Future too warm for baby sharks
New research has found as climate change causes the world’s oceans to warm, baby sharks are born smaller, exhausted, undernourished and into environments that are already difficult for them to survi
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au
Abstract: Policymakers need salient, legitimate and credible evidence on the social and ecological impacts of efforts to conserve global biodiversity. Fuelled by calls for increased rigor in documenting the impact of conservation interventions, a cohort of quasi-experimental studies has begun to quantify the impacts of conservation. The breadth and scope of these studies remains limited, focusing on data-rich geographies, indicators and interventions. To lay the foundation for evidence-based conservation across a suite of real-world contexts, pragmatic approaches to impact evaluation are needed, grounded in theory and ongoing experience that simultaneously provides scientific insights and site-level guidance. Key characteristics of this approach include the use of research designs that enable causal inference but which are robust to limited secondary data, the broad definition of outcome metrics to capture both intended and unintended impacts and the ability to explore variation in impacts across social groups and spatiotemporal gradients. In this presentation, Dr. Louise Glew (WWF-US) will draw on examples from across conservation policy and practice, including protected areas, community-based approaches, and certification schemes. This approach is sufficiently robust to inform efforts to document and explain social impacts across myriad interventions, sociocultural and biogeographic settings. In so doing, it offers a mechanism for generating salient, legitimate and credible insights on the impact of conservation efforts to inform policy and practice.
Bio: Dr Louise Glew is the Lead Scientist for Monitoring and Evaluation at World Wildlife Fund (US), where she manages WWF’s monitoring and evaluation portfolio. Louise’s research focuses on understanding the social and ecological impacts of conservation interventions in complex social-ecological systems. Her current collaborative research projects include: understanding the linkages between conservation and poverty; empirical on social impacts of marine protected areas in Indonesia; the incentives and barriers for mainstreaming impact evaluation to support evidence-based conservation; and developing novel analytical techniques for predicting the impacts of conservation interventions. In addition to her research portfolio, Louise leads the implementation of an innovative, integrated monitoring, evaluation and learning strategy at WWF-US, known as the ‘M&E Roadmap’. Before working with WWF, Louise conducted her Ph.D. research in northern Kenya, documenting the social and ecological impacts of community conservation in northern Kenya.
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University Townsville
Queensland 4811 Australia
Phone: 61 7 4781 4000
Email: info@coralcoe.org.au