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Engage the hodgepodge: management factors are essential when prioritizing areas for restoration and conservation action

Knight, Andrew T., Sarkar, Sahotra, Smith, Robert J., Strange, Niels, Wilson, Kerrie A. (2011) Engage the hodgepodge: management factors are essential when prioritizing areas for restoration and conservation action. Diversity and Distributions, 17 (6). pp. 1234-1238. ISSN 1366-9516. (doi:10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00789.x) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:28726)

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Abstract

Restoration and conservation initiatives, such as the eradication of invasive alien plants, should be guided by scientific evidence. Typically, ecological data alone is used to inform the decision-making of these initiatives. Recent advances in the mapping of conservation opportunity include a diverse range of scientifically-identified factors that determine the feasibility and likely effectiveness of conservation initiatives, and include, for example, data on the willingness and capacity of land managers to be effectively involved. Social research techniques such as interview surveys, phenomenology, and social network analysis are important approaches for securing useful human and social data. These approaches are yet to be widely adopted in restoration initiatives, but could be usefully applied to improve the effective implementation of these initiatives. Restoration and conservation planners will deliver spatial prioritisations which provide more effective and cost-efficient decision-making if they include not simply ecological data, but also data on economic, human, management, social and vulnerability factors that determine implementation effectiveness.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00789.x
Uncontrolled keywords: Conservation opportunity; conservation planning; inter-disciplinarity; multiple-criteria analysis; research–implementation gap; social research
Subjects: Q Science > QH Natural history > QH75 Conservation (Biology)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation > DICE (Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology)
Depositing User: Bob Smith
Date Deposited: 14 Feb 2012 13:54 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28726 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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