Mapping Human and Social Dimensions of Conservation Opportunity for the Scheduling of Conservation Action on Private Land
Mapping Human and Social Dimensions of Conservation Opportunity for the Scheduling of Conservation Action on Private Land
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01494.x
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Campbell, Bruce M.
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作者：
Knight, Andrew T.;Cowling, Richard M.;Campbell, Bruce M.
空间优先排序技术应用于保护规划举措中以分配保护资源。虽然它们通常基于生态数据（例如物种、栖息地、生态过程），但它们也越来越多地包括非生态数据，主要是有价值特征的脆弱性和实施的经济成本。然而，通过保护规划举措实施的保护行动的有效性取决于社会生态系统的人类和社会层面，例如利益相关者的参与意愿和能力。我们评估了假设的人类和社会因素，以确定个人土地管理者（负责对土地使用进行日常决策的人）实施有效保护行动的机会，并将这些因素映射到私人土地保护计划的实施时间表。我们对南非东开普省马卡纳市拥有 301 块土地的 48 名土地管理者进行了调查。将心理统计和聚类分析应用于访谈数据，以便在具有区域保护重要性的景观中绘制保护机会的人类和社会因素。按等级顺序确定了四组土地所有者，以进行分阶段实施过程。此外，利用心理统计技术，我们将访谈问题的数量从 165 个减少到 45 个，这是开发人类和社会因素替代指标的初步步骤，这些替代指标可以快速开发，并辅以保护价值、脆弱性和经济成本的衡量标准，以更有效地安排保护行动。这项工作为保护和土地管理专业人员提供了指导，说明应在何处以及如何实施当地规模的保护，以确保其可行。
Spatial prioritization techniques are applied in conservation-planning initiatives to allocate conservation resources. Although typically they are based on ecological data (e.g., species, habitats, ecological processes), increasingly they also include nonecological data, mostly on the vulnerability of valued features and economic costs of implementation. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of conservation actions implemented through conservation-planning initiatives is a function of the human and social dimensions of social-ecological systems, such as stakeholders' willingness and capacity to participate. We assessed human and social factors hypothesized to define opportunities for implementing effective conservation action by individual land managers (those responsible for making day-to-day decisions on land use) and mapped these to schedule implementation of a private land conservation program. We surveyed 48 land managers who owned 301 land parcels in the Makana Municipality of the Eastern Cape province in South Africa. Psychometric statistical and cluster analyses were applied to the interview data so as to map human and social factors of conservation opportunity across a landscape of regional conservation importance. Four groups of landowners were identified, in rank order, for a phased implementation process. Furthermore, using psychometric statistical techniques, we reduced the number of interview questions from 165 to 45, which is a preliminary step toward developing surrogates for human and social factors that can be developed rapidly and complemented with measures of conservation value, vulnerability, and economic cost to more-effectively schedule conservation actions. This work provides conservation and land management professionals direction on where and how implementation of local-scale conservation should be undertaken to ensure it is feasible.