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Papers by David Tecklin
Chilean Patagonia offers a unique opportunity at both the national and international levels to es... more Chilean Patagonia offers a unique opportunity at both the national and international levels to establish an integrated system of coastal-marine protection of enormous value for biodiversity and society. This chapter describes the creation, current status, and principal geographic characteristics of the different forms of coastal-marine protection in the region in order to provide an overview of progress and challenges. Current coverage of marine protected areas, which have been the focus of most work to date, is limited to 6% (11,218 km 2) of Patagonia's coastal-marine zone. However, the interior waters within national parks and national reserves that make up the National Protected Area System cover an additional 35% of the coastal zone (63,933 km 2) and represent 85% of the legally protected marine area. In addition, requests by Indigenous communities to establish Indigenous People's Coastal Marine Spaces (in Spanish Espacios Costeros Marinos de Pueblos Originarios, ECMPO) now total 62.931 km 2 across 65 different areas and present an important potential complementary
Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, 2016
Energy Policy, 2017
The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governance questions. Wi... more The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governance questions. With small hydropower (SHP) expanding as part of renewable energy and climate mitigation strategies, this review assesses its impacts and identifies escalating policy issues. To provide a comprehensive literature review of small hydropower, we evaluated over 3600 articles and policy documents. This review identified four major concerns: (1) confusion in small hydropower definitions is convoluting scholarship and policy-making; (2) there is a lack of knowledge and acknowledgement of small hydropower's social, environmental, and cumulative impacts; (3) small hydropower's promotion as a climate mitigation strategy can negatively affect local communities, posing contradictions for climate change policy; and (4) institutional analysis is needed to facilitate renewable energy integration with existing environmental laws to ensure sustainable energy development. For readers interested in small hydropower, we clarify areas of confusion in definition and explain the corresponding impacts for distinct system designs. For a broader readership, we situate small hydropower implementation within international trends of renewable energy developmentthe contradictory impacts of climate change policy, emerging dynamics in energy finance, and reliance on market mechanisms. Our paper provides a timely contribution to scholarship on small hydropower and the transition to renewable energy.
Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation, 2011
... Australia. The elements of this ancient flora are still conspicuous today (Villagrán andHinoj... more ... Australia. The elements of this ancient flora are still conspicuous today (Villagrán andHinojosa 1997), but were dominant as part of the Tertiary flora of southern South America as long as 65 million years ago (Axelrod et al. 1991). ...
WWF-Chile, Programa …, 2005
Page 1. Ricardo Correa Documento Nº 11 Serie de Publicaciones WWF Chile Programa Ecoregión Valdiv... more Page 1. Ricardo Correa Documento Nº 11 Serie de Publicaciones WWF Chile Programa Ecoregión Valdiviana Patricio Pliscoff David Tecklin Aldo Farías Jorge Sáez Valdivia, marzo 2005 ANÁLISIS DE PAISAJE DE CONSERVACIÓN PARA LA ...
Chile's Patagonian region houses globally unique ecosystems whose conservation has been addressed... more Chile's Patagonian region houses globally unique ecosystems whose conservation has been addressed principally through the National Protected Areas System (in Spanish SNASPE). In order to improve understanding of the region's current level of protection, we analyze the history, coverage, and management status of legally protected areas. Patagonia's SNASPE accounts for a high percentage of the total land under protection in Chile, and includes archipelagos, fjords, channels, glaciers, icefields, and large areas of globally unique and highly intact forests. Management of the National System of State Wild Protected areas by the National Forestry Corporation has advanced substantially over the last century. Nonetheless, Areas our evaluation, which was carried out using official data, indicates the persistence of important limitations in almost all protected areas evaluated. There is a need to strengthen institutional capacities in order to overcome historic problems and raise levels of management. We present recommendations that highlight the importance of strengthening the legal framework, as well as the need to bring planning up to date, and improve management inputs through public policies that address gaps in funding.
