tools and methodologies
Impact assessment
- Protected areas
- The Protected Areas Benefits Assessment Tool: A proposed methodology
The Protected Area Benefit Assessment Tool has been primarily designed for use by protected area managers to work with stakeholders to identify important values and the benefits that PAs bring to a range of stakeholders, from local to global.
http://www.equilibriumresearch.com/upload/document/PA_BAT_-_Final_Feb_2008.pdf
- Parks and People: Assessing the Human Welfare Effects of Establishing Protected Areas for Biodiversity Conservation
This paper summarises the main components of a strategy, developed by WCS, aimed at assessing the human impacts of PAs on local people.
www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00291.x
- The Protected Areas Benefits Assessment Tool: A proposed methodology
- Nature's Investment Bank: How Marine Protected Areas Contribute to Poverty Reduction
This study proposes a qualitative and a quantitative assessment tools to explore the impact of MPAs on poverty reduction.
http://www.nature.org/initiatives/protectedareas/files/mpa_report.pdf
- Exploring biological diversity, environment and local people's perspectives in forest landscapes. Methods for a multidisciplinary landscape assessment
This book brings together a suite of effective methods for decision makers on how to deal with the needs of local communities and biodiversity in landscapes. The techniques provide conventional biophysical descriptions of the landscape and explicitly relate this information to local needs, preferences and value systems.
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/mla/_ref/publication/exploring_biological_diversity.htm
- Capacity Building for Biodiversity in Impact Assessment (CBBIA)
The aim of CBBIA is to strengthen EIA (environmental impact assessment) and SEA (strategic environmental assessment) as tools to ensure that biodiversity is recognised as a fundamental issue in the planning, assessment and execution of projects and plans in developing countries.
http://www3.webng.com/jerbarker/home/eia-toolkit/overall/home.html
- Biodiversity-Inclusive Impact Assessment
This document supports the CBD Guidelines on Biodiversity in EIA (environmental impact assessment) and SEA (strategic environmental assessment).
http://www.cbd.int/doc/reviews/impact/information-guidelines.pdf
- Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal
Special issue on biodiversity and impact assessment of the Journal .Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal..
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/beech/iapa/2005/00000023/00000001
- Integrating Biodiversity into Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Processes
The main purpose of this document is to offer appropriate guidance on the integration of biodiversity into an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA).
http://www.theebi.org/pdfs/esia.pdf
- Impact Assessment
This handbook, part of the Ramsar handbooks. series for the wise use of wetlands, contains guidelines for incorporating biodiversity-related issues into environmental impact assessment legislation and/or processes and in strategic environmental assessment.
http://www.ramsar.org/lib/lib_handbooks2006_e13.pdf
- Landscape Outcome Assessment Methodology (LOAM)
This approach, developed by WWF, is aimed at enabling those working on landscape scale initiatives to be better able to measure, monitor and communicate the nature and extent to which a landscape is changing over time with respect to a small number of agreed conservation and livelihood outcomes.
http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/index.cfm?uNewsID=120980
- Catalog of Conservation Social Science Tools
This Catalog aims to provide conservation practitioners with greater capacity to integrate social sciences into their work by linking practitioners to key social science tools and methodological approaches, and by providing context for these tools.
http://www.conbio.org/WorkingGroups/SSWG/catalog/index.cfm
- Developing Methodologies for Livelihood Impact Assessment: Experience of the African Wildlife Foundation in East Africa
This paper explains the rationale for developing an impact assessment methodology incorporating livelihood analysis, summarises the methodology and its application, and identifies several lessons learnt from the application of the approach in two case studies in Kenya.
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/wp129.pdf
- Measuring the impact of livelihoods initiatives in a conservation context
This paper summarises the results of a multi-sectoral workshop held in July 2007. This paper, together with all documents produced for the meeting, are available at:
http://www.povertyandconservation.info/en/meeting_1.php
- Forest Quality: Assessing forests at a landscape scale
This book proposes a method for assessing forest quality at a landscape scale, through working with stakeholders to identify important aspects of quality and proposing ways of assessing these. It divides "quality" into three main elements: authenticity, environmental benefits and social and economic benefits.
- Monitoring the Socio-Economic Impacts of Projects at IBAs: A Global Framework
This paper describes the framework developed by BirdLife to monitor the socio-economic impacts of site-based projects.
- Assessing Environment and Development Outcomes in Conservation Landscapes
A collaborative effort between IUCN, WWF and CIFOR has lead to the development of a conceptual framework aimed at assessing both livelihoods and biodiversity outcomes of conservation activities at the landscape level.
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/Publications/Detail?pid=2131
- Socio-economic Impact Assessment Toolkit: A guide to assessing the socio-economic impacts of Marine Protected Areas in Australia
This toolkit has been developed to provide policy makers and the fishing sector with a general background and introduction to methods for assessing the socio-economic impacts within a fisheries context of proposals to declare MPAs in Australia. In particular, the toolkit focuses on potential impacts on the fishing industry, including related businesses and communities associated with fishing activities
http://www.environment.gov.au/coasts/mpa/publications/nrsmpa-seia.html
- Environmental Mainstreaming - A User Guide to Tools and Tactics
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has launched an initiative that aims to produce a .User Guide. to tools and tactics for integrating environment into development decision-making.
http://www.environmental-mainstreaming.org/index.html
- Tools for Integrating Conservation and Development
The goal of CIFOR.s project .Tools for Integrating Conservation and Development. is to help agencies to design and implement better landscape-level conservation and development projects by learning from the successes and failures of past initiatives and understanding the trade-offs and synergies between livelihoods and conservation.
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/conservation/_ref/home/index.htm
- Power tools: for policy influence in natural resource management
This website introduces a range of Power Tools . .how-to. ideas that marginalised people and their allies can use to have a greater positive influence on natural resources policy.
http://www.policy-powertools.org/
- Poverty-Forest Linkages Toolkit
PROFOR has developed a .Poverty-Forests Linkages Toolkit. to build better knowledge on the relationship between poverty and forests, and to facilitate relevant data collection and analysis.
http://www.profor.info/content/livelihood_poverty.html
- A Toolkit for Assessment of Landscape Conservation (TALC)
TALC has been developed to aid field practitioners in reviewing their progress in planning and implementing landscape conservation initiatives.
http://groups.google.com/group/talc_toolkit
- Guidelines for Developing, Testing and Selecting Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management
This manual provides methods for the development and evaluation of criteria and indicators (C&I) which can then be used to assess the sustainability of forest management.
http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/acm/methods
- Economic Tools for the Management of Marine Protected Areas in Eastern Africa
This guide provides a framework for analysing the economics of marine protected areas including identifying the benefits and costs of marine protected areas, valuing those benefits and costs, analysing the distribution of costs and benefits and therefore the need for incentives and financial mechanisms, and integrating economic measures into protected area management.
http://biodiversityeconomics.org/applications/library_documents/lib_document.rm?document_id=214
- Earth conservation toolbox
The earth conservation toolbox is a multi-organisational initiative building an open-access database of tools and methodologies to help field programmes, governments and others implement the ecosystem approach to conservation.
http://www.earthtoolbox.net/info.asp
- The IUCN Toolbox
This is a directory of tools developed by IUCN. It includes: assessment and monitoring tools, conservation management tools, conservation policy tools, and conservation education and awareness raising tools.
http://www.iucn.org/en/involved/tools.htm
- UNEP Environmental Management Tools
UNEP has collected a variety of procedures, methodologies, and instruments to assist individuals and organisations to undertake various environmental management tasks, including environmental assessments.
http://www.unep.fr/pc/pc/tools/index.htm