Interventions aimed at improving the sustainability of natural resource use take place within a complex and dynamic ecological, economic, and social landscape. Complexities include: the institutional setting within which policies are implemented, at various interacting scales (from international multilateral agreements to household level); uncertainty and instability…
Little is known about the trade routes for saiga products, particularly at the supply end. In order to better understand the rapid decline in the Ustyurt saiga population, this research aims to identify trade routes and the distribution of the benefits of trade…
Today it is widely recognised that ‘the environment’ consists of systems both natural and cultural. Understanding and affecting these systems successfully will require collaboration across the sciences / humanities divide. This is urgent in areas like species conservation: despite 40 years of concerted international conservation action and advocacy, rates of biodiversity loss today are higher than ever…
This project is part of a large inter-disciplinary study. The Imperial College team’s contribution to HUNT is to develop models to support the sustainable management of hunted species, based upon the Management Strategy Evaluation approach in fisheries science. There are 3 linked sub-models, for the dynamics of the population, the decision-making of the hunters and that of the managers…
ICCS is an international partner organisation of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, led by Professor Hugh Possingham. Despite facing the sixth global mass extinction of species, most conservation management is unevaluated and inefficient…
Decision-making is at the heart of conservation. Governments decide how much funding to allocate to which initiatives, and managers decide how to spend the money most effectively to monitor and conserve biodiversity. At the smaller scale, local people decide how to use and conserve the biodiversity in their area. Any change in a person’s incentives will alter their decision-making, which feeds back into their behaviour…