Conservation and privatization decisions in land reform of New Zealand’s high country
| Autor: | Molly C Daniels, Adena R. Rissman, Ann Brower, Peter R. Tait, Xiaojing Xing |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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0106 biological sciences
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Public land Natural resource economics Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Biodiversity Vegetation Management Monitoring Policy and Law 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Pollution Conservation easement Threatened species Business Recreation Productivity Land reform 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Nature and Landscape Conservation Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Conservation. 48:165-173 |
| ISSN: | 1469-4387 0376-8929 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0376892921000126 |
| Popis: | SummaryNeoliberal land reforms to increase economic development have important implications for biodiversity conservation. This paper investigates land reform in New Zealand’s South Island that divides leased state-owned stations (ranches) with private grazing leases into state-owned conservation land, private land owned by the former leaseholder and private land under protective covenant (similar to conservation easement). Conserved lands had less threatened vegetation, lower productivity, less proximity to towns and steeper slopes than privatized lands. Covenants on private land were more common in intermediate zones with moderate land-use productivity and slope. Lands identified with ecological or recreational ‘significant inherent values’ were more likely to shift into conserved or covenant status. Yet among lands with identified ecological values, higher-threat areas were more likely to be privatized than lower-threat areas. This paper makes two novel contributions: (1) quantitatively examining the role of scientific recommendations about significant inherent values in land reform outcomes; and (2) examining the use of conservation covenants on privatized land. To achieve biodiversity goals, it is critical to avoid or prevent the removal of land-use restrictions beyond protected areas. |
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