Natural resource manager perceptions of agency performance on climate change

Lemieux, Christopher J.; Thompson, Jessica; Dawson, Jackie; Schuster, Rudy M.

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.09.014

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“…Regardless of attitudes to intervention by conservation managers, lack of investment in natural capital is likely to be the most significant impediment to effective implementation of many recovery actions in Australia (Lemieux et al 2013;ACF 2015;DEE 2016;Scheele et al 2018). Australia has been listed in the top 40 underfunded countries for conservation spending (Waldron et al 2013).…”

Section: The Challenge Of Transformational Actionmentioning

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Climate readiness of recovery plans for threatened Australian species

Hoeppner

Hughes

2019

Conservation Biology

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The rapidly changing climate is posing growing threats for all species, but particularly for those already considered threatened. We reviewed 100 recovery plans for Australian terrestrial threatened species (50 fauna and 50 flora plans) written from 1997 to 2017. We recorded the number of plans that acknowledged climate change as a threat and of these how many proposed specific actions to ameliorate the threat. We classified these actions along a continuum from passive or incremental to active or interventionist. Overall, just under 60% of the sampled recovery plans listed climate change as a current or potential threat to the threatened taxa, and the likelihood of this acknowledgment increased over time. A far smaller proportion of the plans, however, identified specific actions associated with ameliorating climate risk (22%) and even fewer (9%) recommended any interventionist action in response to a climate‐change‐associated threat. Our results point to a disconnect between the knowledge generated on climate‐change‐related risk and potential adaptation strategies and the extent to which this knowledge has been incorporated into an important instrument of conservation action.

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Section: The Challenge Of Transformational Actionmentioning

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Climate readiness of recovery plans for threatened Australian species

Hoeppner

Hughes

2019

Conservation Biology

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“…However, all 3 sectors in this survey strongly supported the components we listed and questioned how reliably they are used in practice. Similarly, managers in Colorado and South Dakota (USA) strongly agreed with the importance of 16 attributes of adaptive capacity for climate change and also reported agency usage as poor (Lemieux et al ). This included support for adaptive management and “safe to fail” policies.…”

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“…Budgetary constraints are also frequently cited as a primary barrier to climate change adaptation (Tribbia and Moser , Archie et al , Lemieux et al ), but there is a difference between sectors in the types of funding they need. In this survey, the administrators considered “having adequate resources at the beginning” less important than other sectors, possibly because they plan budgets differently (e.g., rely less on variable, high, and short‐term costs such as field staff or equipment).…”

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Barriers to climate-adaptive management: A survey of wildlife researchers and managers in Wisconsin

Hagell¹,

Ribic

2014

Wildl. Soc. Bull.

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Resource management agencies must be able to integrate current research into their decisionmaking to effectively address climate change impacts. In this study, we investigated the capacity for climateadaptive management by surveying the community of researchers, administrators, and field managers who are responsible for wildlife conservation in the state of Wisconsin, USA. We specifically measured differences in how these sectors perceive climate change risk, communicate, and make decisions to represent barriers in how they transmit and use research. We frame these barriers within the literature on evidence-based and adaptive management and risk psychology, as principles that underlie climate change adaptation. Almost all respondents agreed that the climate is changing (223/224), but 22% of the respondents were unsure whether climate change is negative for wildlife and field managers dominated this group (68%). Field managers also reported using components of adaptive management more frequently than did other sectors, but all three questioned the importance of one specific component: predicting the consequence of management before implementation. When seeking information, researchers preferred communicating via published literature, but managers and administrators reported a preference for in-person communication. Although only 29% of the respondents were currently involved in climate change work, 77% said they would get involved without additional incentives or direction at work. These results confirm a common pattern of barriers between research and management sectors across all scales of decision-making. Overall, results suggest that in-person and problem-based communication that is focused on real decisions and that utilizes social networks are a way to enable resource management communities to effectively confront these barriers. Published 2014. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.

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“…Governing bodies will need to begin to accept that changes are imminent and will need to begin making more rigorous decisions including proper consideration of doing nothing and triage options (Chapter 5). An increase in adaptive capacity is required with many current structures inadequate to do this where barriers such as policy and legislation, resources, research and monitoring, and jurisdictional obstacles exist (Lockwood et al 2012;Lemieux et al 2013;Dutra et al 2015). …”

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Protected area management under climate change: A framework for decision making

Tanner-McAllister¹

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There are over 200,000 protected areas today conserving about 15.4% of the world's terrestrial and inland waters, and around 3.4% of the oceans (Juffe-Bignoli et al. 2014). They provide an effective means of supporting conservation of ecological, cultural and social values. However, they experience a range of threats that park managers must deal with, and now face a new suite of impacts from anthropogenic climate change. Current protected area management approaches may not be adequate to conserve park values as they become more threatened as climate alters because parks were originally developed and managed with the notion of static boundaries with the aim of maintaining current values. Many existing strategies and approaches do not necessarily answer the questions managers need for practical application day to day management as available tools are either lacking in data or very specialised, making them impractical for natural resource managers with limited expertise. There is a need for a methodology and guidelines to assist protected area managers in understanding how their parks and reserves will respond to future climate change so they can make informed decisions and devise possible management strategies.The aim of this research was to investigate approaches to managing climate change impacts on protected areas through understanding and addressing management and planning at the park level.Three key points are addressed to accomplish this, understanding socio-ecological attributes for effective park planning and management, understanding park climate change impacts, and incorporating these into decision making and adaptive management of protected areas. This was applied to four of Queensland's Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage listed protected areas, Springbrook, Lamington, Mount Barney and Main Range National Parks.Most research and planning for climate change is undertaken at a higher strategic level (i.e. regional level and above) with a lack of implementation on-park. Other research and planning effort has been focused on 'off-reserve' strategies to complement and support protected areas on a regional scale. Implementation of socio-ecological values and perceptions in park management are only beginning to occur, which is now recognised as an important factor in adaptive management for protected areas to increase effective management. A climate change adaptation management framework was developed (Chapter 2) to strengthen the relationships between climate change science and the socio-ecological drivers, and on-park management. It sets out the context of the situation to clarify the protected area system's attributes and how they inter-relate. It presents a decision making framework based on a set of strategies aimed at adapting on-park management to The community, protected area neighbours and park managers in the Scenic Rim had a good understanding of climate change and its likely impacts and were concerned about the natural environment. Managers' perceptions were largely aligned wi...

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Natural resource manager perceptions of agency performance on climate change

Cited by 32 publications

References 59 publications

Climate readiness of recovery plans for threatened Australian species

Climate readiness of recovery plans for threatened Australian species

Barriers to climate-adaptive management: A survey of wildlife researchers and managers in Wisconsin

Protected area management under climate change: A framework for decision making

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