Conservation Science and Practice
WWF-Chile: Valdivia, …, 2008
La Cordillera de la Costa es considerada una isla biogeográfica ya que en el último período de gl... more La Cordillera de la Costa es considerada una isla biogeográfica ya que en el último período de glaciar (período cuaternario 1, 6 millones de años) fue el refugio de gran cantidad de especies. Hoy en día la Cordillera de la Costa existe un gran nivel de endemismos, y se ...
Conservación en la Patagonia Chilena: Evaluación del conocimiento, oportunidades y desafíos, 2021
Resumen. La Patagonia chilena representa hoy una oportunidad única a nivel nacio- nal y mundial d... more Resumen. La Patagonia chilena representa hoy una oportunidad única a nivel nacio- nal y mundial de generar un sistema integrado de protección costero-marina de gran valor para la conservación de la biodiversidad y para la sociedad. Con el objetivo de conocer los avances y desafíos en la materia, se describe la evolución, situación actual y las principales características geográficas de las figuras de protección costero-marina. Actualmente, la cobertura de Áreas Marinas Protegidas decretadas, excluyendo las que forman parte del Sistema Nacional de Áreas Silvestres Protegidas del Estado (SNASPE), es de 11.218 km2 (6% de la zona costero-marina patagónica). Adicionalmente, están las aguas interiores de los Parques y Reservas Nacionales que forman parte del SNASPE, que cubren el 35% de la zona costera (63.933 km2), lo que representa el 85% del total de maritorio patagónico protegido. Existe también una superficie solicitada para Espacios Costeros Marinos de Pueblos Originarios (ECMPO, 62.931 km2 en 65 áreas) con potencial importante de proveer conservación complementaria a las áreas pro- tegidas. Este estudio propone ampliar la mirada histórica hacia la conservación de la biodiversidad marina en la Patagonia chilena, con un reconocimiento al mosaico total de las figuras de protección marina y aquellas figuras de administración potencialmente complementarias. Se presentan recomendaciones para estrategias prioritarias con el fin de consolidar un sistema integrado de conservación costero-marina de amplia distribución en la Patagonia chilena. Estas incluyen: fortalecer la gestión efectiva de la porción marina del SNASPE, desarrollar un protocolo para reconocer los ECMPO como Áreas Marinas Protegidas, generar mecanismos públicos y público-privados de financiamiento, entregar apoyo técnico para la gestión de todas las figuras de protección, y fomentar una planificación y gestión integrada entre ambientes terrestres y marinos.
Abstract. Chilean Patagonia offers a unique opportunity at both the national and international levels to establish an integrated system of coastal-marine protection of enormous value for biodiversity and society. This chapter describes the creation, current status and principal geographic characteristics of the different forms of coastal-marine protection in order to provide an overview of progress and challenges in the region. Current coverage of marine protected areas, which have been the focus of most work to date is limited to 6% (11.218 km2) of Patagonia’s coastal-marine zone. However, the interior waters within national parks and national reserves that make up the National System of State Protected Areas cover an additional 35% of the coastal zone (63.933 km2) and represent 85% of the legally protected marine area. In addition, requests by Indigenous communities to establish Indigenous People’s Coastal Marine Spaces (ECMPO) now total 62.931km2 in 65 different areas and present an important potential complementary conservation tool. This study thus proposes the need to expand our understanding of marine biodiversity conservation in Patagonia with a recognition of all forms of marine protection as well as those co-management forms like ECMPO that are potentially complementary. Finally, we provide recommendations for priority strategies in order to consolidate a large-scale integrated coastal-marine conservation system for Chilean Patagonia. These include: strengthen effective management of the marine portion of national parks and reserves, develop a protocol for recognition of ECMPO as marine protected areas, create public and public-private funding mecha- nisms and technical assistance for all forms of protection, and promote integrated land-sea planning and management.
