Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation in Nature Conservation
Övrig text i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2016

An important part of conservation practice is the empirical evaluation of program and policy impacts. Understanding why conservation programs succeed or fail is essential for designing cost-effective initiatives and for improving the livelihoods of natural resource users. The evidence we seek can be generated with modern impact evaluation designs. Such designs measure causal effects of specific interventions by comparing outcomes with the interventions to outcomes in credible counterfactual scenarios. Good designs also identify the conditions under which the causal effect arises. Despite a critical need for empirical evidence, conservation science has been slow to adopt these impact evaluation designs. We identify reasons for the slow rate of adoption and provide suggestions for mainstreaming impact evaluation in nature conservation.

Payment for environmental services

Impact evaluation

Conservation policy

Biodiversity

Protected areas

Författare

Kathy Baylis

University of Illinois

J. Honey-Rosés

University of British Columbia (UBC)

J. Börner

Universität Bonn

E. Corbera

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Driss Ezzine-de-Blas

CIRAD Centre de Recherche de Montpellier

P.J. Ferraro

Georgia State University

R. Lapeyre

Institut du developpement durable et des relations internationales (IDDRI)

Martin Persson

Chalmers, Energi och miljö, Fysisk resursteori

A. Pfaff

Duke University

Sven Wunder

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Conservation Letters

1755263x (eISSN)

Vol. 9 1 58-64

Drivkrafter

Hållbar utveckling

Ämneskategorier

Tvärvetenskapliga studier

Nationalekonomi

DOI

10.1111/conl.12180

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