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dc.contributor.authorBiggs, Duan
dc.contributor.authorCooney, Rosie
dc.contributor.authorRoe, Dilys
dc.contributor.authorDublin, Holly T
dc.contributor.authorAllan, James R
dc.contributor.authorChallender, Dan WS
dc.contributor.authorSkinner, Diane
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-19T01:41:56Z
dc.date.available2017-06-19T01:41:56Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.issn0888-8892
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/cobi.12796
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/340253
dc.description.abstractThe escalating illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the most high-profile conservation challenges today. The crisis has attracted over US$350 million in donor and government funding in recent years, primarily directed at increased enforcement. There is growing recognition among practitioners and policy makers of the need to engage rural communities that neighbor or live with wildlife as key partners in tackling IWT. However, a framework to guide such community engagement is lacking. We developed a theory of change (ToC) to guide policy makers, donors, and practitioners in partnering with communities to combat IWT. We identified 4 pathways for community-level actions: strengthen disincentives for illegal behavior, increase incentives for wildlife stewardship, decrease costs of living with wildlife, and support livelihoods that are not related to wildlife. To succeed the pathways, all require strengthening of enabling conditions, including capacity building, and of governance. Our ToC serves to guide actions to tackle IWT and to inform the evaluation of policies. Moreover, it can be used to foster dialogue among IWT stakeholders, from local communities to governments and international donors, to develop a more effective, holistic, and sustainable community-based response to the IWT crisis.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom5
dc.relation.ispartofpageto12
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalConservation Biology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchConservation and biodiversity
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBiological sciences
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEnvironmental management
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode41
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode410401
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode31
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4104
dc.titleDeveloping a theory of change for a community-based response to illegal wildlife trade
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Environmental Futures Research Institute
gro.rights.copyright© 2016 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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