancing conservation funding on the island. To that end, we designed and administered survey based contingent valuation approach to estimate the willingness to pay for conservation of state and privately owned forested sites. Study results suggest international and domestic tourists have a mean willingness to pay of USD 7.73 and USD 3.74 respectively, for conservation. These values represent amounts that visitors are willing to pay for conservation every time they visit a public or private forested site. Results show that education and mid-level supervisory roles positively influence willingness to pay values. Study results also show that people aged 50 and above, not having any supervisory role, married with one child or less, tend to have lower willingness to pay for conservation.;In Chapter 3, we focused on the contribution of domestic tourism to the conservation potential of native forests in the small island developing state of Mauritius. Our study used individual travel cost data from 188 residents, collected from in-person surveys at nine forested areas on the island. Results indicate that the consumer surplus for nature-tourism ranges between USD 3,739.21 and USD 3,975.54 per person per year. Our models also show that visit rates, and therefore residents' investment into tourism activities in forests, can increase with better sensitization campaigns and better understanding of the role played by forestland managers. Our most conservative estimate gives native forests of the island an annual recreation value of USD 260 million. The third aspect of our study, explored in Chapter 4, used analytic hierarchy process (AHP), in combination with an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) associated to conservation programs and policies developed on the island. Our findings present a robust overview of stakeholder preferences by establishing their priorities and assessing existing conflicts. Our findings show that state and private stakeholders favor expansion of existing nurseries and the setting up of new ones to increase re-afforestation programs. The opportunities to raise funds through corporate social responsibility and nature-based tourism are also prioritized in their chosen strategies. Refining identification and management of invasive species remain a priority for the scientific community. Other stakeholders view their continued participation in conservation policy formulation as a strong factor to keep building upon, but seek to address the lack of legal enforcement in forestlands as well as development threats to environmentally sensitive areas.;Our study contributes to the literature by empirically assessing willingness to pay for conservation between and among international and national tourists visiting forest sites in Mauritius and developing an approach for determining predictors and mean willingness to pay values. We show that conservation strategies can extract greater benefit from the stakeholder engagement processes of formulating conservation policy by integrating AHP and developing outcomes that have better stakeholder buy-in than a one-size-fits-all solution.
机译：毛里求斯是印度洋的一个小岛国，是生物多样性热点地区，森林生态系统受到高度威胁。在过去的环境和保护计划中，这也是一个成功的国家。但是，资金问题受到的关注相对较少，国家公园系统长期资金不足。在评估当地资金潜力的过程中，我们评估了对森林休闲的需求。森林生态系统的休闲娱乐是现代自然旅游的基石之一。旅游业日益成为促进天然林保护的一种受宠工具，特别是在保护性资金可能是断断续续的发展中国家。在政策层面上，岛上的利益相关者将他们制定的保护政策转化为直接行动的机会有限。在性别，收入，种族差异与资源获取和权力分配差异相互影响的小岛屿发展中国家，加强利益相关者的参与过程变得尤为重要。我们的研究分为三章。在第二章中，我们探讨了确保和增加岛上保护资金的方法。为此，我们设计和管理了基于调查的或有评估方法，以估计为保护国有和私有林地支付的意愿。研究结果表明，国际和国内游客平均愿意为保护支付7.73美元和3.74美元。这些值表示访问者每次访问公共或私人林区时愿意为保护付出的金额。结果表明，教育和中层监督角色对支付价值的意愿产生积极影响。研究结果还表明，年龄在50岁以上且没有任何监督作用且已婚且育有一个孩子或更少的人倾向于降低支付保护的意愿。;在第三章中，我们重点介绍了国内旅游业对保护的贡献。毛里求斯小岛屿发展中国家的原生林的潜力。我们的研究使用了来自188个居民的个人旅行成本数据，这些数据是从岛上9个森林地区的亲自调查中收集的。结果表明，自然旅游的消费者剩余在每人每年3,739.21美元至3,975.54美元之间。我们的模型还表明，通过提高认识度运动和对林地经理的作用的更好理解，访问率以及居民对森林旅游活动的投资可以增加。我们最保守的估计是该岛的原始森林每年的休闲价值为2.6亿美元。我们的研究的第三个方面在第4章中进行了探讨，它使用了层次分析法（AHP），并结合了与岛上制定的保护计划和政策相关的优势，劣势，机会和威胁（SWOT）进行了分析。我们的发现通过确定利益相关者的优先级并评估现有冲突，对利益相关者的偏好进行了全面的概述。我们的研究结果表明，州和私人利益相关者都赞成扩大现有的苗圃并建立新的苗圃以增加重新造林计划。他们选择的策略还优先考虑了通过企业社会责任和自然旅游筹集资金的机会。完善入侵物种的识别和管理仍然是科学界的优先事项。其他利益相关者将他们继续参与保护政策制定作为继续发展的重要因素，但力图解决森林执法不力以及对环境敏感地区的发展威胁的问题。；我们的研究通过实证评估为文献做出了贡献愿意为访问毛里求斯森林地带的国际和国内游客之间的保护付出代价，并开发一种确定预测指标和平均支付意愿的方法。我们表明，通过整合AHP并制定出比全能解决方案更好的利益相关者认可的结果，保护策略可以从利益相关者参与制定保护政策的过程中获得更大的收益。

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  • 作者

    Iranah, Pricila.;

  • 作者单位

    Montclair State University.;

  • 授予单位 Montclair State University.;
  • 学科 Environmental management.;Environmental economics.;Wildlife conservation.;African studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2018
  • 页码 221 p.
  • 总页数 221
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 等离子体物理学;
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:53:30

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