Towards future-oriented conservation: Managing protected areas in an era of climate change.
Management of protected areas must adapt to climate impacts, and prepare for ongoing ecological transformation. Future-Proofing Conservation is a dialogue-based, multi-stakeholder learning process that supports conservation managers to consider the implications of climate change for governance and management. It takes participants through a series of conceptual transitions to identify new management options that are robust to a range of possible biophysical futures, and steps that they can take now to prepare for ecological transformation. We outline the Future-Proofing Conservation process, and demonstrate its application in a pilot programme in Colombia. This process can be applied and adapted to a wide range of climate adaptation contexts, to support practitioners in developing positive ways forward for management and decision-making. By acknowledging scientific uncertainty, considering social values, and rethinking the rules that shape conservation governance, participants can identify new strategies towards "future-oriented conservation" over the long term.
['van Kerkhoff|Lorrae|L|http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0247-1511', 'Munera|Claudia|C|', 'Dudley|Nigel|N|', 'Guevara|Oscar|O|', 'Wyborn|Carina|C|', 'Figueroa|Carolina|C|', 'Dunlop|Michael|M|', 'Hoyos|Melissa Abud|MA|', 'Castiblanco|Javier|J|', 'Becerra|Laura|L|']
D057231:Climate Change D003105:Colombia D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources D003657:Decision Making D004463:Ecology
Ecological transformation Colombia Climate adaptation Conservation governance Futures thinking Science–policy interface