Introducing a common taxonomy to support learning from failure in conservation.

ABSTRACT: Although some sectors have made significant progress in learning from failure, there is currently limited consensus on how a similar transition could best be achieved in conservation and what is required to facilitate this. One of the key enabling conditions for other sectors is a widely accepted and standardized classification system for identifying and analyzing root causes of failure. We devised a comprehensive taxonomy of root causes of failure affecting conservation projects. To develop this, we solicited examples of real-life conservation efforts that were deemed to have failed in some way, identified their underlying root causes of failure, and used these to develop a generic, 3-tier taxonomy of the ways in which projects fail, at the top of which are 6 overarching cause categories

SUBMITTER: Dickson I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10107954 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature