Convening Partners to Define the Landscape of the Future: Steps

toward multi-partner Landscape Conservation Design

June 2015 Steering Committee Workshop

Vision Landscapes capable of sustaining natural and

cultural resources for current and future generations.

Partners ARE the Cooperativethe decision-makersthe data providersthe implementers

CLCC is a new way of doing conserva bridging entitya convening foruma place for social learninga place to foster synergism

A place to ask… how can we helpeach other succeed?

What are our common goals?

What is the CLCC?

The CLCC is NOT a cash-cow

A movement from isolated efforts and random acts of conservation….

To intentional and collaborative conservation toward common goals

What are our common goals?

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CLCC Science: Where We’re At

• Science strategy: Mission Alignment– Articulating a common set of shared priorities, building partnerships, common knowledge, and a framework for specific objectives.

• Science strategy– Identifying surrogate resources and ecological, social, and economic indicators, developing spatially-explicit representation of priority resources, drivers, vulnerabilities, and capacities in current and future scenarios, and developing targets for indicator resources.

• Science strategy– A roadmap for collaboratively linking conservation action with spatially-explicit conservation and adaptation strategies, and for monitoring outcomes and adapting our collective response.

CLCC Science: Where We’re At

• Science Plan: Mission Alignment – Articulating a common set of shared priorities, building partnerships, common knowledge, and a framework for specific objectives.

• Science Plan – Identifying surrogate resources and ecological, social, and economic indicators, developing spatially-explicit representation of priority resources, drivers, vulnerabilities, and capacities in current and future scenarios, and developing targets for indicator resources.

• Science Plan – A roadmap for collaboratively linking conservation action with spatially-explicit conservation and adaptation strategies, and for monitoring outcomes and adapting our collective response.

Structured Design Making (SDM) Approach for Shaping CLCC Conservation Planning• SDM approach provides a framework for developing

resource indicators and actions to reach targets within landscape design

• SDM will facilitate and promote the purposeful collaborative co-production of conservation

• Transparent and defensible – the “whys” are all clearly defined

• All stakeholders *especially managers* included in process = co-production and better assures applicable science and use

Value-driven Landscape Design

• Digs deep to evaluate the “why” to provide context for conservation design

• Transcend organizational boundaries and limitations – finds commonality

• Allow / facilitate partners to see their roles in the larger scheme

Landscape Conservation Design (LCD)

-- is a partnership driven adaptive learning process that integrates societal values and multi-sector interests with the best available science to assess spatial and temporal patterns, risks, and opportunities; resulting in spatially explicit products and coordinated strategies that protect biodiversity and ecosystem services, and increase the resilience and sustainability of social ecological systems for future generations (Campellone et al. in prep).

1. Agreement on common goals2. Multi-disciplinary design team consisting of scientists,

managers, policy-makers from all relevant sectors3. Partners committed to implementation and delivery

Today’s Landscape Conservation Design

• Recognizes that modern threats and vulnerabilities too large to tackle locally– Require a landscape scale perspective

• Recognizes that individual conservation efforts are no longer sufficient– Need to develop synergies based on complementary strengths

• Recognizes that decisions and actions must be based on multi-organizational shared visions and objectives– Must be coordinated to avoid “random acts of conservation”

• Recognizes the importance of cultural and socio-economic needs and engagement in landscape-scale conservation

Land and Seascape Conservation: Creating our Legacy

Who?What?

Where?Why?

When?How?

How much?

Who?What?

Where?Why?

When?How?

How much?

Scenario Assessments

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Indicator(s) & targets

Support layers

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1. Can a new model for conservation be developed such that these activities as a whole provide more accountability, efficiency

and added value?

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LCC

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LCC Structure

Slide modified from E. Bean and J. Collazo, 2011

Objective X. Define what needs done and by who

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iCAPP framework for LCD

Campellone et al. in prep.

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PrOACT as a tool to achieve LCD

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Workshop Expectations

• We “get on the same page” in terms of the problem we’re jointly addressing– SC members influence one another guided by coaches to

agree on problem

• Develop a set of actionable objectives based on shared values and priorities– Define the work the staff with coordinate and CATs

will undertake

• We discuss some alternative strategies to address our objectives

Workshop Expectations

• This will not be your typical workshop– The agenda is tentative = prepare to be flexible– We need to accomplish “A” before moving onto “B”

• Decision coaches not facilitators

• Staff available to clarify and provide support

• Daily closing: what’s your connection to what we achieved today?

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