Introducing a common taxonomy to support learning from failure in conservation

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Veröffentlicht in:	Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology. - 1999. - 37(2023), 1 vom: 07. Feb., Seite e13967
1. Verfasser:	Dickson, Iain (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser:	Butchart, Stuart H M, Catalano, Allison, Gibbons, David, Jones, Julia P G, Lee-Brooks, Katie, Oldfield, Thomasina, Noble, David, Paterson, Stuart, Roy, Sugoto, Semelin, Julien, Tinsley-Marshall, Paul, Trevelyan, Rosie, Wauchope, Hannah, Wicander, Sylvia, Sutherland, William J
Format:	Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:	Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Schlagworte:	Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't adaptive management aprendizaje clasificación classification failure fracaso informar soluciones informing solutions mehr... learning manejo adaptativo reflection reflexión 分类反思失败学习提供解决方案适应性管理

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Zusammenfassung:	© 2022 The Authors. Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. Although some sectors have made significant progress in learning from failure, there is currently limited consensus on how a similar transition could best be achieved in conservation and what is required to facilitate this. One of the key enabling conditions for other sectors is a widely accepted and standardized classification system for identifying and analyzing root causes of failure. We devised a comprehensive taxonomy of root causes of failure affecting conservation projects. To develop this, we solicited examples of real-life conservation efforts that were deemed to have failed in some way, identified their underlying root causes of failure, and used these to develop a generic, 3-tier taxonomy of the ways in which projects fail, at the top of which are 6 overarching cause categories that are further divided into midlevel cause categories and specific root causes. We tested the taxonomy by asking conservation practitioners to use it to classify the causes of failure for conservation efforts they had been involved in. No significant gaps or redundancies were identified during this testing phase. We then analyzed the frequency that particular root causes were encountered by projects within this test sample, which suggested that some root causes were more likely to be encountered than others and that a small number of root causes were more likely to be encountered by projects implementing particular types of conservation action. Our taxonomy could be used to improve identification, analysis, and subsequent learning from failed conservation efforts, address some of the barriers that currently limit the ability of conservation practitioners to learn from failure, and contribute to establishing an effective culture of learning from failure within conservation
Beschreibung:	Date Completed 01.02.2023 Date Revised 19.04.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:	1523-1739
DOI:	10.1111/cobi.13967