In last week’s GCC Journal Club meeting we discussed an article by Jeremy et al. (2012, see reference below), a paper that uses a nice framework and an impressive “multilevel design and model-fitting approach” to evaluate to what extent Community-Based Conservation (CBC) projects have been successful around the world. The study tests hypotheses about different features of the national context, project design, and community-level characteristics, an approach that provides for many possible links and explanations and a wealth of data as well as multiple options of bivariate and multivariate data analysis explaining the success CBC case studies.  Continue reading →

Wanting to update myself on the Community-Based Conservation literature of the past decade, and inspired by much of Kothari’s work recently, I decided to bring to this week’s journal club a paper (published earlier this year in Conservation and Society) that touches upon several themes and issues that researchers at GCC are working with currently (e.g. conservation, governance, protected areas, and indigenous peoples, just to mention a few). Continue reading →