Adaptive threat management framework: integrating people and turtles

AuthorValéria R. F. Silva (valeria@tamar.org.br), Sylvia F. Mitraud (smitraud@gmail.com), Maria L. C. P. Ferraz (malu.camargo@gmail.com), Eduardo H. S. M. Lima (eduardo.lima@tamar.org.br), Maria Thereza D. Melo (thereza.damasceno@tamar.org.br), Armando J. B. Santos (armando@tamar.org.br),Augusto César C. D. Silva (cesar@tamar.org.br), Jaqueline C. Castilhos (jaqueline@tamar.org.br), Jamyle A. F. Batista (jamyle@tamar.org.br), Gustave G. Lopez (guslopez@tamar.org.br), Frederico Tognin (fred@tamar.org.br), João Carlos Thomé (jocathome@tamar.org.br), Cecília Baptistotte (cecilia@tamar.org.br), Berenice M. Gomes Silva (bere@tamar.org.br), José Henrique Becker (curupira@tamar.org.br), Juçara Wanderline (ju@tamar.org.br), Fernanda Pegas (f.pegas@griffith.edu.au), Gonzalo Róstan (gonzalo@tamar.org.br), Guy Guagni Marcovaldi (guy@tamar.org.br) andMaria Ângela G. Marcovaldi (neca@tamar.org.br) Additional contact informationEnvironment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2016, vol. 18, issue 6, pages 1541-1558

Abstract: Abstract In the 35 years since its inception, the Brazilian National Program for the Conservation of Marine Turtles (TAMAR) has had great success in protecting the five species of sea turtles that occur in Brazil. It has also contributed significantly to worldwide scientific data and knowledge about these species’ biology, such as life cycles and migration patterns. TAMAR’s conservation strategies have always relied on a variety of environmental education and social inclusion (EESI) activities highly adapted to the socio-environmental evolving contexts of its 25 locations distributed across nine states. Diversity and flexibility are critical to enable timely and effective local responses to existing or potential threats to sea turtles. The intuitive, locally adapted, decentralized, and independent way EESI activities have been carried out have generated positive results in the resolution of specific and evolving local problems through the course of the project. This article brings EESI under the same conceptual framework that underlies its conservation approach by adopting an adaptive threat management framework to organize and qualify its educational and social inclusion interventions according to the main categories of threat addressed by TAMAR.Keywords: Brazil; Community-based development; Conservation; Environmental education; Sea turtle; Social inclusion; TAMAR; Threat management (search for similar items in EconPapers)Date: 2016References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc Citations Track citations by RSS feedDownloads: (external link)http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10668-015-9716-0 Abstract (text/html) Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.Related works:This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/TextPersistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:endesu:v:18:y:2016:i:6:d:10.1007_s10668-015-9716-0Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered fromhttp://www.springer.com/economics/journal/10668Access Statistics for this articleEnvironment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development is currently edited by Luc HensMore articles in Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development from SpringerFor further details log on website :http://econpapers.repec.org/article/sprendesu/v_3a18_3ay_3a2016_3ai_3a6_3ad_3a10.1007_5fs10668-015-9716-0.htm