Alejandra Orozco Quintero

This commentary is a reflection based on research, personal experience working in conservation and environmental governance, and participation in the 2014 World Parks Congress.In the Congress we noted a lack of attention to the role that state-led and private protected areas continue to play in fostering social injustice. We provide a short descrip...

Although protected areas (PAs) have become pivotal components in the pursuit of environmental sustainability, they have had mixed success in achieving environmental goals, in part due to internal factors such as governance design and insufficient ability to operate within, and connect to, wider social, economic, and institutional frameworks. A grow...

Resumen: Proclamadas como el "éxito más importante en conservación", la creación de áreas protegidas se ha convertido en el método preferido de los estados miembros del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica para enfrentar retos de conservación. Sin embargo, áreas protegidas gobernadas por las agencias del estado han sido criticadas por su limitado...

Proclaimed as the "most important conservation success story", protected areas have become the preferred method among state signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity for addressing conservation challenges. However, state-governed protected areas have been criticized for their failure to achieve ecological and social goals. Reaching a co...

Nadharia: Maeneo yanayohifadhiwa yanatajwa kama "simulizi ya mafanikio muhimu zaidi ya uhifadhi", yamekuwa ni njia inayopendelewa zaidi na miongoni mwa wakuu wa kitaifa katika maafikiano ya Biolojia anuai ya kuelezea changamoto zinazokabili uhifadhi wa mazingira. Hata hivyo maeneo ya hifadhi yaliyo chini ya mamlaka za kiserekali zimekuwa zikikosol...

Research and policy analysis on public land governance in Kenya and on the impacts of the illegal grabbing of public utility lands.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe the pervasiveness and importance of various types of institutional and organizational interactions across multiple levels for the management of a community forest enterprise. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyzes a long‐standing case in Michoacán, Mexico, the San Juan Nuevo (SJ...

Commons scholarship has tended to focus on the administration and use of commons by individuals and households and less so on collective enterprises that extract, transform and market what they harvest from the commons. In this paper, we consider Nuevo San Juan, a Mexican case that is well known in the community forestry and commons literature. In...

Commons scholarship has tended to focus on the administration and use of commons by individuals and households and less so on collective enterprises that extract, transform and market what they harvest from the commons. In this paper, we consider Nuevo San Juan, a Mexican case that is well known in the community forestry and commons literature. In...

"The commons is well represented by cases in which the commons is a source of raw materials harvested by the commoners and than consumed directly or marginal surpluses sold through a commodity chain to buyers, processors and marketers. Such indigenous, or peasant households, it is assumed, are rarely able to undertake the collective action necessar...