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Title: Advancing Conservation in a Social Context Supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation


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Advancing Conservation in a Social
ContextSupported by the John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Foundation
  • Thomas O. McShane
  • Chair Coordinator
  • ACSC Planning Group
  • International Institute for Sustainability
  • Arizona State University
  • 13 December 2005

2
Hypotheses to Conservation Challenges
  • Complexity
  • Institutions
  • External Context
  • Use of conceptual frameworks that emphasize
    linearity, certainty, boundedness instead of
    complexity and uncertainty.
  • Trade-offs are not captured. Mechanisms for
    distributing costs and benefits are limited.
  • Local capacity is lacking in many disciplines
    important for conservation.
  • Need to improve applicability and use of
    cutting-edge scholarship.
  • Competing issues (e.g., energy development,
    poverty, terrorism).

3
Advancing Conservation in a Social Context Goal
  • To advance sustainable conservation outcomes
    through diverse, dynamic social processes.

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Advancing Conservation in a Social Context
Audience
  • Those who have improving conservation outcomes
    as one of their primary objectives. Such actors
    would include
  • project and program staff working on field
    projects
  • government environmental agency staff
  • local, national and international conservation
    and development NGOs
  • environmental staff of bilateral and multilateral
    development agencies
  • academia involved in researching conservation
    questions and,
  • donors with significant support for conservation
    activities.

5
Conservation Bazaar
A multidisciplinary mixing zone and market-place
  • Dissemination of new knowledge, understanding and
    capacity.
  • Reflection on practice and development of new
    approaches.
  • Cross-linking and sharing between different
    disciplines.
  • Connecting knowledge in new and different ways.
  • Open testing, scrutiny and experimentation.

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I N T E G R A T I V E R E S E A R C H
Monitoring, collecting and synthesizing existing
and emergent scholarship relevant to conservation
(both social and natural) in ways useful to
conservation actors.
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C O N S E R V A T I O N L O C I
Study and analysis of the institutions,
processes, nodes and connections that transcend
intervention sites. Stimulating conservation
actors to understand themselves and those around
them so as to do things better.
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F I E L D - B A S E D I N T E R V E N T I O N
Study, analysis and testing of existing and new
approaches and methodologies in the field.
Helping conservation actors to understand what
they do and what constrains them.
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Conclusions
A multidisciplinary mixing zone and market-place
where ideas and practices are compared and
swapped for testing.
  • Promoting process creating a space for multiple
    dialogues
  • and stimulating these with research and
    investigation.
  • A learning zone offering tools for thinking
  • not protocols for action.
  • A safe zone where people can bring issues and
    problems
  • without fear or blame
  • A work in progress
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