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Monitoring & evaluation

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Guidance Documents

PRISM-Toolkit for evaluating the outcomes and impacts of small/medium-sized conservation projects. Version 1 (Conservation Evaluation)   Download

 

Evaluating the impacts of conservation interventions on human wellbeing: guidance for practitioners (2016). (Woodhouse, E., E. de Lange, and E.J. Milner-Gulland)  Download

 

Handbook on impact evaluation: quantitative methods and practices (2010). (The World Bank)  External resource

 

Theory-based impact evaluation: principles and practice (2009). (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation)  External resource

Key Papers

Alldredge, M. W., D. P. Walsh, L. L. Sweanor, R. B. Davies, and A. Trujillo. 2015. Evaluation of translocation of black bears involved in human-bear conflicts in South-Central Colorado. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39:334-340.  External resource

 

Baruch-Mordo, S., S. W. Breck, K. R. Wilson, and J. Broderick. 2011. The carrot or the stick? Evaluation of education and enforcement as management tools for human-wildlife conflicts. Plos One 6:8.  Download

 

Baylis, K., J. Honey-Rosés, J. Börner, E. Corbera, D. Ezzine-de-Blas, P. J. Ferraro, R. Lapeyre, U. M. Persson, A. Pfaff, and S. Wunder. 2016. Mainstreaming impact evaluation in nature conservation. Conservation Letters 9:58-64.  Download

 

Bottrill, M. C., and R. L. Pressey. 2012. The effectiveness and evaluation of conservation planning. Conservation Letters 5:407-420.  Download

 

Brooks, J., K. A. Waylen, and M. B. Mulder. 2013. Assessing community-based conservation projects: a systematic review and multilevel analysis of attitudinal, behavioral, ecological, and economic outcomes. Environmental Evidence 2:2.  Download

 

Butler, J. R. A., J. C. Young, I. A. G. McMyn, B. Leyshon, I. M. Graham, I. Walker, J. M. Baxter, J. Dodd, and C. Warburton. 2015. Evaluating adaptive co-management as conservation conflict resolution: learning from seals and salmon. Journal of Environmental Management 160:212-225.  Download

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Canney, A. C., L. M. McGough, N. A. Bickford, and K. E. Wallen. 2022. Systematic map of human-raptor interaction and coexistence research. Animals 12:45.  Download 

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Carlisle, K. M., H. E. Ellis, L. M. Jaebker, and A. D. Bright. 2022. Producers’ perceptions of large carnivores and nonlethal methods to protect livestock from depredation: findings from a multistate federal initiative. Human Dimensions of Wildlife:1-4.  External resource 

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Dertien, J. S., H. Negi, E. Dinerstein, R. Krishnamurthy, H. S. Negi, R. Gopal, S. Gulick, S. K. Pathak, M. Kapoor, P. Yadav, M. Benitez, M. Ferreira, A. J. Wijnveen, A. T. L. Lee, B. Wright, and R. F. Baldwin. 2023. Mitigating human–wildlife conflict and monitoring endangered tigers using a real-time camera-based alert system. Bioscience.   Download 

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Espinosa, S., and S. K. Jacobson. 2012. Human-wildlife conflict and environmental education: evaluating a community program to protect the Andean bear in Ecuador. Journal of Environmental Education 43:55-65.  External resource

 

Gore, M. L., B. A. Knuth, P. D. Curtis, and J. E. Shanahan. 2006. Education programs for reducing American black bear-human conflict: indicators of success? Ursus 17:75-80.  External resource

 

Gore, M. L., B. A. Knuth, C. W. Scherer, and P. D. Curtis. 2008. Evaluating a conservation investment designed to reduce human-wildlife conflict. Conservation Letters 1:136-145.  Download

 

Hazzah, L., S. Dolrenry, L. Naughton, C. T. T. Edwards, O. Mwebi, F. Kearney, and L. Frank. 2014. Efficacy of two lion conservation programs in Maasailand, Kenya. Conservation Biology 28:851-860.  External resource

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Koot, S., Hebinck, P., & Sullivan, S. 2020. Science for success—A conflict of interest? Researcher position and reflexivity in socio-ecological research for CBNRM in Namibia. Society & Natural Resources. External resource

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Kormos, C., and R. Gifford. 2014. The validity of self-report measures of proenvironmental behavior: a meta-analytic review. Journal of Environmental Psychology 40:359-371.  External resource

