Arponen Anni, Salomaa Anna
Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Research Group Politics of Nature and the Environment (PONTE), Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.
Biodivers Conserv. 2023 Apr 15:1-23. doi: 10.1007/s10531-023-02600-3.
Transformative change can help achieve the 2050 vision of biodiversity, but concrete ways to achieve it are only being discovered. To contribute to the understanding of the practical options for concrete action to foster, accelerate and maintain the transformative change we assessed the leverage potential of existing conservation actions using the Meadows' Leverage points framework. We took the actions from the Conservation Actions Classification by the Conservation Measures Partnership. The outcome is a scheme that evaluates at which leverage points, from simple parameters to paradigms, the different conservation actions have potential to make an impact, and thus impact systemic change. We found that all conservation actions have potential to leverage systemic transformative change, with varying coverage of the leverage points. All leverage points were addressed by several actions. The scheme could be used both as an interim tool for evaluating transformative potential in different broad datasets, but also help with planning of new conservation policies, interventions and projects. We hope our work could be a first step toward standardization and broader adoption of assessing leverage in conservation research and practice, achieving broader socio-ecological system leverage with conservation tools.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10531-023-02600-3.
变革性变化有助于实现2050年生物多样性愿景，但实现这一愿景的具体方法仍在探索之中。为了促进对促进、加速和维持变革性变化的具体行动的实际选择的理解，我们使用梅多斯的杠杆点框架评估了现有保护行动的杠杆潜力。我们采用了保护措施伙伴关系的保护行动分类中的行动。结果是一个方案，该方案评估了从简单参数到范式的不同杠杆点，不同的保护行动有可能在这些点上产生影响，从而影响系统变革。我们发现，所有保护行动都有可能利用系统变革性变化，只是对杠杆点的覆盖程度各不相同。多个行动涉及了所有杠杆点。该方案既可以用作评估不同广泛数据集中变革潜力的临时工具，也有助于规划新的保护政策、干预措施和项目。我们希望我们的工作能够成为朝着在保护研究和实践中标准化和更广泛地采用评估杠杆迈出的第一步，利用保护工具实现更广泛的社会生态系统杠杆作用。
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