Different Approaches Towards the Understanding of Socio-Environmental Conflicts in Protected Areas

Eduardo García-Frapolli, Bárbara Ayala-Orozco, Malena Oliva and Robert J. Smith
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Eduardo García-Frapolli: Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Marlowe Building, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK
Bárbara Ayala-Orozco: Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antigua carretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701, Col. San José de la Huerta, Morelia CP 58190, Mexico
Malena Oliva: Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antigua carretera a Pátzcuaro No. 8701, Col. San José de la Huerta, Morelia CP 58190, Mexico
Robert J. Smith: Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Marlowe Building, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: Conflicts are an inherent element in the establishment and management of protected areas. Even though there is ample literature about conflicts in protected areas and the field of conservation has investigated them for decades, no consensus exists about the object itself of analysis: the conflict. In this article, we describe three different approaches for understanding socio-environmental conflicts, and we illustrate them with cases from protected areas in Mexico. The principal objective of the article is to advance discussions about the importance of understanding the implications of the use of different approaches on socio-environmental conflicts, in the interest of providing elements to take better decisions about the management of the protected areas.

Keywords: conservation conflicts; human–wildlife conflicts; impairment approach; political ecology; protected areas (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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