Innovating social and economic strategies for landscape scale conservation

本项目将与皇家鸟类保护协会合作，调查生物多样性保护战略如何影响社会、文化和经济目标。保护地球环境，同时维持和改善粮食安全，也许是21世纪最大的挑战。虽然自然科学研究揭示了平衡粮食生产和环境目标的最大潜力的大规模保护战略，但对这些战略的社会，文化或经济动态和影响知之甚少。例如，它们如何影响社区，社区如何与它们接触，或如何有效、公平和高效地实施这些方法。该项目“创新社会和经济战略，景观规模的保护”将使用多个学科来了解规模的生物多样性保护战略如何影响社会，文化和经济目标，以及哪些干预措施可以最好地平衡竞争目标。该项目是与欧洲最大的环境非政府组织皇家鸟类保护协会（RSPB）共同设计的，因此其产出可以直接为政策提供信息。具体而言，该项目将借鉴多个学科，包括人文地理学，政治学和环境经济学，以调查：1）大规模保护对一系列利益相关者的可能后果2）哪些政策机制更有可能或更少，在实践中实现有效和公平的大规模保护，特别是当跨多个土地所有者工作时。在此过程中，该项目应对了将社会和文化价值观与环境数据相结合的挑战，以提供现实和相关的政策相关产出。通过调查可持续土地利用战略的政治和经济学，该项目将使皇家鸟类保护协会能够了解保护战略如何影响社会，文化和经济问题。这是至关重要的，如果大规模的保护是从生态模型到保护和农业实践，并从理论到现实。

This project will work with the RSPB to investigate how biodiversity conservation strategies affect social, cultural, and economic objectives.Safeguarding the global environment while maintaining and improving food security is perhaps the 21st century's greatest challenge. While natural science studies have revealed the landscape-scale conservation strategies with greatest potential for balancing food production and environmental goals, very little is known about the social, cultural, or economic dynamics and impacts of these strategies. E.g. how they might affect communities, how communities might engage with them, or how such approaches could be implemented effectively, equitably and efficiently. The project "Innovating social and economic strategies for landscape scale conservation" will use multiple disciplines to understand how landscape-scale biodiversity conservation strategies affect social, cultural, and economic objectives, and which interventions can best balance competing objectives. The project has been co-designed with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), Europe's largest environmental NGO, so that its outputs can directly inform policy. Specifically, the project will draw on multiple disciplines, including human geography, politics, and environmental economics, to investigate: 1) The probable consequences of landscape-scale conservation for a range of stakeholders 2) Which policy mechanisms are more, or less, likely to achieve effective and equitable landscape-scale conservation in practice, particularly when working across multiple landowners. In doing so, the project tackles the challenge of combining social and cultural values with environmental data to provide realistic and relevant policy-relevant outputs. By investigating the politics and economics of sustainable land-use strategies, the project will allow the RSPB to develop its understanding of how conservation strategies may affect, and be affected by, social, cultural, and economic concerns. This is crucial if landscape-scale conservation is to move from ecological modelling into conservation and agricultural practice, and from theory to reality.