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Why do people participate in monitoring the effects of natural resource harvest and trade? Assessing multiple drivers of participation.

Brites, Alice Dantas

Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Instituto de Energia e Ambiente 2015-03-03

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  • Título:
    Why do people participate in monitoring the effects of natural resource harvest and trade? Assessing multiple drivers of participation.
  • Autor: Brites, Alice Dantas
  • Orientador: Morsello, Carla
  • Assuntos: Amazônia Brasileira; Produtos Florestais Não Madeireiros; Monitoramento E Avaliação; Manejo Comunitário; Comportamento Pró-Ambiental; Reserva Extrativista; Extractive Reserve; Community-Based Management; Monitoring And Evaluation; Non-Timber Forest Products; Pro-Environmental Behavior; Brazilian Amazon
  • Notas: Tese (Doutorado)
  • Notas Locais: Programa de Pós de Graduação em Energia
  • Descrição: Participatory monitoring of ecological and socioeconomic effects of harvesting and trading natural resources is advocated as a promoter of natural resource conservation and local communitiy empowerment. Nevertheless, the strategys success depends upon peoples willingness and availability to participate. Yet little is known about the factors that drive local communities to volunteer in participatory monitoring, particularly in relation to small-scale communities living in remote locations. This thesis investigated whether a number of candidate factors were able to predict peoples participation in monitoring. To do so, we conducted a study in a forest community of the Brazilian Amazon that harvested and traded Carapa guianensis (andiroba), a non-timber forest product (NTFP). Two methods of data gathering were employed: (i) an interview-based survey of 166 adults ( 18 y.o.; 51 households) to estimate peoples self-stated intention to participate and the drivers of their participation, and (ii) experimentally-implemented monitoring tasks of the effects of harvesting and trading C. guianensis to measure peoples actual participation. Results are presented in three chapters. In Chapter 1, we evaluated whether economic benefits received from the NTFP trade or, alternatively peoples cooperativeness, were more important in predicting peoples participation. Results indicated that both variables raised peoples intention and actual levels of participation in monitoring, but cooperativeness was a stronger and better predictor across monitoring tasks. In Chapter 2, we investigated the psychology of engaging in monitoring, departing from the theoretical framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) for understanding whether the variables in the model were appropriate to predict the willingness to volunteer in monitoring tasks. We found that the TPB model, in general, was able to predict peoples intention to volunteer in monitoring tasks. Specifically, one of the attitude indicators (attitude pleasure) explained the intention to engage in all monitoring tasks assessed. Subjective norms were also important to predict the intention to collect data on natural resource populations and to interview community inhabitants, whereas perceived behavioral control predicted the intention to collect data on natural resources and to deal with data management and storage. Finally, in Chapter 3 we hypothesized that the awareness of ecological and socioeconomic impacts of NTFP harvest and trade should explain peoples participation in monitoring. Results indicated that both factors were important, particularly regarding to peoples actual participation, although factors such as gender, age and schooling were occasionally stronger predictors. Nevertheless, there is evidence that combining monitoring of ecological and socioeconomic factors will boost the practices success. The study conclusions contribute to lessons aimed at stimulating participation in monitoring. Among those, we highlight the importance of strategies to increase levels of cooperativeness among people, spreading information about the possible negative effects of natural resource harvest and trade, and granting financial compensations equivalent to the opportunity costs of participation.
  • DOI: 10.11606/T.106.2015.tde-24072015-100431
  • Editor: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP; Universidade de São Paulo; Instituto de Energia e Ambiente
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2015-03-03
  • Formato: Adobe PDF
  • Idioma: Inglês
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