A B S T R A C T The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governan... more A B S T R A C T The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governance questions. With small hydropower (SHP) expanding as part of renewable energy and climate mitigation strategies, this review assesses its impacts and identifies escalating policy issues. To provide a comprehensive literature review of small hydropower, we evaluated over 3600 articles and policy documents. This review identified four major concerns: (1) confusion in small hydropower definitions is convoluting scholarship and policy-making; (2) there is a lack of knowledge and acknowledgement of small hydropower's social, environmental, and cumulative impacts; (3) small hydropower's promotion as a climate mitigation strategy can negatively affect local communities, posing contradictions for climate change policy; and (4) institutional analysis is needed to facilitate renewable energy integration with existing environmental laws to ensure sustainable energy development. For readers interested in small hydropower, we clarify areas of confusion in definition and explain the corresponding impacts for distinct system designs. For a broader readership, we situate small hydropower implementation within international trends of renewable energy development – the contradictory impacts of climate change policy, emerging dynamics in energy finance, and reliance on market mechanisms. Our paper provides a timely contribution to scholarship on small hydropower and the transition to renewable energy.
Environmental Politics , 2011
As one of the earliest and deepest cases of neoliberal reform, Chile's political economic model h... more As one of the earliest and deepest cases of neoliberal reform, Chile's political economic model has been the subject of extensive debate. The associated environmental law and policy that emerged in this context has, however, received little attention. The country's environmental policymaking process as well as the character and effects of the environmental regime that emerged are examined. Environmental policymaking has been tightly constrained by institutional and political arrangements that embody neoliberal principles such that legislation only advances when internal demands connect up with global forces. As a result, and despite many regulatory initiatives, the environmental regime expresses a strongly market-enabling quality instead of the market-regulating character commonly ascribed to environmental law and policy.
Private land conservation and many other contemporary environmental practices and policies are co... more Private land conservation and many other contemporary environmental practices and policies are commonly of private property rights with markets, and that it can obscure the diversity of institutional logics, practices, and political dynamics involved in conservation. We seek to illustrate this diversity through an analysis of private protected areas (PPA) in Chile. Through the experiences of different types of protected areas, as well as the conservation within a legal and policy framework widely considered to be market friendly. Based on the diverse qualities of property rights observed in conservation projects we suggest the need for a critical environmental research agenda focussed on this neglected form of institutional diversity.
Chilean Patagonia offers a unique opportunity at both the national and international levels to es... more Chilean Patagonia offers a unique opportunity at both the national and international levels to establish an integrated system of coastal-marine protection of enormous value for biodiversity and society. This chapter describes the creation, current status, and principal geographic characteristics of the different forms of coastal-marine protection in the region in order to provide an overview of progress and challenges. Current coverage of marine protected areas, which have been the focus of most work to date, is limited to 6% (11,218 km 2) of Patagonia's coastal-marine zone. However, the interior waters within national parks and national reserves that make up the National Protected Area System cover an additional 35% of the coastal zone (63,933 km 2) and represent 85% of the legally protected marine area. In addition, requests by Indigenous communities to establish Indigenous People's Coastal Marine Spaces (in Spanish Espacios Costeros Marinos de Pueblos Originarios, ECMPO) now total 62.931 km 2 across 65 different areas and present an important potential complementary
Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy, 2016
Energy Policy, 2017
The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governance questions. Wi... more The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governance questions. With small hydropower (SHP) expanding as part of renewable energy and climate mitigation strategies, this review assesses its impacts and identifies escalating policy issues. To provide a comprehensive literature review of small hydropower, we evaluated over 3600 articles and policy documents. This review identified four major concerns: (1) confusion in small hydropower definitions is convoluting scholarship and policy-making; (2) there is a lack of knowledge and acknowledgement of small hydropower's social, environmental, and cumulative impacts; (3) small hydropower's promotion as a climate mitigation strategy can negatively affect local communities, posing contradictions for climate change policy; and (4) institutional analysis is needed to facilitate renewable energy integration with existing environmental laws to ensure sustainable energy development. For readers interested in small hydropower, we clarify areas of confusion in definition and explain the corresponding impacts for distinct system designs. For a broader readership, we situate small hydropower implementation within international trends of renewable energy developmentthe contradictory impacts of climate change policy, emerging dynamics in energy finance, and reliance on market mechanisms. Our paper provides a timely contribution to scholarship on small hydropower and the transition to renewable energy.
