Long-distance social relationships can both undercut and promote local natural resource management

Between-community (or long-distance) connections can undercut sustainability but can promote it too, building trust and interdependence between communities that share a resource. We reviewed this with case examples in a recent paper: royalsocietypublish…

Previous research on between-community relationships emphasized how they can hurt conservation by facilitating leakage. We show that these relationships can also help conservation, but more research is needed to identify when they help vs hurt royalsoci…