期刊
HUMAN ECOLOGY
卷 44, 期 6, 页码 715-730出版社
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-016-9868-z
关键词
Africa; Common property; Conservation; Ethiopia; Land-use change; Sacred groves; Tropical deforestation
资金
- Picker Interdisciplinary Science Institute at Colgate University
- Div Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1518501] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Protection of forests because of their association with religious traditions is a worldwide phenomenon. These sacred forests play a key role in maintaining ecosystem services in regions affected by land system change. In the northern highlands of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church controls the majority of the surviving native forest. However, the reasons why communities value the forests and the ways they use and manage them are not well understood. We use data and analysis from an interdisciplinary project and ethnographic research, in particular, to explain how Ethiopian church forests function. Church forests represent an unusual form of community-based protection that integrates locally controlled common property with external institutional arrangements: this hybrid system is highly effective at protecting the forest while maintaining cultural practices. Our results inform theoretical debates about models of tropical forest protection and question assumptions about church forests being the product of a nature conservation imperative.
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