The impact and return-on-investment of evidence-based practice in conservation and environmental management: A machine learning-assisted scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT: Evidence-based Practice (EBP) is a vital principle, with its origins in the 1970s, that has transformed the disciplines of medicine and healthcare. The use of best available evidence to inform decisions and best practice has since spread across other disciplines, including in the environmental sciences through evidence-based conservation and environmental management. However, ironically there only appears to be a single scoping review on the impacts and return-on-investment of EBP in healthcare and it is unclear whether any such evidence exists in the broad field of conservation and environmental management. In this scoping review, we aim to explore the extent to which evaluations of the impacts and return-on-investment of EBP and evidence use have been conducted in conservation and enviro

SUBMITTER: Christie AP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12814508 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature