Browsing by Author "Basurto, Xavier"
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A novel framework for analyzing conservation impacts: evaluation, theory, and marine protected areas.
(Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2017-07)Environmental conservation initiatives, including marine protected areas (MPAs), have proliferated in recent decades. Designed to conserve marine biodiversity, many MPAs also seek to foster sustainable development. As is ... -
Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally.
(Nature, 2017-03-22)Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly being used globally to conserve marine resources. However, whether many MPAs are being effectively and equitably managed, and how MPA management influences substantive outcomes ... -
Counterpoint to Obura
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Governing the commons beyond harvesting: An empirical illustration from fishing.
(PloS one, 2020-01)Harvesting has received most theoretical, empirical, and policy attention towards understanding common-pool resource dilemmas. Yet, pre-harvesting and post-harvesting activities influence harvesting outcomes as well. Broadening ... -
Hunting for common ground between wildlife governance and commons scholarship.
(Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology, 2019-02)Wildlife hunting is essential to livelihoods and food security in many parts of the world, yet present rates of extraction may threaten ecosystems and human communities. Thus, governing sustainable wildlife use is a major ... -
Institutional Arrangements for Adaptive Governance of Biodiversity Conservation: The Experience of the Area de Conservación de Guanacaste, Costa Rica
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Institutional effects on ecological outcomes of community-based management of fisheries in the Amazon.
(Ambio, 2022-03)Communities throughout the globe are increasingly being given the responsibility of resource management, making it necessary to understand the factors that lead to success in community-based management (CBM). Here, we assessed ... -
Integrating simultaneous prosocial and antisocial behavior into theories of collective action.
(Sci Adv, 2016-03)Trust and cooperation constitute cornerstones of common-pool resource theory, showing that "prosocial" strategies among resource users can overcome collective action problems and lead to sustainable resource governance. ... -
Lack of cross-scale linkages reduces robustness of community-based fisheries management.
(PLoS One, 2009-07-16)Community-based management and the establishment of marine reserves have been advocated worldwide as means to overcome overexploitation of fisheries. Yet, researchers and managers are divided regarding the effectiveness ... -
Linking MPA effectiveness to the future of local rural fishing societies
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Micro-level explanations for emergent patterns of self-governance arrangements in small-scale fisheries-A modeling approach.
(PloS one, 2017-01)Small-scale fisheries (SSFs) in developing countries are expected to play a significant role in poverty alleviation and enhancing food security in the decades to come. To realize this expectation, a better understanding ... -
Mobility of Common-Pool Resources and Privatization of Land Tenure in the Argentine Semi-Arid Chaco
(Conservation and Society, 2008)During the last few decades there has been a strong tendency towards privatisation of land tenure to increase protection and sustainable use of natural resources. We assess this approach in the context of land privatisation ... -
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework to assess sustainability.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-05-12)Environmental governance is more effective when the scales of ecological processes are well matched with the human institutions charged with managing human-environment interactions. The social-ecological systems (SESs) framework ... -
Political making of more-than-fishers through their involvement in ecological monitoring of protected areas
(Biodiversity and Conservation, 2020-12-01)© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. One strategy for ecological monitoring of protected areas involves data collection by local resource users instead of external scientists. Growing support for such programs comes from their potential ... -
Proximity to small-scale inland and coastal fisheries is associated with improved income and food security.
(Communications earth & environment, 2022-01)Poverty and food insecurity persist in sub-Saharan Africa. We conducted a secondary analysis of nationally representative data from three sub-Saharan Africa countries (Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda) to investigate how both ... -
SOCIAL SCIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY. Engage key social concepts for sustainability.
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The challenges of incorporating cultural ecosystem services into environmental assessment.
(Ambio, 2013-10)The ecosystem services concept is used to make explicit the diverse benefits ecosystems provide to people, with the goal of improving assessment and, ultimately, decision-making. Alongside material benefits such as natural ... -
Zostera marina meadows from the Gulf of California: conservation status
(Biodiversity and Conservation, 2016-02-01)© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Eelgrass (Zostera marina) population estimates show a decreasing trend worldwide in the second half of the twentieth century. Mexico lacks long-term time series to determine ...
