Social Networks for Coastal Conservation

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Social Networks for Coastal Conservation

• Ken Vance-Borland
• The Conservation Planning Institute
• June Holley
• Network Weaving

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A Conservation Plan for the Klamath-Siskiyou
Ecoregion
Reed F. Noss, James R. Strittholt, Kenneth
Vance-Borland, Carlos Carroll, and Pamela Frost
1999. Natural Areas Journal 19392-411
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A Multicriteria Assessment of the
Irreplaceability and Vulnerability of Sites the
Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Reed Noss, Carlos Carroll, Ken Vance-Borland, and
George Wuerthner

2002. Conservation Biology 16(4) 895-908
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An Ecosystem Spatial Analysis forHaida Gwaii,
Central Coast, andNorth Coast British Columbia

• The Nature Conservancy of Canada
• Conservation Science Inc.
• Round River Conservation Studies
• Min. of Sustainable Resource Management
• Min. of Water, Air and Land Protection
• Living Oceans Society
• The Nature Conservancy (U.S.)

http//www.citbc.org
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The biodiversity planning component should be
integrated into an implementation framework and
not vice versa
Cowling and Pressey 2003, Biological Conservation
1121-13
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Great Sand Hills Regional Environmental Study
Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, U. of
Regina, U. of Central Florida, U. of Saskatchewa
n, The Conservation Planning Institute, and othe
rs
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Our proposal
Ministers recommendation
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Paired Study Queensland and Oregon
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Main Objectives of the Paired Study

• Improved planning for the coastal zone
• Understanding stakeholders and engaging with
  them
  
• New interactive tools for practitioners
• Facilitating implementation at all stages of the
  planning process
  
• Identify generic lessons and special regional
  circumstances
  
• Subsequent adaptation of planning approach to
  regions with different social, economic and
  political characteristics

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Knight et al. 2006, Conservation Biology
20408-419
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Inkjet Quality, Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, Oregon
Sandow and Allen 2005, Reflections 61-14
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Agro-foresters in four villages in Ghana.
Isaac et al. 2007, Ecology and Society 12(2)32
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62 civil-society organizations that worked to
protect
the Stockholm National Urban Park.
Ernstson et al. 2008, Ecology and Society (in
press)
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Information sharing among seven rural communities
of the Loreto Bay National Marine Park, Gulf of
California, Mexico.
Ramirez-Sanchez 2007
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Positive Deviance MRSA Prevention Network for
Pittsburg, PA, Veterans Hospitals
Holley 2007. (MRSA methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus )
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Background

• Much reading of network and complexity research
  and practice
  
• 20 years - worked with others to experiment in
  building a regional entrepreneurship network
  where 100s of organizations worked together in 18
  counties to create new infrastructure to support
  businesses and develop regional strategies

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Why Networks?

• Complex ecosystems require an equally complex set
  of humans continually engaging around
  conservation planning, policy and implementation
  
• Network maps enable people to focus on
  relationships and more explicitly engage the
  diversity needed for good planning

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Question

• How to embed network mapping into conservation
  activities so that people in the network - not
  experts or researchers - can easily use it in an
  ongoing fashion?

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Smart Network Analyzer

• Very easy to use, small, java-based software to
  generate maps and a few metrics
  
• Web survey streamlines data gathering
• Available at very low cost to projects Ken or
  June get involved in

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Network Mapping Process
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Network Analysis - Elements
Elephant Tails
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Network Analysis -Stages
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Metrics

• Connector connect parts of the network that
  otherwise would not be connected.
  
• Awareness potential awareness of what is
  happening in the network.
  
• Influence looks at both direct and indirect
  links pointing to a node.
  
• Integration good measure of network health

Krebs and Holley 2004, Networkweaving.com
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Metrics Outcomes
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Network Weaving
Convening
Connecting
Supporting Self- Organization
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Lincoln County Pilot Social Network Study
Area 250,000 ha Population 46,000
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Survey Questions

• Please list key individuals with whom you have
  collaborated on sustainable natural resource
  projects or issues during the past two years.
  
• Who do you rely on most for accurate information
  or advice?
  
• Who do you look to for new or innovative ideas?
• Who are most critical to the success of policy
  initiatives?
  
• Who has contributed most to sustainable natural
  resource management?

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DemonstrationSmart Network Analyzer Using
the Lincoln County Sustainable Natural Resources
Network
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Ill start introducing unconnected people, and
trying to work more with the highly influential
ones.
Wayne Hoffman, Mid-Coast Watershed Council
coordinator
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A Conservation Social Network on the Queensland
Coast the Burdekin Catchment
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Early Stage Burdekin Catchment Sustainable
Resources Network Map
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Next Steps for the Paired Study Social Networks
Project

• Complete the Lincoln County and Burdekin
  Catchment pilot projects
  
• Expand to the entire Oregon and Queensland study
  areas
  
• Consultations to inform our conservation planning
  analysis, modeling, and outputs

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Other Social Network ProjectsKimbe Bay, Papua
New Guinea
With Freda Paiva, The Nature Conservancy, Kimbe
Bay Field Office
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Other Social Network ProjectsVanuatu
With Chris Bartlett, James Cook University And
Nguna-Pele Marine
Protected Area
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Other Social Network ProjectsGulf of California
With Jorge Alvarez-Romero, James Cook Universit
y
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Ken Vance-Borland The Conservation Planning Insti
tute Corvallis, Oregon kenvb_at_consplan.net www.c
onservationplanninginstitute.org
June Holley Network Weaving Athens, Ohio june_at_n
etworkweaving.com
www.networkweaving.com