Effectiveness of 20 Years of Conservation Investments in Protecting Orangutans

Santika, Truly; Sherman, Julie; Voigt, Maria; Ancrenaz, Marc; Wich, Serge A.; Wilson, Kerrie A.; Possingham, Hugh P.; Massingham, Emily; Seaman, Dave J. I.; Ashbury, Alison M.; Azvi, Taufiq Siddiq; Banes, Graham L.; Barrow, Elizabeth J.; Burslem, David F. R. P.; Delgado, Robert A; Erman, Andi; Fredriksson, Gabriella; Goossens, Benoît; Houghton, Max; Indrawan, Tito P.; Jaya, Ricko L.; Kanamori, Tomoko; Knott, Cheryl D.; Leiman, Ashley; Liswanto, Darmawan; Mach, Martin; Marshall, Andrew J.; Martin, Julien G. A.; Midora, Lelyana; Miller, Ashley L.; Milne, Sol; Morgans, Courtney; Nardiyono, Nardi; Perwitasari-Farajallah, Dyah; Priatna, Dolly; Risch, Robert; Riyadi, Galuh Mochammad; Russon, Anne E.; Sembiring, Juhardi; Setiawan, Endro; Sidiq, Mohammad; Simon, Donna; Spehar, Stephanie; Struebig, Matthew J.; Sumardi, Ibrahim; Tjiu, Albertus; Wahyudi, Rizki; Yanuar, Achmad; Meijaard, Erik

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“…Much of the work on the economics of conservation interventions has focussed on assessing the efficiency of different conservation actions to aid in their prioritization (e.g., Joseph et al, 2009; Santika et al, 2022), or has worked to better integrate economic approaches into decision making (Cook et al, 2017; Pannell et al, 2013). There are also now large attempts to compile evidence on the effectiveness of conservation interventions (https://environmentalevidence.org/; Sutherland et al, 2019).…”

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Determining the economic costs and benefits of conservation actions: A decision support framework

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Petrovan

Booth

et al. 2022

Conservat Sci and Prac

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The need for conservation action to be cost-effective is widely accepted, resulting in increased interest and effort to assess effectiveness. Assessing the financial and economic costs of conservation is equally important for assessing cost-effectiveness, yet their measurement and assessment are repeatedly identified as lacking. The healthcare sector, in contrast, has made substantial progress in identifying and including costs in decision-making. Here, we consider what conservation can learn from this experience. We present a three-step framework for identifying and recording the relevant economic costs and benefits of conservation interventions where the user (1) describes the costing context, (2) determines which types of cost and benefit to include, and (3) obtains values for these costs and benefits alongside metadata necessary for others to interpret the data. This framework is designed to help estimate economic costs but can also be used flexibly to record the direct costs of interventions (i.e., financial costs) and calculate financial and economic benefits. Although recording data on economic costs and benefits is deceptively complex, this framework facilitates improved recording, and indicates how collating this data could enhance the assessment of cost-effectiveness across conservation contexts using a range of decision-making tools.

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