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Souza CN, Almeida JAGR, Correia RA, Ladle RJ, Carvalho AR, Malhado ACM. Assessing Brazilian protected areas through social media: Insights from 10 years of public interest and engagement. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0293581. [PMID: 37903131 PMCID: PMC10615306 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0293581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 11/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Social media platforms are a valuable source of data for investigating cultural and political trends related to public interest in nature and conservation. Here, we use the micro-blogging social network Twitter to explore trends in public interest in Brazilian protected areas (PAs). We identified ~400,000 Portuguese language tweets pertaining to all categories of Brazilian PAs over a ten-year period (1 January 2011-31 December 2020). We analysed the content of these tweets and calculated metrics of user engagement (likes and retweets) to uncover patterns and drivers of public interest in Brazilian PAs. Our results indicate that users / tweets mentioning PAs remained stable throughout the sample period. However, engagement with tweets grew steeply, particularly from 2018 onward and coinciding with a change in the Brazilian federal government. Furthermore, public interest was not evenly distributed across PAs; while national parks were the subject of the most tweets, mainly related to tourism activities, tweets related to conflicts among park users and managers were more likely to engage Twitter users. Our study highlights that automatic or semi-automatic monitoring of social media content and engagement has great potential as an early warning system to identify emerging conflicts and to generate data and metrics to support PA policy, governance and management.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carolina Neves Souza
- Programa de pós-graduação em Diversidade Biológica e Conservação nos Trópicos, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil
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- Department of Geosciences and Geography, Helsinki Lab of Interdisciplinary Conservation Science (HELICS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
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- Programa de pós-graduação em Diversidade Biológica e Conservação nos Trópicos, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil
- Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO), Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
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- Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
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- Programa de pós-graduação em Diversidade Biológica e Conservação nos Trópicos, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Maceió, Alagoas, Brasil
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Chambon M, Miñarro S, Alvarez Fernandez S, Porcher V, Reyes-Garcia V, Tonalli Drouet H, Ziveri P. A synthesis of women's participation in small-scale fisheries management: why women's voices matter. REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES 2023; 34:43-63. [PMID: 38322616 PMCID: PMC10838824 DOI: 10.1007/s11160-023-09806-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 02/08/2024]
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While women globally make up nearly half of the fisheries workforce, their contribution to the sector has long been overlooked with implications for fisheries management. To assess women's participation in small-scale fisheries (SSF) management and related socio-cultural, environmental, and economic impacts, we conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature (n = 124 case studies). Women had no or limited participation in more than 80% of the examined case studies reporting their participation level in SSF management. Women's exclusion from SSF management resulted in negative outcomes, whereas their active participation was associated with various positive impacts at multiple scales. Most of the documented impacts were socio-cultural, suggesting a gap in documenting environmental impacts stemmed from women's participation in SSF management. Importantly, most impacts reported affected the social-ecological system scale, suggesting that gender inclusion may contribute to improving the management of SSF social-ecological systems. We conclude by highlighting the need to foster gender perspectives in data collection methods used in fisheries research, in SSF management, and in ecological research on SSF social-ecological systems. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11160-023-09806-2.
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- Mouna Chambon
- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (ICTA-UAB), 08193 Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (ICTA-UAB), 08193 Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (ICTA-UAB), 08193 Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (ICTA-UAB), 08193 Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
- Institut de Recherche Pour Le Développement (IRD) & Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique Pour Le Développement (Cirad), Unité Mixte de Recherche “Savoirs Environnement Sociétés”(SENS), Montpellier, France
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (ICTA-UAB), 08193 Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain
- Department d’Antropologia Social I Cultural, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (ICTA-UAB), 08193 Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
- Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain
- Department de Biologia Animal, Biologia Vegetal I Ecologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Barcelona, Bellaterra Spain
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