Towards future-oriented conservation: Managing protected areas in an era of climate change

Autor: Laura Becerra, Carina Wyborn, Claudia Munera, Nigel Dudley, Michael Dunlop, Lorrae van Kerkhoff, Javier Castiblanco, Carolina Figueroa, Oscar Guevara, Melissa Abud Hoyos
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Ambio
ISSN: 1654-7209
0044-7447
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-018-1121-0
Popis: 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.
Databáze: OpenAIRE