On the coattails of climate? Opportunities and threats of a warming Earth for biodiversity conservation

Hagerman, Shannon; Witter, Rebecca; Corson, Catherine; Suarez, Daniel; Maclin, Edward M.; Bourque, Maggie; Campbell, Lisa M.

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.05.006

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“…Biological Diversity (Hagerman et al 2012), an effort that was arguably successful, given its consistency with prevailing institutional commitments (to protected areas) and norms (i.e., an aversion to intervention).…”

Section: A Convincing Mandate For Adaptation Planningmentioning

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“…The second piece of evidence derives from systematic observations made at recent international forums for conservation governance (e.g., The World Conservation Congress of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the Convention on Biological Diversity). There, as in other conservation forums, tensions surrounding expectations of success by conventional actions (such as protected areas) are occasionally voiced within technically focused sessions, but typically are quickly dismissed in favor of bolstering support for these same actions (Hagerman et al 2012).…”

Section: Taboo Thinking: Expert Agreement Vs Preferencementioning

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Agreed but not preferred: expert views on taboo options for biodiversity conservation, given climate change

Hagerman

Satterfield

2014

Ecological Applications

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Recent research indicates increasing openness among conservation experts toward a set of previously controversial proposals for biodiversity protection. These include actions such as assisted migration, and the application of climate-change-informed triage principles for decision-making (e.g., forgoing attention to target species deemed no longer viable). Little is known however, about the levels of expert agreement across different conservation adaptation actions, or the preferences that may come to shape policy recommendations. In this paper, we report findings from a web-based survey of biodiversity experts that assessed: (1) perceived risks of climate change (and other drivers) to biodiversity, (2) relative importance of different conservation goals, (3) levels of agreement/disagreement with the potential necessity of unconventional-taboo actions and approaches including affective evaluations of these, (4) preferences regarding the most important adaptation action for biodiversity, and (5) perceived barriers and strategic considerations regarding implementing adaptation initiatives. We found widespread agreement with a set of previously contentious approaches and actions, including the need for frameworks for prioritization and decision-making that take expected losses and emerging novel ecosystems into consideration. Simultaneously, this survey found enduring preferences for conventional actions (such as protected areas) as the most important policy action, and negative affective responses toward more interventionist proposals. We argue that expert views are converging on agreement across a set of taboo components in ways that differ from earlier published positions, and that these views are tempered by preferences for existing conventional actions and discomfort toward interventionist options. We discuss these findings in the context of anticipating some of the likely contours of future conservation debates. Lastly, we underscore the critical need for interdisciplinary, comparative, place-based adaptation research.

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Section: A Convincing Mandate For Adaptation Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Taboo Thinking: Expert Agreement Vs Preferencementioning

confidence: 99%

Agreed but not preferred: expert views on taboo options for biodiversity conservation, given climate change

Hagerman

Satterfield

2014

Ecological Applications

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“…Previous research on ''carbon logics'' in biodiversity has traced how various actors see financing opportunities for framing conservation actions through carbon and carbon markets, while others see the logic of making decisions based upon carbon analyses as a threat to effective conservation. 29 This illustrates the risk of ''carbon logics'' similarly being imposed upon adaptation, which like biodiversity is underfunded relative to the challenge: carbon removal may be seen as some as a way to access more financing opportunities, while others may identify the influence of carbon analyses in decision-making as a threat to effective adaptation.…”

Section: Assessing Carbon Removal and Adaptation Togethermentioning

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Adaptation and Carbon Removal

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“…Including climate change adaptation in ecosystem management is a way to complement, enhance, and broaden management objectives (Hagerman et al, 2012). Climate change adaptation is being embraced more and more in urban forest management based on the notion of planting more of the right kind of tree (e.g.…”

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Adopting public values and climate change adaptation strategies in urban forest management: A review and analysis of the relevant literature

Barona

2015

Journal of Environmental Management

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On the coattails of climate? Opportunities and threats of a warming Earth for biodiversity conservation

Cited by 42 publications

References 44 publications

Agreed but not preferred: expert views on taboo options for biodiversity conservation, given climate change

Agreed but not preferred: expert views on taboo options for biodiversity conservation, given climate change

Adaptation and Carbon Removal

Adopting public values and climate change adaptation strategies in urban forest management: A review and analysis of the relevant literature

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