Linking public participation in scientific research to the indicators and needs of international environmental agreements

Conservation Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-24

  Danielsen, Finn ^a   Pirhofer Walzl, Karin ^a,b   Adrian, Teis P ^a   Kapijimpanga, Daniel R ^a   Burgess, Neil D ^b,c,d   Jensen, Per M ^b   Bonney, Rick ^e   Funder, Mikkel ^f   Landa, Arild ^g   Levermann, Nette ^h   Madsen, Jesper ⁱ  

^a Nordisk Fond for Miljø og Udvikling ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^d UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME WORLD CONSERVATION MONITORING CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^f DANISH INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (Denmark)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h Government of Greenland   (Greenland)

ⁱ AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

2020 target; Adaptive management; Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services; Locally based monitoring; Observing system; Participatory monitoring; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893096377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12024     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Arnstein, S.R. (1969). A ladder of citizen participation. J. Am. Plann. Assoc., 35, 216-224.
2. Berkes, F., Colding, J. & Folke, C. (2000). Rediscovery of traditional ecological knowledge as adaptive management. Ecol. Appl., 10, 1251-1262.
3. Butchart, S.H.M., Walpole, M., Collen, B. et al. (2010). Global biodiversity: indicators of recent declines. Science, 328, 1164-1168.
4. Chambers, R.G., Pacey, A. & Thrupp, L.A. (1989). Farmer first: farmer innovation and agricultural research. Intermediate Technology Publications Ltd., London, UK.
5. Cinner, J.E. & Aswani, S. (2007). Integrating customary management into marine conservation. Biol. Conserv., 140, 201-216.
6. Convention on Biological Diversity. (2013) http://www.cbd.int/ (visited Feb. 15, 2013).
7. Cornell Lab of Ornithology & National Audubon Society. (2013). eBird. http://www.ebird.org (visited Feb. 15, 2013).
8. Danielsen, F., Burgess, N.D., Balmford, A. et al. (2009). Local participation in natural resource monitoring: a characterization of approaches. Conserv. Biol., 23, 31-42.
9. Danielsen, F., Burgess, N.D., Jensen, P.M. & Pirhofer-Walzl, K. (2010). Environmental monitoring: the scale and speed of implementation varies according to the degree of peoples involvement. J. Applied Ecol., 47, 1166-1168.
10. Danielsen, F., Topp-Jørgensen, E., Levermann, N. et al. (2013). Counting what counts: using local knowledge to improve Arctic resource management. Polar Geog., in press.
11. Ehrlich, P.R. & Kennedy, D. (2005). Millennium assessment of human behavior. Science, 309, 562-563.
12. Fry, B. (2011). Community forest monitoring in REDD+: the 'M' in MRV? Environ. Sci. Policy, 14, 181-187.
13. Funder, M., Danielsen, F., Nielsen M.R. et al. Reshaping conservation: the social dynamics of participatory monitoring in Tanzania's community-managed forests. Conserv. Soc., in press October 2012.
14. Harremoës, P., Gee, D., MacGarvin, M. et al. (eds.) (2001). Late lessons from early warnings: The precautionary principle 1896-2000. Environmental Issue Report 22. European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark.
15. Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. (2013) http://www. ipbes.net/ (visited Feb. 15, 2013).
16. Johannes, R.E. (1998). Government-supported, village-based management of marine resources in Vanuatu. Ocean Coast. Manage., 40, 165-186.
17. Jones, J.P.G., Collen, B., Atkinson, G. et al. (2011). The why, what, and how of global biodiversity indicators beyond the 2010 target. Conserv. Biol., 25, 450-457.
