Assessing Collaborative Conservation: A Case Survey of Output, Outcome, and Impact Measures Used in the Empirical Literature. Issue 4 (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Koontz, Tomas M.; Jager, Nicolas W.; Newig, Jens
• Is Part Of: Society and natural resources. Volume 33:Issue 4(2020)
• Page Start: 442
• Page End: 461
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Case survey -- collaborative conservation -- logic chain -- measures -- variables; Natural resources -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 333.7
• DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2019.1583397
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0894-1920

Abstract

Abstract: 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.