Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

Waldron, Anthony; Mooers, Arne Ø.; Miller, Daniel C.; Nibbelink, Nathan P.; Redding, David W.; Kuhn, Tyler S.; Roberts, J. Timmons; Gittleman, John L.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1221370110

Cited by 467 publications

(390 citation statements)

References 27 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

383

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…However, some barriers are beyond the control of both groups, such as insufficient resources to make changes to existing management practices (Figure 4a). This is not surprising, given the widely acknowledged shortfall in funding for conservation management (Waldron et al., 2013) is frequently cited as a barrier to implementing more effective management (Addison, Cook, & Bie, 2016; Leverington, Costa, Pavese, Lisle, & Hockings, 2010). …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding managers’ and scientists’ perspectives on opportunities to achieve more evolutionarily enlightened management in conservation

Cook

Sgrò

2018

Evolutionary Applications

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Despite wide acceptance that conservation could benefit from greater attention to principles and processes from evolutionary biology, little attention has been given to quantifying the degree to which relevant evolutionary concepts are being integrated into management practices. There has also been increasing discussion of the potential reasons for a lack of evolutionarily enlightened management, but no attempts to understand the challenges from the perspective of those making management decisions. In this study, we asked conservation managers and scientists for their views on the importance of a range of key evolutionary concepts, the degree to which these concepts are being integrated into management, and what would need to change to support better integration into management practices. We found that while managers recognize the importance of a wide range of evolutionary concepts for conservation outcomes, they acknowledge these concepts are rarely incorporated into management. Managers and scientists were in strong agreement about the range of barriers that need to be overcome, with a lack of knowledge reported as the most important barrier to better integration of evolutionary biology into conservation decision‐making. Although managers tended to be more focused on the need for more training in evolutionary biology, scientists reported greater engagement between managers and evolutionary biologists as most important to achieve the necessary change. Nevertheless, the challenges appear to be multifaceted, and several are outside the control of managers, suggesting solutions will need to be multidimensional.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding managers’ and scientists’ perspectives on opportunities to achieve more evolutionarily enlightened management in conservation

Cook

Sgrò

2018

Evolutionary Applications

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Chile has recently been classified as one of the 40 underfunded countries for biodiversity conservation (Waldron et al 2013). Thus, the implementation of park visitor fees could provide an important alternative for financing MPA running costs.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Financing Marine Protected Areas Through Visitor Fees: Insights from Tourists Willingness to Pay in Chile

Gelcich

Amar

Valdebenito

et al. 2013

AMBIO

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Tourism is a financing mechanism considered by many donor-funded marine conservation initiatives. Here we assess the potential role of visitor entry fees, in generating the necessary revenue to manage a marine protected area (MPA), established through a Global Environmental Facility Grant, in a temperate region of Chile. We assess tourists' willingness to pay (WTP) for an entry fee associated to management and protection of the MPA. Results show 97 % of respondents were willing to pay an entrance fee. WTP predictors included the type of tourist, tourists' sensitivity to crowding, education, and understanding of ecological benefits of the MPA. Nature-based tourists state median WTP values of US$ 4.38 and Sun-seasand tourists US$ 3.77. Overall, entry fees could account for 10-13 % of MPA running costs. In Chile, where funding for conservation runs among the weakest in the world, visitor entry fees are no panacea in the short term and other mechanisms, including direct state/government support, should be considered.

show abstract

“…The literature provides other ideas for integrating other types of data to improve the indicators. For example, evidence of regional cooperation and integrated planning (see McGeoch et al, 2010;Ramsar Convention Secretariat, 2010;Waldron et al, 2013), e.g. regular exchange of data, cooperation on scientific and technical matters, evidence of national biodiversity strategy development , and development of cooperative planning and jurisdictional and institutional coordination within a nation to reflect biodiversity as a cross-cutting issue (see Ramsar Convention Secretariat, 2010) could be used to improve Indicator 6 and in so doing address the AHTEG strengthening attribute.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

International benchmarking: policy responses to biodiversity and climate change in OECD countries

Bark

Crabot

2016

International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Servic

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Responding to global environmental issues like biodiversity loss and climate change challenge national governments and intergovernmental bodies. A conventional response has been to set targets. Yet to achieve targets, governments must implement effective policies. Indicators that track policy implementation could provide information on individual country progress towards targets and for international benchmarking. We take up a recommendation from Convention on Biological Diversity mandated experts to develop a policy indicator(s) for biodiversity. This expert group identified four indicator attributes: identification, establishment, strengthening and assessment. We review biodiversity (and climate change) policies implemented in the period 1952 2012 in 54 nations using an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) database. We find: the number of countries implementing biodiversity policies increased steadily until the end of the 2000s (identification); evidence of continuous innovation in the types of policy instruments implemented (establishment); and evidence of policy revision and shifts in jurisdiction (strengthening). To overcome a lack of data to evaluate policy effectiveness (assessment) we suggest improvements in data collection and the possibility to combine the OECD database with other databases.Keywords: benchmarking, biodiversity, climate change, indicator, environmental policy. Highlights: We utilise an OECD/EEA Database to provide policy-relevant information for CBD.  We implement four proposed operational indicators to track biodiversity/climate change policy.  We propose two further indicators to assess policy strengthening.  We link the operational indicators to international benchmarking goals.

show abstract

Targeting global conservation funding to limit immediate biodiversity declines

Cited by 467 publications

References 27 publications

Understanding managers’ and scientists’ perspectives on opportunities to achieve more evolutionarily enlightened management in conservation

Understanding managers’ and scientists’ perspectives on opportunities to achieve more evolutionarily enlightened management in conservation

Financing Marine Protected Areas Through Visitor Fees: Insights from Tourists Willingness to Pay in Chile

International benchmarking: policy responses to biodiversity and climate change in OECD countries

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About