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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Engage the hodgepodge: Management factors are essential when prioritizing areas for restoration and conservation action
Diversity and Distributions, Volume 17, No. 6, Year 2011
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Description
Restoration and conservation initiatives, such as the eradication of invasive alien plants, should be guided by scientific evidence. Typically, ecological data alone is used to inform the decision-making of these initiatives. Recent advances in the mapping of conservation opportunity include a diverse range of scientifically-identified factors that determine the feasibility and likely effectiveness of conservation initiatives, and include, for example, data on the willingness and capacity of land managers to be effectively involved. Social research techniques such as interview surveys, phenomenology, and social network analysis are important approaches for securing useful human and social data. These approaches are yet to be widely adopted in restoration initiatives, but could be usefully applied to improve the effective implementation of these initiatives. Restoration and conservation planners will deliver spatial prioritisations which provide more effective and cost-efficient decision-making if they include not simply ecological data, but also data on economic, human, management, social and vulnerability factors that determine implementation effectiveness. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Authors & Co-Authors
Knight, Andrew T.
South Africa, Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch University
Sarkar, Sahotra
United States, Austin
The University of Texas at Austin
Smith, Robert J.
United Kingdom, Canterbury
University of Kent
Strange, Niels
Denmark, Frederiksberg
Det Natur- og Biovidenskabelige Fakultet
Wilson, Kerrie A.
Australia, Brisbane
The University of Queensland
Statistics
Citations: 41
Authors: 5
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00789.x
ISSN:
13669516
e-ISSN:
14724642
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study
Phenomenological Study
Study Approach
Qualitative