Examining factors that affect community participation in sea turtle governance : lessons learned from Eastern Pacific Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) conservation in El Salvador and Nicaragua
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this dissertation, I use a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods to study three cases of nesting sites of the critically endangered eastern Pacific hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata). In these cases, conservation organizations have implemented projects regarded as successful in achieving positive socio-ecological outcomes. In the first two chapters, I review the contextual and structural issues that initially led to the over-extraction of sea turtle eggs and consider how conservation organization interventions changed those conditions. In the third chapter, I assess the use of Performance Payments for Conservation as one of the interventions that led to the success of those conservation programs. My overall findings suggest that, while conservation programs have succeeded in engaging communities and reversing the decline of sea turtle stocks, significant contextual and structural conditions must shift in order to achieve sustainable institutional change. Overall, this dissertation's findings exemplify the use of social-ecological system frameworks to examine conservation contexts in Central America. I provide novel data that contribute to interdisciplinary endeavors related to sea-turtle and community conservation broadly, as well as recommendations that can inform the further development of these and related initiatives.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2022; ©2022 |
| Publication date | 2022; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Urteaga Augier, José Ricardo |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Degree supervisor | Crowder, Larry B |
| Thesis advisor | Ardoin, Nicole M. (Nicole Michele) |
| Thesis advisor | Crowder, Larry B |
| Thesis advisor | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Thesis advisor | Durham, William H |
| Degree committee member | Dirzo, Rodolfo |
| Degree committee member | Durham, William H |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Environmental Earth System Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | José R. Urteaga Augier. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/yf879pt7074 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2022 by Jose Ricardo Urteaga Augier
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (CC BY).
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