2017
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.13428
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A novel framework for analyzing conservation impacts: evaluation, theory, and marine protected areas

Abstract: Environmental conservation initiatives, including marine protected areas (MPAs), have proliferated in recent decades. Designed to conserve marine biodiversity, many MPAs also seek to foster sustainable development. As is the case for many other environmental policies and programs, the impacts of MPAs are poorly understood. Social-ecological systems, impact evaluation, and common-pool resource governance are three complementary scientific frameworks for documenting and explaining the ecological and social impac… Show more

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“…While the matching approach has been used within the conservation field for impact assessments of protected areas and community forest management (e.g. [72][73][74]), here we apply the approach to assess individual herding management strategies. We are able to control for multiple potentially confounding social and ecological factors, and isolate the effects of practices on ecological outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…While the matching approach has been used within the conservation field for impact assessments of protected areas and community forest management (e.g. [72][73][74]), here we apply the approach to assess individual herding management strategies. We are able to control for multiple potentially confounding social and ecological factors, and isolate the effects of practices on ecological outcomes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In Kenya, where a growing movement of community conservancies [77] parallels the growth of CBRM in Mongolia [49], our methods could be adapted to identify robust synthetic indicators and evaluate the effectiveness of conservancies in maintaining rangeland and pastoral resilience. As the conservation movement adopts more rigorous standards of evidence-based practice [73,78], the methods applied here, when adapted for other contexts, provide encouraging avenues for evaluating conservation effectiveness in rangelands globally.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Alternatively, a system of national parks may benefit more from the use of standardized surveys followed by focus group discussions at the site level to explore implications. Although all sites can benefit from rigorous experimental designs and sound causal evaluations (Ferraro & Hanauer 2014;Ferraro & Pressey 2015;Mascia et al 2017), quantitative methods and objective measures are not the only accepted approach. Qualitative evidence and subjective perceptions of the social impacts of conservation and environmental management initiatives can provide insights that will be equally important for adapting management and improving social outcomes (Bennett 2016).…”
Section: Application and Uptake Of Asim In Conservationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Funding shortfalls of ~US $50 billion per annum are at least an order of magnitude greater than existing PA budgets 8 . Poor attention to equity and PA governance also commonly undermine conservation outcomes 9 .…”
Section: Global Policy Goals Catalyze Global Actionmentioning
confidence: 99%