18. Kanie, N. (2007). Governance with multilateral environmental agreements: A healthy or ill-equipped fragmentation? Pages 67-86 in W. Hoffmann, L. Swart, editors. Global environmental governance. Center for UN Reform Education, New York.
19. Kuijken, E. (2006). A short history of waterbird conservation. Pages 52-59 in G.C. Boere, C.A. Galbraith, D.A. Stroud, editors. Waterbirds around the world. The Stationery Office, Edinburgh, UK.
20. Mace, G.M. & Baillie, J.E.M. (2007). The 2010 biodiversity indicators: challenges for science and policy. Conserv. Biol., 21, 1406-1413.
21. Mitchell, R.B. (2003). International environmental agreements: a survey of their features, formation, and effects. Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour., 28, 429-461.
22. Obura, D.O. (2001). Participatory monitoring of shallow tropical marine fisheries by artisanal fishers in Diani, Kenya. Bull. Mar. Sci., 69, 777-791.
23. OECD. (1998). Towards sustainable development: environmental indicators. OECD, Paris.
24. Partnership for the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. (2013). Partnership for the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. http://www.eaaflyway.net/ (visited Feb. 15, 2013).
25. Pattengill-Semmens, C.V. & Semmens, B.X. (1998). Fish census data generated by non-experts in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. Gulf Mex. Sci., 2, 196-207.
26. Pereira, H.M., Ferrier, S., Walters, M. et al. (2013). Essential biodiversity variables. Science, 339, 277-278.
27. Possingham, H.P., Wintle, B.A., Fuller, R.A. & Joseph, L.N. (2012). The conservation return on investment from ecological monitoring. Pages 49-61 in D. Lindenmayer, P. Gibbons, editors. Biodiversity monitoring in Australia. CSIRO, Collingwood, Australia.
28. Pretty, J. & Hine, R. (1999). Participatory appraisal for community assessment. Centre for Environment and Society, University of Essex, Essex, UK.
29. Shirk, J.L., Ballard, H.L., Wilderman, C.C. et al. (2012). Public participation in scientific research: a framework for deliberate design. Ecol. Soc., 17, 29.
30. Sparks, T.H., Butchart, S.H.M., Balmford, A. et al. (2011). Linked indicator sets for addressing biodiversity loss. Oryx, 45, 411-419.
31. Staddon, S.C., Nightingale, A. & Shrestha, S.K. (2012). Who and what is participatory ecological monitoring for. Pages 164-170 in S.C. Staddon, editor. Keeping track of nature: interdisciplinary insights for participatory ecological monitoring. The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
32. Sutherland, W.J., Pullin, A.S., Dolman, P.M. & Knight, T.M. (2004). The need for evidence-based conservation. Trends Ecol. Evol., 19, 305-308.
33. Tidball, K.G. & Krasny, M. (2012). A role for citizen science in disaster and conflict recovery and resilience. Pages 226-233 in J. L. Dickinson, R. Bonney, editors. Citizen science. Cornell Press, Ithaca, NY.
34. UNEP, CBD. (2010). UNEP/CBD/COP/DEC/X/2 2010, Decision adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity at its tenth meeting, Nagoya, Japan, 18-29 October 2010. Decision X/2. The strategic plan for biodiversity 2011-2020 and the Aichi biodiversity targets. Secretariat of the CBD, Montreal, Canada.
35. Walker, B., Barrett, S., Polasky, S. et al. (2009). Looming global-scale failures and missing institutions. Science, 325, 1345-1346.
36. Walpole, M., Almond, R.E.A., Besançon, C. et al. (2009). Tracking progress toward the 2010 biodiversity target and beyond. Science, 325, 1503-1504.
37. White, S. (1996). Depoliticising development: the uses and abuses of participation. Dev. Practice., 6, 6-15.
38. WordFishcenter. (2008). Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network. http://www.gcrmn.org (visited Feb. 15, 2013).
39. World Bank. (2012). Countries and economies. http://data.worldbank.org/country (visited Feb. 25, 2012).
40. Yoccoz, N.G., Nichols, J.D. & Boulinier, T. (2001). Monitoring of biological diversity in space and time. Trends Ecol. Evol., 16, 446-453.