The Land Tenure Center

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The Land Tenure Center

• developing research, delivering knowledge
• Director of the Land Tenure CenterProfessor Lisa
  Naughton, Geography

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LTC Mission

• Improve environmental sustainability in
  developing countries
• Identify pro-poor conservation strategies.
• Promote good environmental governance.

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LTCs approach is multi-disciplinary and
stresses collaboration.

• Objectives
• document connections between resource access,
  poverty and environmental sustainability
• identify governance systems, land planning
  processes and institutional arrangements favoring
  sustainability
• test innovative, pro-poor biodiversity
  conservation strategies
• inform and influence the work of policymakers and
  practitioners

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Multi-disciplinary

• Small core staff of director and communications
  manager. Affiliates include faculty and research
  scientists from
• Agricultural and Applied Economics
• Animal Science
• Anthropology
• Environmental Studies
• Geography
• Law

Political Science Rural Sociology Soil
Science Urban and Regional Planning Womens
Studies
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Collaborations

• Wildlife Conservation Society
• Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
• EnterpriseWorks
• Forest Trends
• The International Livestock Research Institute
• EcoCiencia
• USAID

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Activities

• TRANSLINKS
• Land Tenure Center Spring Forum Designing
  Pro-Poor Rewards for Ecosystem Services.
• Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation
• Linking UW experts to leading NGOs and
  policymakers
• Greening Wisconsin Business
• Conserving wildlife and alleviating poverty
  through wildlife-friendly enterprises

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TRANSLINKS

• LTC is a partner in a USAID project to increase
  social, economic, and environmental benefits
  through healthy ecosystems and sustainable
  resource management. LTC is taking a leading role
  in the applied research aspect of the program.
• First year outputs
• Collaborative Land Use Planning Zoning for
  Conservation and Development in Protected Areas,
  by Lisa Naughton
• Ecological Complexity and the Management of
  Common Property Resources, by Matt Turner
• Gender and Shifting Water Governance
  Differential Effects of Privatization,
  Commodification, and Democratization, by Leila
  Harris
• Balancing the Needs of People and Wildlife When
  Wildlife Damage Crops and Prey on Livestock, by
  Adrian Treves

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Changing boundaries of protected areas in and
around Tambopata Province, Peru, 1977-2003
Source CI-Peru. Revised with permission by
UW-Madison Cartography Lab.
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Deforestation around an Ecuadorian reserve,
1977-1995
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Land Tenure Center Spring Forum

• In April 2008, LTC will convene a forum to engage
  multi-disciplinary expertise on innovative
  strategies to reward ecosystem stewards in
  developing countries, particularly in places of
  high biodiversity. Participants will address
• Evaluating and monitoring ecosystem services in
  data-poor environments
• Designing equitable and sustainable incentives in
  a context of uncertain resource tenure and/or
  small landholdings
• Compensation and financial incentives for
  wildlife conservation.

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Human Dimensions of Biodiversity Conservation

• LTC is partnering with the Center for Applied
  Biodiversity Science (CABS) of Conservation
  International (CI) to conduct research and
  analysis on the human dimensions of biodiversity
  conservation.
• Mark Harrower (Assistant Professor, Geography)
  Visualizing Ecosystem Services.
• Jack Williams (Assistant Professor Geography and
  Center for Climatic Research, Nelson Institute)
  Forecasting Climate Change in Tropical Andes
  Identifying Patterns of Vulnerability for Rural
  Poor and Biodiversity.
• Research carried out by a Nelson Graduate Student
  will assist CABS in building upon the World
  Database on Protected Areas.

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Collective bargaining marketing under a House
Brand
Rural production without harm to wildlife
Consumers purchase goods that contribute to
conservation
Wildlife-Friendly Enterprise
Fair profits with re-investment in wildlife
conservation
Wildlife monitoring to verify conservation
outcomes
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• With its newly focused research and outreach
  agenda, LTC will maintain its excellent
  reputation among international organizations and
  continue to extend the Wisconsin Idea to the
  developing world.