Measuring performance under a landscape approach to biodiversity conservation: the case of USAID/Madagascar

Medley, Kimberly E.

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“…(2008) assessed the extent to which systematic assessments have led to implemented actions. Other planners have reflected on personal or organizational experiences in particular planning regions (Medley 2004; Smith et al . 2006; Green et al .…”

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“…Knight et al (2008) assessed the extent to which systematic assessments have led to implemented actions. Other planners have reflected on personal or organizational experiences in particular planning regions (Medley 2004;Green et al 2009), provided perspectives on planning within environmental realms (Leslie 2005;Osmond et al 2010), or reviewed specific approaches (Didier et al 2009;Henson et al 2009;Morrison et al 2009). While these studies provide useful information, they are largely narrative, context-specific, and narrow in scope and purpose.…”

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The effectiveness and evaluation of conservation planning

Bottrill

Pressey

2012

Conservation Letters

110

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Investment of time and resources in conservation planning has grown exponentially in recent years; yet there has been limited evaluation of the benefits and costs of investing in planning exercises. Without evaluation, investments in planning are not accountable, decisions are not defensible, and learning from past experiences is limited. Bringing together information from published literature, planning documents, and new qualitative data from interviews with planners, we describe an evaluation framework for conservation planning to more fully address the potential range of outcomes, categorized across five types of capital: natural, financial, social, human, and institutional. We review the extent to which evidence supports these types of outcomes, and finish by considering the conceptual, operational, organizational, and policy implications of improved evaluation in planning. If conservation planning seeks to be effective, adaptive, and informative, then systems of evaluation must be considered from the outset of planning processes to support learning and improvement of outcomes.

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Section: Existing Approaches To Evaluation Of Conservation Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Existing Approaches To Evaluation Of Conservation Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effectiveness and evaluation of conservation planning

Bottrill

Pressey

2012

Conservation Letters

110

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“…Globally derived hypotheses explaining biodiversity loss compartmentalize these landscapes into pristine and human utilized lands and focus primarily on understanding degradation processes as they influence designated protected units (see Brosius and Russell, 2003 on “Conservation from Above”). Monitoring and evaluation programs accordingly identify proximate threats and quantitatively assess them as impacts on protected areas (Medley, 2000; Brosius and Russell, 2003; e.g., Salafsky and Margoluis, 1999 on threat analysis). While global conservation agencies may provide strong scientific rationale for setting geographic priorities among regions, the landscapes within these regions are rarely comprised of discrete units (Vayda, 1996).…”

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Global localism: Recentering the research agenda for biodiversity conservation

Medley

Kalibo

2007

Natural Resources Forum

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Global environmental crisis narratives about biodiversity loss promote conservation research on how human activities impact natural resources and link scientific findings to protectionist policies. This paper critiques how local knowledge, over space and through time, is constructed for these studies and integrated with ecological measures and qualitative interpretations of biodiversity conditions. As a case example, we describe how ethnoecological research at Mt. Kasigau, a biodiversity hot spot in Southeastern Kenya, changes ‘scientific’ views on human–resource relations. Species richness in woody plants and local knowledge about trees show resource continua on the mountain that question the designation of diverse undisturbed forests and degraded human‐utilized lands. Local narratives document spatially dynamic and adaptive relationships between the Kasigau Taita and their plant resources as they moved up and down the mountain in response to environmental conditions and extra local forces. We argue that greater ‘local learning’ about local places is important to hypothesizing and potentially guiding ‘global action’ for biodiversity conservation.

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“…Conservation initiatives at large landscape-scales are often adopted with the implicit goal of achieving sustainability (Medley 2004;Freudenberger 2010). The landscape concept emerged in conservation when the complementary functions of components of landscape mosaics was needed to address conservation goals (Noss 1983).…”

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Integrating landscape ecology into landscape practice in Central African Rainforests

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Context We describe how large landscape-scale conservation initiatives involving local communities, NGOs and resource managers have engaged with landscape scientists with the goal of achieving landscape sustainability. We focus on two landscapes where local people, practitioners and landscape ecologists have co-produced knowledge to design conservation interventions. Objective We seek to understand how landscape ecology can engage with practical landscape management to contribute to managing landscapes sustainably. Methods We focus on two large tropical landscapes: the Sangha Tri-National landscape (Cameroon, Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic) and the Batéké-Léfini Landscape (Gabon and Republic of Congo). We evaluate (1) a participatory method used in the Sangha Tri-National landscape that embeds interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners within a landscape to apply transdisciplinary learning to landscape conservation and (2) a participatory landscape zoning method where interdisciplinary teams of conservation practitioners analyse local land and resource use in the Batéké-Léfini landscape. Results We find that landscape ecology’s tradition of understanding the historical context of resource use can inform landscape conservation practice and natural resource mapping. We also find that the Sangha Group provides an example for landscape ecology on how to integrate local people and their knowledge to better understand and influence landscape processes. Conclusions Place-based engagement as well as the uptake of co-produced knowledge by policy makers are key in enabling sustainable landscapes. Success occurs when researchers, local communities and resource managers engage directly with landscape processes.

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Measuring performance under a landscape approach to biodiversity conservation: the case of USAID/Madagascar

Cited by 7 publications

References 53 publications

The effectiveness and evaluation of conservation planning

The effectiveness and evaluation of conservation planning

Global localism: Recentering the research agenda for biodiversity conservation

Integrating landscape ecology into landscape practice in Central African Rainforests

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