Eliciting local knowledge of ecosystem services using participatory mapping and Photovoice: A case study of Tun Mustapha Park, Malaysia.

Autor: Lim VC; School of Science, Monash University Malaysia, Bandar Sunway, Selangor, Malaysia., Justine EV; Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.; Kudat Turtle Conservation Society, Kudat, Sabah, Malaysia., Yusof K; Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Wan Mohamad Ariffin WNS; Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Goh HC; Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.; Centre For Sustainable Urban Planning & Real Estate (SUPRE), Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Fadzil KS; Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.; Centre for Malaysian Indigenous Studies, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2021 Jul 09; Vol. 16 (7), pp. e0253740. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jul 09 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253740
Abstrakt: Protected areas in Malaysia have always been managed using top-down approach that often exclude the local communities, who are the main users of ecosystem services, from the planning and management. However, a newly established multiple-use marine park in Malaysia, Tun Mustapha Park (TMP), aims for inclusivity in managing the park. This research explores different participatory approaches (i.e. participatory mapping and Photovoice) to understand the ecosystem services and the dynamics surrounding the services in TMP. Community-based organisations and a mariculture farm in TMP were invited to participate in this work. The participants mapped the ecosystem services and provided in-depth qualitative data that supported the maps, besides highlighting ecological, sociocultural and economic issues surrounding the ecosystem services. Furthermore, the participants provided suggestions and recommendations that carry political effects. Therefore, the participatory approaches employed here had provided rich visual and spatial data to enhance the ecosystem-based management of TMP besides empowering the participants to voice out for their communities. The results generated from this work were also further utilised to fill in the gaps of knowledge in a separate ecosystem service assessment matrix. However, the output from participatory approaches should not be considered as the ultimate outcome but rather as supplement to the planning and management of TMP due to potential human errors and biases. Although the participatory approaches came with limitations and challenges that may have affected the findings here, these nonetheless had provided support to the capability of local communities to provide information crucial for management of protected areas as well as room for improvement for further work.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they do not have competing financial interests or personal relationships that could influence the work reported here.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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