Introducing Elinor for monitoring the governance and management of area-based conservation
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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 still many barriers that prevent conservation actors, including those affected by governance and management systems from implementing conservation activities and programs and from gathering and using data on governance and management to inform decision-making across spatial scales and through time. We explored current and past efforts to assess governance and management effectiveness and barriers actors face in using the resulting data and insights to inform conservation decision-making. To help overcome these barriers, we developed Elinor, a free and open-source monitoring tool that builds on the work of Nobel Prize winner Elinor Ostrom to facilitate the gathering, storing, sharing, analyzing, and use of data on environmental governance and management across spatial scales and for areas under different governance and management types. We consider the process of codesigning and piloting Elinor with conservation scientists and practitioners and the main components of the assessment and online data system. We also consider how Elinor complements existing approaches by addressing governance and management in a single assessment at a high level for different types of area-based conservation, providing flexible options for data collection, and integrating a data system with an assessment that can support data use and sharing across different spatial scales, including global monitoring of the Global Biodiversity Framework. Although challenges will continue, the process of developing Elinor and the tool itself offer tangible solutions to barriers that prevent the systematic collection and use of governance and management data. With broader uptake, Elinor can play a valuable role in enabling more effective, inclusive, and durable area-based conservation.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Artikelnummer | e14213 |
Tidsskrift | Conservation Biology |
Vol/bind | 38 |
Udgave nummer | 2 |
Antal sider | 18 |
ISSN | 0888-8892 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2024 |
Bibliografisk note
Funding Information:
We thank M. Andrachuk, Z. Arnold, V. Burgener, L. Glew, M. Medard, H. Schneider, G. Serra, A. Skinner, L. Verveka, S. Wells, members of WWF's Accelerating Coastal Community‐Led Conservation Initiative and the Southwestern Indian Ocean Seascape team, and many more who offered their time, experience, and expertise to developing Elinor. We thank the Margaret A. Cargill Foundation for supporting this work. This is contribution #1650 from the Coastlines and Oceans Division of the Institute of Environment at Florida International University.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 World Wildlife Fund, Inc. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology.
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