TY - JOUR

T1 - Assessing Collaborative Conservation

T2 - A Case Survey of Output, Outcome, and Impact Measures Used in the Empirical Literature

AU - Koontz, Tomas M.

AU - Jager, Nicolas Wilhelm

AU - Newig, Jens

PY - 2020/4/2

Y1 - 2020/4/2

N2 - Much existing research on collaborative conservation has focused on process, even as researchers have called for greater attention to explaining what results these processes yield. It is time to take stock of collaborative conservation research by mapping what kinds of variables researchers are including in analyses. Here we conduct a case survey from the SCAPE database of environmental decision-making cases. We include cases involving collaboration across government, environmental protection, and resource exploitation interests in western democratic countries. Results reveal patterns in what researchers include in their outputs, outcomes, and impacts measures of collaborative conservation. While there is little difference by publication type (peer-reviewed journals, scholarly book chapters, or gray literature) or over time, we find significant differences in explicit measures across variable types. In particular, variables more proximate to process in a logic chain are more often measured, as are social rather than ecological variables.

AB - Much existing research on collaborative conservation has focused on process, even as researchers have called for greater attention to explaining what results these processes yield. It is time to take stock of collaborative conservation research by mapping what kinds of variables researchers are including in analyses. Here we conduct a case survey from the SCAPE database of environmental decision-making cases. We include cases involving collaboration across government, environmental protection, and resource exploitation interests in western democratic countries. Results reveal patterns in what researchers include in their outputs, outcomes, and impacts measures of collaborative conservation. While there is little difference by publication type (peer-reviewed journals, scholarly book chapters, or gray literature) or over time, we find significant differences in explicit measures across variable types. In particular, variables more proximate to process in a logic chain are more often measured, as are social rather than ecological variables.

KW - Sustainability Science

KW - case survey

KW - collaborative conservation

KW - logic chain

KW - measures variables

KW - Case survey

KW - collaborative conservation

KW - logic chain

KW - measures

KW - variables

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063186020&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/8ca2e2e4-d9e0-3123-827c-57e5280f664a/

U2 - 10.1080/08941920.2019.1583397

DO - 10.1080/08941920.2019.1583397

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 33

SP - 442

EP - 461

JO - Society and Natural Resources

JF - Society and Natural Resources

SN - 0894-1920

IS - 4

ER -