Delivering Systematic and Repeatable Area-Based Conservation Assessments: From Global to Local Scales

Diego Juffe-Bignoli, Andrea Mandrici, Giacomo Delli, Aidin Niamir and Grégoire Dubois ()
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Diego Juffe-Bignoli: Durrel Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE), Marlowe Building Canterbury, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7NR, UK
Andrea Mandrici: Arcadia SIT S.r.l., 27029 Vigevano, PV, Italy
Giacomo Delli: Arcadia SIT S.r.l., 27029 Vigevano, PV, Italy
Aidin Niamir: Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute, 60325 Frankfurt, Germany
Grégoire Dubois: European Commission, Joint Research Centre, 21027 Ispra, VA, Italy

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-14

Abstract: Protected and conserved areas are a key area-based strategy to address the biodiversity and climate change crises. Indicators are fundamental to understanding performance over time. The Digital Observatory for Protected Areas (DOPA) was born in 2013 as a set of open-access web services and applications to be used to assess, monitor, and report on protected and conserved areas. For over a decade, it has delivered over 50 indicators to support policy processes, national and regional governments, and practitioners. DOPA has also developed a versatile and efficient back-end approach that is widely applicable in other area-based conservation contexts. Here, we describe the methods and workflows behind DOPA’s back end and provide examples of policy relevant questions it can answer. We discuss the key advantages and limitations of this systematic and replicable approach and explore the use of this back-end architecture to inform progress in area-based conservation targets for the following decades. This approach, embedded in multiple services provided by the Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity of the European Commission (KCBD), can also support the implementation and monitoring of area-based targets of the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework at international, regional, and national levels.

Keywords: protected areas indicators; biodiversity; spatial planning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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