Setting conservation priorities in multi-actor systems.

ABSTRACT: Nature conservation is underresourced, requiring managers to prioritize where, when, and how to spend limited funds. Prioritization methods identify the subset of actions that provide the most benefit to an actor's objective. However, spending decisions by conservation actors are often misaligned with their objectives. Although this misalignment is frequently attributed to poor choices by the actors, we argue that it can also be a byproduct of working alongside other organizations. Using strategic analyses of multi-actor systems in conservation, we show how interactions among multiple conservation actors can create misalignment between the spending and objectives of individual actors and why current uncoordinated prioritizations lead to fewer conservation objectives achieved for individual

SUBMITTER: O'Bryan CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11616722 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature