Advancing Systematic Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services

Villarreal‐Rosas, Jaramar; Sonter, Laura J.; Runting, Rebecca K.; López-Cubillos, Sofía; Dade, Marie C.; Possingham, Hugh P.; Rhodes, Jonathan R.

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2020.08.016

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“…Just as importantly, specific advice is needed to set targets for the United Kingdom's different priority habitats and species to help ensure their long‐term persistence. Such targets would play a critical role in developing nature recovery networks but they could also play a major part in guiding new and proposed conservation land acquisition programmes (Oetting et al, 2006), local nature recovery strategies, afforestation and agri‐environment schemes (Shwartz et al, 2017; Villarreal‐Rosas et al, 2020), and environmental net gain (Simmonds et al, 2020). In doing so, the systematic conservation planning approach could underpin a range of national policies and local practices (Botts et al, 2019), providing the types of decision support tool that are needed to make informed and effective choices.…”

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Developing a nature recovery network using systematic conservation planning

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Cartwright

Fairbairn

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Conservat Sci and Prac

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Conservation area networks in most countries are fragmented and inadequate. To tackle this in England, government policies are encouraging stakeholders to create local‐level nature recovery networks. Here, we describe work led by a wildlife organization that used the systematic conservation planning approach to identify a nature recovery network for three English counties and select focal areas within it where they will focus their work. The network was based on identifying core zones to maintain current biodiversity and recovery zones for habitat restoration, meeting area‐based targets for 50 priority habitat, landscape, landcover, and ecosystem service types. It included the existing designated sites for conservation, which cover 6.05% of the study site, and identified an additional 11.6% of land as core zones and 18% as recovery zones, reflecting the organization's call for 30% of England to be conserved and connected by 2030. We found that systematic conservation planning worked well in this context, identifying a connected, adequate, representative, and efficient network and producing transparent and repeatable results. The analysis also highlighted the pressing need for government agencies to provide national‐level guidance and datasets for setting targets and including species data in spatial planning, creating a national framework to inform local action.

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Developing a nature recovery network using systematic conservation planning

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Fairbairn

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“…Assessing the role of MPAs as an integral part of EBM requires an understanding of the link between the implementation of MPAs and the provision of ES. The knowledge to be used for such analyses includes scientific expertise but can also be based in practical managerial and local users' knowledge (Villareal-Rosas et al, 2020). This kind of evaluation entails the need to combine complex data, often beyond the level of what can be captured by unified metrics, and across different spatial and temporal scales.…”

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“…The Delphi approach is typically defined as a forecasting process framework that aims to elicit experts' knowledge and reach consensus among them through a series of carefully designed questionnaires (Dalkey and Helmer, 1963;Okoli and Pawlowski, 2004). This approach is well suited to advance our knowledge of the role of MPAs in enhancing and maintaining ESs (Villareal-Rosas et al, 2020). It is characterized by a set of reiterative steps (Figure 2), which in our case include: 1.…”

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Mapping and Evaluating Marine Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services: A Transdisciplinary Delphi Forecasting Process Framework

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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are an important tool for management and conservation and play an increasingly recognised role in societal and human well-being. However, the assessment of MPAs often lacks a simultaneous consideration of ecological and socio-economic outcomes, and this can lead to misconceptions on the effectiveness of MPAs. In this perspective, we present a transdisciplinary approach based on the Delphi method for mapping and evaluating Marine Protected Areas for their ability to protect biodiversity while providing Ecosystem Services (ES) and related human well-being benefits – i.e., the ecosystem outputs from which people benefit. We highlight the need to include the human dimensions of marine protection in such assessments, given that the effectiveness of MPAs over time is conditional on the social, cultural and institutional contexts in which MPAs evolve. Our approach supports Ecosystem-Based Management and highlights the importance of MPAs in achieving restoration, conservation, and sustainable development objectives in relation to EU Directives such as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSPD), and the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).

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“…Just as importantly, specific advice is needed to set targets for the UK's different priority habitats and species to help ensure their long-term persistence. Such targets would play a critical role in developing Nature Recovery Networks but they could also play a major part in guiding new and proposed conservation land acquisition programmes (Oetting et al 2006), local nature recovery strategies, afforestation and agri-environment schemes (Shwartz et al 2017;Villarreal-Rosas et al 2020), and environmental net gain (Simmonds et al 2020). In doing so, the systematic conservation planning approach could underpin a range of national policies and local practices (Botts et al 2019), providing the types of decision support tool we need to make informed and effective choices.…”

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Developing a Nature Recovery Network using systematic conservation planning

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Fairbairn³

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Conservation area networks in most countries are fragmented and inadequate. To tackle this in England, government policies are encouraging stakeholders to create local-level Nature Recovery Networks. Here we describe work led by a wildlife organisation that used the systematic conservation planning approach to identify a Nature Recovery Network for three English counties and select focal areas within it where they will focus their work. The network was based on identifying core zones to maintain current biodiversity and recovery zones for habitat restoration, meeting area-based targets for 50 priority habitat, landscape, landcover and ecosystem service types. It included the existing designated sites for conservation, which cover 6.05% of the study site, and identified an additional 11.6% of land as core zones and 18% as recovery zones, reflecting the organisation’s broad objective of conserving and connecting 30% of England by 2030. We found that systematic conservation planning worked well in this context, identifying a connected, adequate, representative and efficient network and producing transparent and repeatable results. The analysis also highlighted the pressing need for government agencies to provide national-level guidance and datasets for setting targets and including species data in spatial planning, creating a national framework to inform local action.

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Advancing Systematic Conservation Planning for Ecosystem Services

Cited by 64 publications

References 54 publications

Developing a nature recovery network using systematic conservation planning

Developing a nature recovery network using systematic conservation planning

Mapping and Evaluating Marine Protected Areas and Ecosystem Services: A Transdisciplinary Delphi Forecasting Process Framework

Developing a Nature Recovery Network using systematic conservation planning

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