Temperate and Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation, 2011
... Australia. The elements of this ancient flora are still conspicuous today (Villagrán andHinoj... more ... Australia. The elements of this ancient flora are still conspicuous today (Villagrán andHinojosa 1997), but were dominant as part of the Tertiary flora of southern South America as long as 65 million years ago (Axelrod et al. 1991). ...
WWF-Chile, Programa …, 2005
Page 1. Ricardo Correa Documento Nº 11 Serie de Publicaciones WWF Chile Programa Ecoregión Valdiv... more Page 1. Ricardo Correa Documento Nº 11 Serie de Publicaciones WWF Chile Programa Ecoregión Valdiviana Patricio Pliscoff David Tecklin Aldo Farías Jorge Sáez Valdivia, marzo 2005 ANÁLISIS DE PAISAJE DE CONSERVACIÓN PARA LA ...
Chile's Patagonian region houses globally unique ecosystems whose conservation has been addressed... more Chile's Patagonian region houses globally unique ecosystems whose conservation has been addressed principally through the National Protected Areas System (in Spanish SNASPE). In order to improve understanding of the region's current level of protection, we analyze the history, coverage, and management status of legally protected areas. Patagonia's SNASPE accounts for a high percentage of the total land under protection in Chile, and includes archipelagos, fjords, channels, glaciers, icefields, and large areas of globally unique and highly intact forests. Management of the National System of State Wild Protected areas by the National Forestry Corporation has advanced substantially over the last century. Nonetheless, Areas our evaluation, which was carried out using official data, indicates the persistence of important limitations in almost all protected areas evaluated. There is a need to strengthen institutional capacities in order to overcome historic problems and raise levels of management. We present recommendations that highlight the importance of strengthening the legal framework, as well as the need to bring planning up to date, and improve management inputs through public policies that address gaps in funding.
Conservation Science and Practice
WWF-Chile: Valdivia, …, 2008
La Cordillera de la Costa es considerada una isla biogeográfica ya que en el último período de gl... more La Cordillera de la Costa es considerada una isla biogeográfica ya que en el último período de glaciar (período cuaternario 1, 6 millones de años) fue el refugio de gran cantidad de especies. Hoy en día la Cordillera de la Costa existe un gran nivel de endemismos, y se ...
Conservación en la Patagonia Chilena: Evaluación del conocimiento, oportunidades y desafíos, 2021
Resumen. La Patagonia chilena representa hoy una oportunidad única a nivel nacio- nal y mundial d... more Resumen. La Patagonia chilena representa hoy una oportunidad única a nivel nacio- nal y mundial de generar un sistema integrado de protección costero-marina de gran valor para la conservación de la biodiversidad y para la sociedad. Con el objetivo de conocer los avances y desafíos en la materia, se describe la evolución, situación actual y las principales características geográficas de las figuras de protección costero-marina. Actualmente, la cobertura de Áreas Marinas Protegidas decretadas, excluyendo las que forman parte del Sistema Nacional de Áreas Silvestres Protegidas del Estado (SNASPE), es de 11.218 km2 (6% de la zona costero-marina patagónica). Adicionalmente, están las aguas interiores de los Parques y Reservas Nacionales que forman parte del SNASPE, que cubren el 35% de la zona costera (63.933 km2), lo que representa el 85% del total de maritorio patagónico protegido. Existe también una superficie solicitada para Espacios Costeros Marinos de Pueblos Originarios (ECMPO, 62.931 km2 en 65 áreas) con potencial importante de proveer conservación complementaria a las áreas pro- tegidas. Este estudio propone ampliar la mirada histórica hacia la conservación de la biodiversidad marina en la Patagonia chilena, con un reconocimiento al mosaico total de las figuras de protección marina y aquellas figuras de administración potencialmente complementarias. Se presentan recomendaciones para estrategias prioritarias con el fin de consolidar un sistema integrado de conservación costero-marina de amplia distribución en la Patagonia chilena. Estas incluyen: fortalecer la gestión efectiva de la porción marina del SNASPE, desarrollar un protocolo para reconocer los ECMPO como Áreas Marinas Protegidas, generar mecanismos públicos y público-privados de financiamiento, entregar apoyo técnico para la gestión de todas las figuras de protección, y fomentar una planificación y gestión integrada entre ambientes terrestres y marinos.
