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Towards future-oriented conservation: Managing protected areas in an era of climate change
- Source :
- Ambio
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018.
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Abstract
- Management of protected areas must adapt to climate impacts, and prepare for ongoing ecological transformation. Future-Proofing Conservation is a dialogue-based, multi-stakeholder learning process that supports conservation managers to consider the implications of climate change for governance and management. It takes participants through a series of conceptual transitions to identify new management options that are robust to a range of possible biophysical futures, and steps that they can take now to prepare for ecological transformation. We outline the Future-Proofing Conservation process, and demonstrate its application in a pilot programme in Colombia. This process can be applied and adapted to a wide range of climate adaptation contexts, to support practitioners in developing positive ways forward for management and decision-making. By acknowledging scientific uncertainty, considering social values, and rethinking the rules that shape conservation governance, participants can identify new strategies towards “future-oriented conservation” over the long term.
- Subjects :
- Conservation of Natural Resources
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Process (engineering)
Climate Change
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Ecology (disciplines)
Decision Making
Geography, Planning and Development
Climate change
Ecological transformation
Colombia
010501 environmental sciences
Social value orientations
Science–policy interface
01 natural sciences
Climate adaptation
Environmental Chemistry
Adaptation (computer science)
Environmental planning
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Ecology
Corporate governance
Futures thinking
General Medicine
Uncertainty
Conservation governance
Business
Futures contract
Research Article
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Details
- ISSN :
- 16547209 and 00447447
- Volume :
- 48
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Ambio
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....6ead2a081ce939d120989b4859883023