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ECO3B: Managing Conservation > W9: L32 = Spatial Ecology [Open Standards] (Dr. Jolene) > Flashcards

W9: L32 = Spatial Ecology [Open Standards] (Dr. Jolene) Flashcards

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What are the 2 Types of conservation planning that we’re focusing on?

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  • Systematic Conservation Planning.
  • Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.
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Mention of some of the Conservation measures Partnerships? (2)

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  • WWF (World Wide Fund).
  • IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature).
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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation?

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= a structured, adaptive framework that guides conservation projects through planning, implementation, monitoring, and adjustment to achieve effective, evidence-based outcomes.

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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation broken down? (4)

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  • Open.
  • Standards.
  • Practice.
  • Conservation.
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Open?

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= conservation standards are open-source and are to be shared, used and adapted as teams see fit for their context.

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Standards?

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= conservation standards describe ideal practices for doing good conservation work.

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Practice?

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= conservation standards focus on how we do conservation.

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Conservation?

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= conservation standards were developed for biodiversity & resource conservation efforts, but now consider the connections between nature & humans.

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Steps of the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation? (5)

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  • Conceptualize.
  • Plan actions & monitoring.
  • Implement actions & monitoring.
  • Analyze, use, adapt.
  • Capture & share learning.
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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation: Step 1 attributes? (4)

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  • Define planning purpose & project team.
  • Define scope, vision, targets.
  • Identify critical threats.
  • Analyze the conservation situation.
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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation: Step 2 attributes? (3)

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  • Develop goals, strategies, assumptions & objectives.
  • Develop monitoring plan.
  • Develop operational plan.
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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation: Step 3 attributes? (3)

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  • Develop work plan & timeline.
  • Develop & refine budget.
  • Implement plans.
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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation: Step 4 attributes? (3)

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  • Prepare data for analysis.
  • Analyze results.
  • Adapt strategic plan.
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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation: Step 5 attributes? (3)

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  • Document learning.
  • Share learning.
  • Create learning environment.
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Which steps did we focus on?

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Step 1 & Step 2.

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Project scope?

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= the broad geographic & thematic boundaries of a conservation project that outlines the area, species or ecosystem that a project aims to impact.

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Types of Project scope? (2)

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  • Geographic scope.
  • Thematic scope.
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Geographic scope?

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= focuses on the biodiversity of a specific place (project area).

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Thematic scope?

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= focuses on a specific conservation target (species), threat or strategy regardless of geographic boundary.

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Egs of Project scopes? (2)

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  • Global Tiger initiative.
  • Painted Dog Conservation Organisation.
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Project vision statement?

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= a description of the desired state/ultimate condition that a project is working to achieve.

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Criteria of a good vision statement? (3)

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  • Relatively general.
  • Visionary.
  • Brief.
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Relatively general?

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= broadly defined to encompass all project activities.

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Visionary?

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= inspirational in outlining the desired change in the state of the targets toward which the project is working.

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Brief?

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= simple & succinct so that all project participants can remember it.

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Conservation targets?

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= the species or ecosystems that a project has chosen to concentrate on.

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Conservation targets attributes? (3)

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  • Should represent the whole spectrum of biodiversity at your site.
  • Their conservation will ensure the conservation of all native species within a functional landscape.
  • Doesn’t restore or sustain pristine conditions in the landscape rather ecologically “functional” ones.
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Viability assessment of a conservation target?

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= the measure to which the target is resistant (to change in its structure & composition in the face of external stresses) & resilient (able to recover upon experiencing occasional severe stress).

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What questions do Viability assessments help teams answer? (4)

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  • What key characteristics define a healthy target?
  • How do we physically measure those characteristics (indicators)?
  • How is our target doing now?
  • What do we want to achieve? (ultimate, measurable goals).
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Viability assessment steps? (5)

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  • Define key characteristics (KEAs) of your target.
  • Identify indicator(s) for each KEA.
  • Describe what would constitute “good” status.
  • Define the current status & desired future status for your target.
  • Complete the rating scale for each indicator, using the categories of Very good, Good, Fair or Poor.
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Viability assessment Step 1 categories to consider? (3)

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  • Size.
  • Condition.
  • Landscape context.
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Category attributes for the Viability assessment? (2)

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  • Population-related when dealing with thematic/species.
  • State-related when dealing with geographic/area.
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Size attributes? (2)

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  • Geographic extent (ecosystem/habitat).
  • Abundance & demographics of the population/community (species).
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Condition attributes? (3)

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  • Composition.
  • Structure.
  • Biotic interactions.
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Landscape context attributes? (2)

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  • Landscape-scale ecological processes.
  • Connectivity.
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Viability assessment Step 2?

