Measuring the benefits of environmental stewardship in rural landscapes

Hajkowicz, Stefan; Collins, Kerry

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.06.008

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“…Some of these newer currencies are already well developed and established in law, such as the habitat hectares index used in the Bushbroker program in Victoria, Australia (Parkes et al ) and the environmental benefits index applied in Western Australia (Hajkowicz et al ). There are also a growing number of proposals in the literature, including integration of data on habitat area with data on abundance of key indicator species (e.g., biodiversity change index [Normander et al ]); modeling frameworks to estimate trade‐offs between changes in habitat area and population size (Tanentzap et al ); intervention‐specific metrics (e.g., plantation biodiversity benefits score for restoration plantings [Cawsey & Freudenberger ]); spatially nested metrics to assess changes in site‐, landscape‐ and regional‐level biodiversity values (e.g., Gibbons et al ); economic habitat‐value metrics that measure incremental progress toward landscape‐scale conservation targets (Dymond et al ); and multidimensional metrics that incorporate stakeholder preferences and management indicators together with information on different components of biodiversity (e.g., Hajkowicz & Collins ).…”

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Biodiversity Offsets and the Challenge of Achieving No Net Loss

Gardner

Hase

Brownlie

et al. 2013

Conservation Biology

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Businesses, governments, and financial institutions are increasingly adopting a policy of no net loss of biodiversity for development activities. The goal of no net loss is intended to help relieve tension between conservation and development by enabling economic gains to be achieved without concomitant biodiversity losses. biodiversity offsets represent a necessary component of a much broader mitigation strategy for achieving no net loss following prior application of avoidance, minimization, and remediation measures. However, doubts have been raised about the appropriate use of biodiversity offsets. We examined what no net loss means as a desirable conservation outcome and reviewed the conditions that determine whether, and under what circumstances, biodiversity offsets can help achieve such a goal. We propose a conceptual framework to substitute the often ad hoc approaches evident in many biodiversity offset initiatives. The relevance of biodiversity offsets to no net loss rests on 2 fundamental premises. First, offsets are rarely adequate for achieving no net loss of biodiversity alone. Second, some development effects may be too difficult or risky, or even impossible, to offset. To help to deliver no net loss through biodiversity offsets, biodiversity gains must be comparable to losses, be in addition to conservation gains that may have occurred in absence of the offset, and be lasting and protected from risk of failure. Adherence to these conditions requires consideration of the wider landscape context of development and offset activities, timing of offset delivery, measurement of biodiversity, accounting procedures and rule sets used to calculate biodiversity losses and gains and guide offset design, and approaches to managing risk. Adoption of this framework will strengthen the potential for offsets to provide an ecologically defensible mechanism that can help reconcile conservation and development. Balances de Biodiversidad y el Reto de No Obtener Pérdida Neta.

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Biodiversity Offsets and the Challenge of Achieving No Net Loss

Gardner

Hase

Brownlie

et al. 2013

Conservation Biology

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“…To restore native vegetation in rural areas, farmers can adopt voluntary mechanisms, including environmental stewardship programmes and carbon credit schemes. Environmental stewardship programmes offer economic incentives to farmers in order to retain and/or improve the cultural and/or natural values in their farms (Hajkowicz and Collins, 2009). Recently, an emission-trading scheme has been proposed to mitigate carbon emissions in Australia (Garnaut, 2008;Hunt, 2008).…”

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An agent-based approach to explore the effect of voluntary mechanisms on land use change: A case in rural Queensland, Australia

Valbuena

Bregt

McAlpine

et al. 2010

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Progressively multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) identified the participation of social actors as a fundamental element [20,[34][35][36][37]. These methodologies have been developed as tools to assist with natural resource management decisions within the framework of sustainability principles [38][39][40][41][42].…”

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Individual and Social Preferences in Participatory Multi-Criteria Evaluation

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Decisions on environmental issues are complex and multidimensional as they represent multiple interests and values. Nevertheless, the ability of participatory multi-criteria methodologies to deal with this kind of problem is widely acknowledged. Traditionally, multi-criteria methods have focused more on technical issues than on the representation of participants' preferences. In participatory processes there are questions such as who establishes the mechanisms of participation, in what terms these processes are developed and who is going to participate, which are determining factors that have not been sufficiently studied in multi-criteria analysis. This paper, in order to shed light on this gap, aims to compare the creation of social preferences under two different participatory approaches. For this purpose, two different participatory approaches are compared. On the one hand, applying the social multi-criteria evaluation (SMCE) method, a deliberative process is developed following the principles of deliberative democracy. On the other hand, an aggregation process of individual preferences has been developed based on information collected through surveys. Both approaches have advantages as well as constraints. Our main finding is that the information obtained through the different participatory methods is different and complementary. Therefore, we can state that both participatory methods can be enriching assessment processes.

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Measuring the benefits of environmental stewardship in rural landscapes

Cited by 14 publications

References 48 publications

Biodiversity Offsets and the Challenge of Achieving No Net Loss

Biodiversity Offsets and the Challenge of Achieving No Net Loss

An agent-based approach to explore the effect of voluntary mechanisms on land use change: A case in rural Queensland, Australia

Individual and Social Preferences in Participatory Multi-Criteria Evaluation

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