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Integrating conservation and socioeconomic development: the potential of community nurseries in Mexican protected areas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 August 2019

Adriana L Luna-Nieves ,
Eduardo García-Frapolli ,
Consuelo Bonfil ,
Jorge A Meave  and
Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez Open the ORCID record for Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez [Opens in a new window]
Adriana L Luna-Nieves
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701, Col. Ex Hacienda de San José de La Huerta, C.P. 58190, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Eduardo García-Frapolli
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701, Col. Ex Hacienda de San José de La Huerta, C.P. 58190, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
Consuelo Bonfil
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Jorge A Meave
Affiliation:
Departamento de Ecología y Recursos Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coyoacán 04510, Ciudad de México, Mexico
Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Antigua Carretera a Pátzcuaro 8701, Col. Ex Hacienda de San José de La Huerta, C.P. 58190, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
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Author for correspondence: Dr Guillermo Ibarra-Manríquez, Email: gibarra@cieco.unam.mx
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Summary

Community nurseries within natural protected areas (NPAs) represent an attractive option to link biodiversity conservation with socioeconomic development, yet their functioning lacks proper assessment. Here, we analyse the national context of community nurseries in Mexican NPAs and suggest a specific framework to evaluate their viability. First, we examine the impact of a major governmental funding programme on these projects. Next, we conduct a case study in a focal nursery to identify challenges faced by its operation. Despite the large number of community nurseries funded by the programme, current performance indicators are not suitable to assess their viability. In turn, the case study reveals this nursery’s partial success, with a clear contribution to social development but a limited impact on economic improvement and vegetation conservation. Regardless of the characteristics of individual community nurseries, we suggest a framework that is potentially useful for evaluating community nursery viability, which enables agencies to detect problems, find solutions and use resources efficiently, while balancing biodiversity conservation and development.

Keywords

community enterprisesICDPsocioeconomic developmenttropical dry forestviability indicators
Type
Research Paper
Information
Environmental Conservation , Volume 46 , Issue 4: Thematic Section: Bringing Species and Ecosystems Together with Remote Sensing Tools to Develop New Biodiversity Metrics and Indicators , December 2019 , pp. 310 - 317
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© Foundation for Environmental Conservation 2019 

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