TY - JOUR
T1 - Landscape-Scale Prioritization Process for Private Land Conservation in Alberta
AU - Ryan, Sean
AU - Hanson, Lorelei
AU - Gismondi, Mike
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Acknowledgments This project was part of a larger study of land trust applications by the British Columbia-Alberta Social Economy Research Alliance, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2006–2012). http://www.socialeconomy-bcalberta.ca/. The authors would also like to thank the interviewees, who shared their time and their thoughts with us on land conservation issues in Alberta.
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Nonetheless, this report does provide numerous positive recommendations. For instance, CLTOs are struggling under a lack of funding. The Land Trust Leadership Project recognizes this and advocates the creation of “significant, long-term endowment funding to support the work of land trusts” (5). The report also acknowledges the need for better coordination of and access to GIS information to assist CLTOs. These are crucial aspects that would serve the private conservation movement well; however, they are incomplete. Without an express and detailed prescription for a landscape-scale approach, CLTOs could be meeting all the requirements and even future recommendations, yet still be making suboptimal decisions at a landscape level.
PY - 2014/2
Y1 - 2014/2
N2 - There are 12 conservation land trust organizations (CLTOs) in the province of Alberta, Canada that actively steward land. Together they have protected over 1.09 million hectares of land. Using in-depth interview data with published documents on CLTOs, this paper examines how CLTOs make decisions as to which projects to pursue and the kinds of justifications they offer for the projects they have completed. We identify 13 aspects that such a decision-making process should contain. The CLTOs studied have, to some degree, incorporated 7 of them. The remaining 6 aspects could easily be contributing substantially to some of the main the challenges identified in both the literature and our own research regarding private land conservation. Consequently, we recommend developing a robust landscape-scale approach to private land conservation, communicating that approach to all CLTOs, and increasing cooperation among CLTOs and between them and government.
AB - There are 12 conservation land trust organizations (CLTOs) in the province of Alberta, Canada that actively steward land. Together they have protected over 1.09 million hectares of land. Using in-depth interview data with published documents on CLTOs, this paper examines how CLTOs make decisions as to which projects to pursue and the kinds of justifications they offer for the projects they have completed. We identify 13 aspects that such a decision-making process should contain. The CLTOs studied have, to some degree, incorporated 7 of them. The remaining 6 aspects could easily be contributing substantially to some of the main the challenges identified in both the literature and our own research regarding private land conservation. Consequently, we recommend developing a robust landscape-scale approach to private land conservation, communicating that approach to all CLTOs, and increasing cooperation among CLTOs and between them and government.
KW - Alberta
KW - Conservation
KW - Land trusts
KW - Landscape ecology
KW - Private land conservation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84895072683&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10745-013-9621-9
DO - 10.1007/s10745-013-9621-9
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:84895072683
SN - 0300-7839
VL - 42
SP - 103
EP - 114
JO - Human Ecology
JF - Human Ecology
IS - 1
ER -
