The challenge of monitoring biodiversity in payment for environmental service interventions

Sommerville, Matt; Milner‐Gulland, E. J.; Jones, Julia P. G.

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.07.036

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“…The main message that emerged from our study, which has been ignored by earlier literature on participatory monitoring, is to emphasize the motivation to monitor and not just focus on mechanisms that reduce costs of conservation. Monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem services is a top priority in today's world and participatory monitoring methods are vital in accomplishing monitoring, especially in an uncertain and dynamic situation (Jones 2011, Sommerville et al 2011, Williams et al 2012 Responses to this article can be read online at: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/issues/responses. php/6665…”

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Tackling the motivation to monitor: success and sustainability of a participatory monitoring program

Singh¹,

Danell²,

Edenius³

et al. 2014

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ABSTRACT. Monitoring of species and their ecosystem attributes is a fundamental requirement in applied ecology and conservation. However, landscape scale monitoring requires an immense effort and commitment, especially when species have a wide distribution or are migratory in nature. Participatory monitoring, whereby local communities are engaged, is increasingly being proposed to address landscape scale monitoring. Its implementation is met with many challenges related to finances, motivation of the local people, lack of trained manpower, and nondirect legal use of the species in question. It is of interest to determine what makes a participatory monitoring program interesting for locals to ensure their long term engagement. Using the unique 26-year program of hunters' observations of moose (Alces alces) in Sweden as a case study, we present the evolution of this highly successful participatory monitoring program and show that tackling the motivation to monitor, early involvement of local NGOs, social activities revolving around use of the resource, the biology and economic value of the species, and technical and practical aspects related to the monitoring, together create a successful participatory monitoring program. When users benefit directly from the resource, participate in conservation/ management decision making, socialize with other participants, and get rewards for their commitment and effective monitoring, participatory monitoring schemes can then become rewarding and sustainable.

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Tackling the motivation to monitor: success and sustainability of a participatory monitoring program

Singh¹,

Danell²,

Edenius³

et al. 2014

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“…Thus livelihood/ distraction interventions implemented by protected area managers must be accompanied by robust resource management rules, and these rules must be effectively enforced. Oblique aerial photography provides a comparatively cheap, rapid and effective tool to facilitate rule enforcement (although it is not currently used for this purpose outside MNP-managed sites), and could also be used to evaluate the performance of management in competitive or contractual community-management initiatives such as management transfers or conservation contracts/direct conservation payments (Sommerville et al, 2010;Sommerville et al, 2011).…”

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Oblique aerial photography: a novel tool for the monitoring and participatory management of protected areas

Gardner¹,

Vincke²,

Rafanomezantsoa³

et al. 2015

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“…These criteria were judged to be the most important (based on their emphasis in the sustainability monitoring literature) by Moller and MacLeod (2013) from their review of international and New Zealand sustainability assessment initiatives in agriculture and ecology (Lee et al 2005;OECD 2001;Sommerville et al 2011;Herzog et al 2012;Jones et al 2012). To make the ranking process tractable, we selected and summarized the broad spectrum of criteria used to define indicators.…”

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When experts disagree: the need to rethink indicator selection for assessing sustainability of agriculture

Olde

Møller

Marchand

et al. 2016

Environ Dev Sustain

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Sustainability indicators are well recognized for their potential to assess and monitor sustainable development of agricultural systems. A large number of indicators are proposed in various sustainability assessment frameworks, which raises concerns regarding the validity of approaches, usefulness and trust in such frameworks. Selecting indicators requires transparent and well-defined procedures to ensure the relevance and validity of sustainability assessments. The objective of this study, therefore, was to determine whether 123Environ Dev Sustain DOI 10.1007/s10668-016-9803-x experts agree on which criteria are most important in the selection of indicators and indicator sets for robust sustainability assessments. Two groups of experts (Temperate Agriculture Research Network and New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard) were asked to rank the relative importance of eleven criteria for selecting individual indicators and of nine criteria for balancing a collective set of indicators. Both ranking surveys reveal a startling lack of consensus amongst experts about how best to measure agricultural sustainability and call for a radical rethink about how complementary approaches to sustainability assessments are used alongside each other to ensure a plurality of views and maximum collaboration and trust amongst stakeholders. To improve the transparency, relevance and robustness of sustainable assessments, the context of the sustainability assessment, including prioritizations of selection criteria for indicator selection, must be accounted for. A collaborative design process will enhance the acceptance of diverse values and prioritizations embedded in sustainability assessments. The process by which indicators and sustainability frameworks are established may be a much more important determinant of their success than the final shape of the assessment tools. Such an emphasis on process would make assessments more transparent, transformative and enduring.

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The challenge of monitoring biodiversity in payment for environmental service interventions

Cited by 46 publications

References 43 publications

Tackling the motivation to monitor: success and sustainability of a participatory monitoring program

Tackling the motivation to monitor: success and sustainability of a participatory monitoring program

Oblique aerial photography: a novel tool for the monitoring and participatory management of protected areas

When experts disagree: the need to rethink indicator selection for assessing sustainability of agriculture

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