Abstract. Chilean Patagonia offers a unique opportunity at both the national and international levels to establish an integrated system of coastal-marine protection of enormous value for biodiversity and society. This chapter describes the creation, current status and principal geographic characteristics of the different forms of coastal-marine protection in order to provide an overview of progress and challenges in the region. Current coverage of marine protected areas, which have been the focus of most work to date is limited to 6% (11.218 km2) of Patagonia’s coastal-marine zone. However, the interior waters within national parks and national reserves that make up the National System of State Protected Areas cover an additional 35% of the coastal zone (63.933 km2) and represent 85% of the legally protected marine area. In addition, requests by Indigenous communities to establish Indigenous People’s Coastal Marine Spaces (ECMPO) now total 62.931km2 in 65 different areas and present an important potential complementary conservation tool. This study thus proposes the need to expand our understanding of marine biodiversity conservation in Patagonia with a recognition of all forms of marine protection as well as those co-management forms like ECMPO that are potentially complementary. Finally, we provide recommendations for priority strategies in order to consolidate a large-scale integrated coastal-marine conservation system for Chilean Patagonia. These include: strengthen effective management of the marine portion of national parks and reserves, develop a protocol for recognition of ECMPO as marine protected areas, create public and public-private funding mecha- nisms and technical assistance for all forms of protection, and promote integrated land-sea planning and management.
A B S T R A C T The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governan... more A B S T R A C T The transition to renewable energy technologies raises new and important governance questions. With small hydropower (SHP) expanding as part of renewable energy and climate mitigation strategies, this review assesses its impacts and identifies escalating policy issues. To provide a comprehensive literature review of small hydropower, we evaluated over 3600 articles and policy documents. This review identified four major concerns: (1) confusion in small hydropower definitions is convoluting scholarship and policy-making; (2) there is a lack of knowledge and acknowledgement of small hydropower's social, environmental, and cumulative impacts; (3) small hydropower's promotion as a climate mitigation strategy can negatively affect local communities, posing contradictions for climate change policy; and (4) institutional analysis is needed to facilitate renewable energy integration with existing environmental laws to ensure sustainable energy development. For readers interested in small hydropower, we clarify areas of confusion in definition and explain the corresponding impacts for distinct system designs. For a broader readership, we situate small hydropower implementation within international trends of renewable energy development – the contradictory impacts of climate change policy, emerging dynamics in energy finance, and reliance on market mechanisms. Our paper provides a timely contribution to scholarship on small hydropower and the transition to renewable energy.
Environmental Politics , 2011
As one of the earliest and deepest cases of neoliberal reform, Chile's political economic model h... more As one of the earliest and deepest cases of neoliberal reform, Chile's political economic model has been the subject of extensive debate. The associated environmental law and policy that emerged in this context has, however, received little attention. The country's environmental policymaking process as well as the character and effects of the environmental regime that emerged are examined. Environmental policymaking has been tightly constrained by institutional and political arrangements that embody neoliberal principles such that legislation only advances when internal demands connect up with global forces. As a result, and despite many regulatory initiatives, the environmental regime expresses a strongly market-enabling quality instead of the market-regulating character commonly ascribed to environmental law and policy.
Private land conservation and many other contemporary environmental practices and policies are co... more Private land conservation and many other contemporary environmental practices and policies are commonly of private property rights with markets, and that it can obscure the diversity of institutional logics, practices, and political dynamics involved in conservation. We seek to illustrate this diversity through an analysis of private protected areas (PPA) in Chile. Through the experiences of different types of protected areas, as well as the conservation within a legal and policy framework widely considered to be market friendly. Based on the diverse qualities of property rights observed in conservation projects we suggest the need for a critical environmental research agenda focussed on this neglected form of institutional diversity.