TY - JOUR

T1 - Large Differences in Livelihood Responses and Outcomes to Increased Conservation Enforcement in a Protected Area

AU - Persson, Joel

AU - Ford, Scott

AU - Keophoxay, Anousith

AU - Mertz, Ole

AU - Nielsen, Jonas Østergaard

AU - Vongvisouk, Thoumthone

AU - Zörner, Michael

N1 - Correction: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00267-4 Funding Information: This study was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant agreement No. 765408. SF was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions grant agreement no. 766417. TV’s time was funded by the Managing telecoupled landscapes for the sustainable provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation project, under the Swiss Programme for Research on Global Issues for Development (R4D) Programme, funded by the Swiss National Sciences Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), grant number 400440 152167. Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Despite the popularity of integrated conservation and development approaches to protected area management, adjacent communities increasingly face livelihood dilemmas. Yet understanding of how market processes and conservation enforcement interact to influence livelihood responses remains limited. Targeting eight villages in Nam Et-Phou Louey (NEPL) National Park in northern Lao PDR, we draw on survey data with 255 households, 93 semi-structured interviews, and meso-level data on village conditions to examine how residents navigate associated livelihood dilemmas. A cluster analysis reveals five livelihood types with divergent capacities to engage in market development and cope with enforcement pressures. We show how market linkages, historical conservation interventions, and local access conditions shape livelihoods and differences between villages. Our approach yields a nuanced picture of how global conservation efforts result in an uneven distribution of costs and benefits at local scales. Conservation measures must account for highly divergent capacities to cope with access loss and diversify livelihoods.

AB - Despite the popularity of integrated conservation and development approaches to protected area management, adjacent communities increasingly face livelihood dilemmas. Yet understanding of how market processes and conservation enforcement interact to influence livelihood responses remains limited. Targeting eight villages in Nam Et-Phou Louey (NEPL) National Park in northern Lao PDR, we draw on survey data with 255 households, 93 semi-structured interviews, and meso-level data on village conditions to examine how residents navigate associated livelihood dilemmas. A cluster analysis reveals five livelihood types with divergent capacities to engage in market development and cope with enforcement pressures. We show how market linkages, historical conservation interventions, and local access conditions shape livelihoods and differences between villages. Our approach yields a nuanced picture of how global conservation efforts result in an uneven distribution of costs and benefits at local scales. Conservation measures must account for highly divergent capacities to cope with access loss and diversify livelihoods.

KW - Integrated Conservation and development

KW - Lao PDR

KW - Livelihoods

KW - Mixed Methods

KW - Protected Areas

U2 - 10.1007/s10745-021-00267-4

DO - 10.1007/s10745-021-00267-4

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 34642533

AN - SCOPUS:85116918498

VL - 49

SP - 597

EP - 616

JO - Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal

JF - Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal

SN - 0300-7839

ER -