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Constraints on socio-buffering around the Mantadia National Park in Madagascar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Priya Shyamsundar
Priya Shyamsundar*
Affiliation:
Program Officer, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 140 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 1100, Chicago, Illinois 60603-5385, USA
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* Dr Priya Shyamsundar Tel: +1 312 726 8000 Fax: +1 312 917 0334 e-mail: pshyamsu@macfdn.org
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Summary

Integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) involve the establishment of parks and reserves with protective or buffer zones around them. Socio-buffering provides local residents with alternatives to traditional land-use activities, but the actual implementation of socio-buffering programmes is difficult.

Socio-economic requirements and constraints to socio-buffering were assessed for the Mantadia National Park in eastern Madagascar based on five criteria. Previously unused lands for compensating people for loss of access to areas within the park were found to be insufficient. While there existed institutions and programmes for developing substitute land-use activities, successful adoption of these activities was crucially dependent on their economic viability. Socio-buffering activities need to not only provide goods that are substitutes for goods that are traditionally consumed, but they also need to be at least as profitable as traditional economic efforts. Also, if land and labour are not a constraint to agricultural expansion, socio-buffering activities can themselves result in increased deforestation. Finally, the long-term effectiveness of socio-buffering was likely to be dependent on the satisfaction of a number of stake-holder interests, and on explicit linkages developed between socio-buffering activities and conservation.

Keywords

Protected AreaLocal ResidentsEconomic Incentives
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Papers
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Environmental Conservation , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 67 - 73
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1996

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