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AUTHOR
Judith Schleicher
Evaluating environmental and social impacts of protected areas in South America
In light of the persisting conservation pressures despite considerable conservation efforts, there have been increasing calls for rigorous approaches to evaluate conservation impacts to ensure that conservation efforts have their intended impacts. While government-controlled protected areas (PAs) have been the main conservation strategy globally, relatively little is still known about the performance of PAs under different governance regimes and the factors influencing their impacts. We therefore reviewed the recent literature concerning the social and environmental impacts of different PAs across South America and the methods used to evaluate them. In addition, we evaluated the performance…
Poverty-environmental relationships in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals
The interconnected relationships between the natural environment and human wellbeing and poverty have been a central theme in the environmental and development literatures. However, this has been less influential in mainstream international development policies, which often neglect the natural environment. This can have negative implications for the environment and for addressing poverty adequately in all its forms. Based on a literature review, stakeholder consulation workshops and secondary datasets, this paper (1) examines how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) might influence the framing of the environment-poverty relationships and (2) present the results of integrating environmen…