Perspectives on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation

摘要: The Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation (OS), and its software platform Miradi, are becoming central tools conservation management. There is, however, very little literature on either after 5 years widespread implementation. We applied OS, using to five widely varied projects as foundation this perspective. find, in general, that OS logical, clear, provide a robust hierarchical structure from which organize management action track progress toward project goals. One goal Measures Partnership creating is foster community practice conservation. To better accomplish this, we recommend working toward: (1) library case studies illustrate tension between flexibility management; (2) broadening definitions targets threats accommodate variety projects; (3) developing critical linkages complementary (e.g., structured decision-making, spatial planning tools); (4) clearly distinguishing rankings prioritization given expert opinion versus testing hypotheses gain mechanistic understanding cause effect; (5) rapid assessment discern when should invest cost fully plan OS. call both academics practitioners engage with one another benefit training, cross-project learning action.