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View article: Investing smarter and deeper to advance equity in high-stakes coastal locations
Investing smarter and deeper to advance equity in high-stakes coastal locations Open
The billions invested annually in marine climate adaptation, development, and conservation projects in the Global South can address, or reinforce, pre-existing contextual inequities 1. Concurrently, contextual inequities can also undermine…
View article: Enabling participatory monitoring and evaluation: Insights for conservation practitioners and organizations
Enabling participatory monitoring and evaluation: Insights for conservation practitioners and organizations Open
Mounting environmental crises and the persistent factors driving them require a reconsideration of conservation approaches. Participatory monitoring and evaluation (PME) is increasingly valued as a way for Indigenous peoples and local comm…
View article: Ocean equity: from assessment to action to improve social equity in ocean governance
Ocean equity: from assessment to action to improve social equity in ocean governance Open
Inequity is ubiquitous in the ocean, and social equity receives insufficient attention in ocean governance and management efforts. Thus, we assert that proponents of sustainability must center social equity in future ocean governance, to a…
View article: The Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool: Meeting local practitioner needs and tracking progress toward global targets
The Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool: Meeting local practitioner needs and tracking progress toward global targets Open
View article: Advancing ocean equity at the nexus of development, climate and conservation policy
Advancing ocean equity at the nexus of development, climate and conservation policy Open
View article: Individual and community empowerment improve resource users’ perceptions of community-based conservation effectiveness in Kenya and Tanzania
Individual and community empowerment improve resource users’ perceptions of community-based conservation effectiveness in Kenya and Tanzania Open
Community-based conservation has been increasingly recognized as critical to achieve both conservation and socio-economic development goals worldwide. However, the long-term sustainability of community-based conservation programs is depend…
View article: Introducing Elinor for monitoring the governance and management of area‐based conservation
Introducing Elinor for monitoring the governance and management of area‐based conservation Open
Monitoring the governance and management effectiveness of area‐based conservation has long been recognized as an important foundation for achieving national and global biodiversity goals and enabling adaptive management. However, there are…
View article: Accelerating evidence-informed decision-making in conservation implementing agencies through effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning
Accelerating evidence-informed decision-making in conservation implementing agencies through effective monitoring, evaluation, and learning Open
Evidence-informed decision-making can help catalyze the development and implementation of effective conservation actions. Yet despite decades of research on evidence-informed conservation, its realization within conservation implementing a…
View article: What's on the horizon for community-based conservation? Emerging threats and opportunities
What's on the horizon for community-based conservation? Emerging threats and opportunities Open
View article: Diversity in marine protected area regulations: Protection approaches for locally appropriate marine management
Diversity in marine protected area regulations: Protection approaches for locally appropriate marine management Open
Globally, marine protected area (MPA) objectives have increasingly shifted from a primary focus on maintaining ecosystems through prohibiting extractive activities, to more equitable approaches that address the needs of both people and nat…
View article: Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities
Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities Open
View article: The Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool: Meeting Local Practitioner Needs and Tracking Progress Towards Global Targets
The Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool: Meeting Local Practitioner Needs and Tracking Progress Towards Global Targets Open
View article: Blue justice: A review of emerging scholarship and resistance movements
Blue justice: A review of emerging scholarship and resistance movements Open
The term “blue justice” was coined in 2018 during the 3rd World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress. Since then, academic engagement with the concept has grown rapidly. This article reviews 5 years of blue justice scholarship and synthesizes so…
View article: Studying the complexities of success in collaborative protected areas: A multi-stakeholder dialogue on the case of octopus closures and process-focused research
Studying the complexities of success in collaborative protected areas: A multi-stakeholder dialogue on the case of octopus closures and process-focused research Open
The OctoPINTS research project has over the last three years studied and explored stakeholders and rightsholders experiences and perceptions around the intervention of periodic reef closures of octopuses (or in some cases for all species).…
View article: Enabling conditions for effective marine spatial planning
Enabling conditions for effective marine spatial planning Open
As marine spatial planning (MSP) continues to gain global prominence as an approach to ocean governance, planners and other stakeholders are eager to evaluate its social and ecological outcomes and to better understand whether plans are ac…
View article: Participation, not penalties: Community involvement and equitable governance contribute to more effective multiuse protected areas
Participation, not penalties: Community involvement and equitable governance contribute to more effective multiuse protected areas Open
Accelerating ecosystem degradation has spurred proposals to vastly expand the extent of protected areas (PAs), potentially affecting the livelihoods and well-being of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) worldwide. The benefits…
View article: Exploring the Potential of Theory-Based Evaluation to Strengthen Marine Spatial Planning Practice
Exploring the Potential of Theory-Based Evaluation to Strengthen Marine Spatial Planning Practice Open
View article: Limited Progress in Improving Gender and Geographic Representation in Coral Reef Science
Limited Progress in Improving Gender and Geographic Representation in Coral Reef Science Open
Despite increasing recognition of the need for more diverse and equitable representation in the sciences, it is unclear whether measurable progress has been made. Here, we examine trends in authorship in coral reef science from 1,677 artic…
View article: Marine protected and conserved areas in the time of COVID
Marine protected and conserved areas in the time of COVID Open
The intersection of potential global targets and commitments for ocean conservation with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has resulted in an opportunity to rethink the future of marine area-based conservation tools, particularly for marine pr…
View article: A theory‐based framework for understanding the establishment, persistence, and diffusion of community‐based conservation
A theory‐based framework for understanding the establishment, persistence, and diffusion of community‐based conservation Open
Over decades, biodiversity conservation researchers and practitioners have developed theories and conceptual frameworks to inform the planning, implementation, and evaluation of community‐based conservation (CBC). While a diversity of mech…
View article: Systems thinking for planning and evaluating conservation interventions
Systems thinking for planning and evaluating conservation interventions Open
As conservation shifts to meet the challenges of our globalized world, approaches for planning and evaluating interventions must evolve to account for the increasing complexity of conservation problems and the dynamic, multiscalar relation…
View article: The Art of Systems Change: Eight guiding principles for a green and fair future
The Art of Systems Change: Eight guiding principles for a green and fair future Open
How we do our work must be in service of the change we seek. The Art of Systems Change offers a frame for understanding systems, and a set of actionable principles that can help readers embrace complexity. Welcome to the systems journey.
View article: The Montérégie Connection: Understanding How Ecosystems Can Provide Resilience to the Risk of Ecosystem Service Change
The Montérégie Connection: Understanding How Ecosystems Can Provide Resilience to the Risk of Ecosystem Service Change Open
View article: Photovoice for mobilizing insights on human well-being in complex social-ecological systems: case studies from Kenya and South Africa
Photovoice for mobilizing insights on human well-being in complex social-ecological systems: case studies from Kenya and South Africa Open
The value of diverse perspectives in social-ecological systems research and transdisciplinarity is well recognized. Human well-being and how it is derived from dynamic ecosystems is one area where local knowledge and perspectives are criti…