Ritah Kigonya
About
PhD Project: Exploring the potential of using biodiversity offsetting to finance protected area management
Brief Summary
In Uganda, oil and gas deposits were discovered in the Albertine Graben, a biodiversity rich area with several forest ecosystems, and national parks. To reduce the impact of development on biodiversity, the government of Uganda requires development partners to implement biodiversity offsets. Biodiversity offsets can be used to create new conservation areas, restore degraded ones, or fund management of existing protected areas. The country’s land tenure system poses a challenge in acquiring new or expanding existing conservation areas. Yet, using biodiversity offset funds also unveils risks of lack of additionality or cost shifting, lack of permanence, incomparability of impact and offset sites, and negative social impacts. I explore the country’s experiences with biodiversity offsetting to inform the potential of using biodiversity offset funds to strengthen protected area management.
Study area: Gangu Central Forest Reserve and Katonga Wildlife Reserve
Supervisors: Professor Haakon Lein and Charlotte Anne Nakakaawa-Jjunju, Department of Geography, NTNU
Publications
2022
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Barron, Elizabeth Sanna;
Chaudhary, Ram Prasad;
Carvalho Ribeiro, Sonia;
Gilman, Eric;
Hess, Jacqueline;
Hillborn, Ray.
(2022)
Chapter 3: Status of and trends in the use of wild species and its implications for wild species, the environment and people.
Chapter
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Kigonya, Ritah.
(2022)
‘Old wine in a new bottle’: conceptualization of biodiversity offsets among environmental practitioners in Uganda.
Environmental Management
Academic article
Journal publications
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Kigonya, Ritah.
(2022)
‘Old wine in a new bottle’: conceptualization of biodiversity offsets among environmental practitioners in Uganda.
Environmental Management
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Barron, Elizabeth Sanna;
Chaudhary, Ram Prasad;
Carvalho Ribeiro, Sonia;
Gilman, Eric;
Hess, Jacqueline;
Hillborn, Ray.
(2022)
Chapter 3: Status of and trends in the use of wild species and its implications for wild species, the environment and people.
Chapter