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Indicator(s) are how you would measure the KEA.

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Indicator ratings scale? (4)

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  • Very Good.
  • Good.
  • Fair.
  • Poor.
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Very good?

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= little to no intervention for maintenance.

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Good?

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= some intervention required for maintenance.

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Fair?

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= requires human intervention.

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Poor?

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= restoration is increasingly difficult.

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Tips for selecting KEAs? (3)

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  • Characteristics that, if degraded, would seriously jeopardize the target’s ability to persist for 100+ years.
  • Likely to be affected by human activities.
  • Pick few really key characteristics.
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Tips for selecting Indicators? (3)

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Look for indicators that:

  • Strongly relate to the status of the KEA.
  • Are efficient & affordable to measure.
  • Can reasonably define what is “Good”.
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Traits of desirable indicators? (2)

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  • Might provide an early warning to serious stresses.
  • Might assess 2 or more KEAs.
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Direct threat?

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= human-induced action/event that will directly degrade 1 or more conservation target.

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Egs of Direct threats? (3)

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  • Unsustainable logging.
  • Unsustainable harvest (of meat, tusks, etc).
  • Residential development.
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Criteria at which threats are scored? (3)

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  • Scope/Extent.
  • Severity.
  • Irreversibility.
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Stress?

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= biophysical impact of that action on the target (an impaired KEA of a target).

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Egs of Stresses? (2)

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  • Habitat fragmentation.
  • High mortality.
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Scope/Extent?

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= the proportion of the target expected to be affected by the threat within 10 years.

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Severity?

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= level of damage to the target expected if current trends continue.

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Irreversibility?

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= degree to which the target can be restored if the threat is removed.

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Two types of threats?

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  • Direct threats.
  • Indirect threats.
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Indirect threat is AKA?

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Contributing factor.

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Indirect threat?

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= an economic, cultural, societal, or institutional factor that allows direct threats to occur.

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Egs of Indirect threats? (3)

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  • Need for income.
  • Lack of knowledge.
  • Low capacity.
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Situation analysis?

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= a process that helps your project team create a common understanding of the project’s context, including the biological, environmental, social, economic, political & institutional systems that affect the conservation targets you want to conserve.

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Situation analysis attribute?

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Can be an in-depth, formal or informal assessment/description based on the available knowledge of key informants.

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Conceptual model?

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= diagram that portrays what is happening within a project.

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Conceptual model attributes? (2)

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  • Tool for documenting a situation analysis.
  • Shows the major forces (threats & opportunities) that influence biodiversity & lays out the causal relationships among those forces.
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Attributes of a Good Conceptual Model? (6)

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  • Presents a picture of your situation.
  • Shows assumed relationships between factors.
  • Shows major direct threats, indirect threats & opportunities.
  • Presents only relevant factors.
  • Based on sound data & information.
  • Results from a team effort.
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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation Step 2: Strategies?

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= a group of actions with a common focus that work together to reduce threats, capitalise on opportunities & restore natural systems.

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Strategy attributes? (3)

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  • Designed to achieve specific objectives & goals.
  • Includes 1 or more activities.
  • Generally developed to influence key intervention points in your conceptual model.
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Criteria of a good strategy? (4)

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  • Linked to critical factors.
  • Focused.
  • Feasible.
  • Appropriate.
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Linked to critical factors?

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= directly affects one or more critical factors in your conceptual model.

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Focused?

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= outlines specific courses of action that need to be carried out.

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Feasible?

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= accomplishable in light of the project’s resources & contraints.

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Appropriate?

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= acceptable to & fitting within project-specific cultural, social & biological norms.

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Types of strategies? (2)

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  • Threat abatement strategy.
  • Restoration strategy.
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Threat abatement strategy?

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= focuses on mitigating factors (threats) that are actively degrading the species or ecosystem.

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Restoration strategy?

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= focuses on rehabilitating already degraded species/ecosystems.