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LeFlore, E. G., Fuller, T. K., Tomeletso, M., Dimbindo, T. C., & Stein, A. B. 2020. Human dimensions of human–lion conflict: A pre- and post-assessment of a lion conservation programme in the Okavango Delta Botswana. Environmental Conservation, 47(3):182–189. External resource 

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Maclennan, S. D., R. J. Groom, D. W. Macdonald, and L. G. Frank. 2009. Evaluation of a compensation scheme to bring about pastoralist tolerance of lions. Biological Conservation 142:2419-2427.  External resource

 

Marchini S, Ferraz KMPMB, Foster V, Reginato T, Kotz A, Barros Y, Zimmermann A and Macdonald DW (2021). Planning for Human-Wildlife Coexistence: Conceptual Framework, Workshop Process, and a Model for Transdisciplinary Collaboration. Frontiers in

Conservation Science 2:752953. Download

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Margoluis, R., C. Stem, N. Salafsky, and M. Brown. 2009. Using conceptual models as a planning and evaluation tool in conservation. Evaluation and Program Planning 32:138-147.  External resource

 

Mascia, M. B., S. Pallier, M. L. Thieme, A. Rowe, M. C. Bottrill, F. Danielsen, J. Geldmann, R. Naidoo, A. S. Pullin, and N. D. Burgess. 2014. Commonalities and complementarities among approaches to conservation monitoring and evaluation. Biological Conservation 169:258-267.  External resource​​

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NiedziaÅ‚kowski, K., A. Sidorovich, V. Kireyeu, and A. Shkaruba. 2021. Stimuli and barriers to innovation in wildlife policy – long-term institutional analysis of wolf management in Belarus. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research:1-21.  External resource 

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Pekarsky, S., I. Schiffner, Y. Markin, and R. Nathan. 2021. Using movement ecology to evaluate the effectiveness of multiple human-wildlife conflict management practices. Biological Conservation 262:109306.  External resource 

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​Pop, M. I., S. R. Gradinaru, V. D. Popescu, D. Haase, and C. I. Iojă. 2023. Emergency-line calls as an indicator to assess human–wildlife interaction in urban areas. Ecosphere 14:e4418.   Download 

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Sherry, J. L. 1997. Prosocial soap operas for development. The Journal of International Communication 4:75-101.  External resource

 

Stem, C., R. Margoluis, N. Salafsky, and M. Brown. 2005. Monitoring and evaluation in conservation: a review of trends and approaches. Conservation Biology 19:295-309.  External resource

 

Sutherland, W. J., A. S. Pullin, P. M. Dolman, and T. M. Knight. 2004. The need for evidence-based conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:305-308.  External resource

 

​Vongraven, D., S. C. Amstrup, T. L. McDonald, J. Mitchell, and N. G. Yoccoz. 2023. Relating polar bears killed, human presence, and ice conditions in Svalbard 1987–2019. Frontiers in Conservation Science 4.   Download 

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Washington, H., J. Baillie, C. Waterman, and E. J. Milner-Gulland. 2015. A framework for evaluating the effectiveness of conservation attention at the species level. Oryx 49:481-491.  External resource

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Webber, A. D., C. M. Hill, and V. Reynolds. 2007. Assessing the failure of a community-based human-wildlife conflict mitigation project in Budongo Forest Reserve, Uganda. Oryx 41:177-184.  External resource

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Weise, F. J., J. R. Lemeris, S. J. Munro, A. Bowden, C. Venter, M. van Vuuren, and R. J. van Vuuren. 2015. Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) running the gauntlet: an evaluation of translocations into free-range environments in Namibia. Peerj 3:35.  Download

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White, J. P., W. H. Stiver, M. K. Steinberg, and J. R. Cissell. 2022. Comparing management techniques used on conflict American black bears in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Ursus 2022:1-7, 7.  External resource 

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Young, J. C., J. R. Young, and B. A. Aubert. 2022. Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts. Conservation Letters:e12891.  Download 

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Young, J. C., A. Jordan, K. R. Searle, A. Butler, D. S. Chapman, P. Simmons, and A. D. Watt. 2013. Does stakeholder involvement really benefit biodiversity conservation? Biological Conservation 158:359-370.  External resource

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Zuluaga, S., F. H. Vargas, S. Kohn, and J. M. Grande. 2021. Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation.  Download 

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