Accelerated Human Population Growth at Protected Area Edges

By George Wittemyer, P. Elsen, William T. Bean, A. Burton, J. Brashares. Science, 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Parks versus PES: Evaluating direct and incentive-based land conservation in Mexico (2017, neutral): “We include population density growth as an outcome because of heated prior debates about the effects of parks on population trends (e.g. see Wittemyer et al. 2008 and response letters) and to test whether poverty alleviation impacts might be explained by migration.”
Edge effects and the impact of non‐protected areas in carnivore conservation: leopards in the Phinda–Mkhuze Complex, South Africa (2010, background): “As human populations continue to increase around protected areas, approaches that manage human activities on both sides of administrative borders will be essential if conservation of wide ranging taxa is to succeed ( Wittemyer et al., 2008 ).”
Conservation and Development: Evidence from Thai Protected Areas (2010, neutral): “[67] finds that population growth rates have been higher near parks, but this is not a direct measure of well-being and”
Effects of Protected Areas on Forest Cover Change and Local Communities (2014, background): “When regulatory control is particularly weak, protected areas can even exacerbate forest cover change by creating de facto open-access regimes (Blackman et al. 2014a; Wittemyer et al. 2008; Liu et al. 2001).”
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. (2009, background): “However, only 9.8% of the entire tropical forest biome lies within strictly protected areas (Schmitt et al. 2008), and the long-term viability of existing reserves is strongly affected by patterns of human activity in adjacent areas (Wittemyer et al. 2008).”
Evaluating wire-snare poaching trends and the impacts of by-catch on elephants and large carnivores (2013, background): “However the relative availability of resources and economic opportunities has also resulted in comparatively high human concentrations on protected area borders (Metzger et al., 2010; Wittemyer et al., 2008).”
Economic and Social Development along the Urban-Rural Continuum: New Opportunities to Inform Policy (2021, background): “…on access to provisioning services (Gutman, 2007; Herrero-Jáuregui et al., 2019), constraints to traditional sustainable grazing in protected areas (Schmitz et al., 2012), and increasing urbanization in the edges of protected areas due to the ‘park-view effect’ (Wittemyer et al., 2008).”
Moving ahead with REDD: issues, options and implications (2008, background): “Conversely, some ICDPs become economically over-successful, creating ‘magnet effects’ that attract migrants and increase natural-resource pressures (Wittemyer et al. 2008).”
Emerging issues and challenges in conservation of biodiversity in the rangelands of Tanzania (2013, background): “Food insecurity and income poverty resulting from this scenario may lead to conversion of more wildlife habitats into croplands as well as killing of wild animals for protein (Hackel 1999, Loibooki et al. 2002, Kideghesho et al. 2005, Wittemyer et al. 2008).”