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Brainstorming & Prioritising Strategies [Steps/Process]? (6)

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  • Select a direct threat & target(s) & review contributing factors.
  • Select key intervention points.
  • Brainstorm potential strategies to influence key intervention points.
  • Rate strategies.
  • Select final strategies.
  • Apply criteria for strategies.
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Questions to keep in mind? (5)

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  • What is causing this threat to happen?
  • What social, political, economic, cultural & institutional factors are contributing to the threat?
  • Who is involved - directly or indirectly?
  • Why are they doing it?
  • Are there opportunities - factors that could contribute to reducing the threat?
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Advice for strategy brainstorming? (3)

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  • Consider the scale at which you are working & whether your strategies should be broader or more specific.
  • Don’t limit yourself to typical strategies, think broadly.
  • Consider what your team will do vs what other organisations/partners will do.
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Potential impact?

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= degree to which the strategy, if implemented, will lead to desired changes in the situation at your project site.

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Strategy ratings? (2)

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  • Potential impact.
  • Feasibility.
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Potential impact scales? (4)

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  • Very high.
  • High.
  • Medium.
  • Low.
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Potential impact: Very high?

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= strategy is very likely to completely mitigate a threat/restore a target.

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Potential impact: High?

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= strategy is likely to help mitigate a threat/restore a target.

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Potential impact: Medium?

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= strategy could possibly help mitigate a threat/restore a target.

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Potential impact: Low?

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= strategy will probably not contribute to meaningful threat mitigation or target restoration.

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Feasibility?

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= degree to which your project team could implement the strategy within likely time, financial, staffing, ethical & other constraints.

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Feasibility scales? (4)

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  • Very high.
  • High.
  • Medium.
  • Low.
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Feasibility: Very high?

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= strategy is ethically, technically & financially feasible.

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Feasibility: High?

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= strategy is ethically & technically feasible, but may require some additional financial resources.

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Feasibility: Medium?

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= strategy is ethically feasible, but either technically or financially difficult without substantial additional resources.

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Feasibility: Low?

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= strategy is not ethically, technically or financially feasible.

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Results chain?

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= a tool for documenting a team’s “theory of change”, describing how a strategy will lead to conservation success.

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Results chain attributes? (3)

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  • Defines how a project team thinks a strategy will contribute to reducing a threat or restoring a target.
  • Focuses on the achievement of results, not the execution of activities.
  • Composed of assumptions that can be tested.
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Basic components of a Results chain? (4)

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  • Strategy.
  • Result (objective 1).
  • Result (objective 2) [Direct threat].
  • Impact on target (goal).
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Result (objective 1)?

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= contributing factor addressed/opportunity achieved.

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Result (objective 2) [Direct threat]?

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= direct threat objective achieved.

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Impact on target (goal)?

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= impact on actions achieved/viability mantained.

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A good results chain attributes? (5)

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  • Results oriented.
  • Connected in a “causal” manner.
  • Demonstrates change.
  • Relatively complete.
  • Simple.
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Results oriented?

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= boxes contain desired results & not activities.

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Connected in a “causal” manner?

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= there are clearer connections of “if…then” between each pair of successive boxes.

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Demonstrates change?

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= each box describes how you hope the relevant factor will change (eg, improve, increase, decrease).

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Relatively complete?

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= there are sufficient boxes to construct logical connections, but not so much that the chain becomes overly complex.

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Simple?

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= there is only one result per box.

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Thing to NOTE about Results chains?

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Results chains focus on the ACHIEVEMENT of results, NOT the implementation of activities.

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Key points of Results chain? (5)

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  • Results oriented, but activities can help the flow.
  • The “if-then” logic must stand up.
  • Make your assumptions & the actor’s incentives explicit.
  • Alternative pathways are okay.
  • Peer review is critical.
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Rundown of pattern & process? (6)

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  • Pattern = describing what you see.
  • Process = understanding what has caused that pattern (what you see).
  • In order to understand process, you need to look at the bigger picture (larger scale) AND the details (smaller scale).
  • Because landscape/spacial ecology is immensely integrated, it’s important to consider all things that might contribute to the patterns we observe on the landscape.
  • Look at both spatial & temporal patterns.
  • Egs of processes = fire, photosynthesis, herbivory, etc.

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