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ABSTRACT: Conservation assessment and planning are incredibly complex activities, especially now with the imperative to incorporate climate change and other human objectives for the use of land and resources. Software tools play a key role in supporting incorporation of data and expert knowledge, assessment of resource condition and conflicts with other objectives, conservation prioritization, spatial planning, and ongoing plan implementation and adaptive management. Most organizations rely on a small group of experts and one or two software tools to conduct this work which is often not reproducible or extensible to the broaders set of practitioners that should be involved. Recent initiatives in the Gulf region and by LCCs have generated many new tools but identifying which tools to use has been a challenge for practitioners. This session will present results from an initiative to map a core set of existing tools to a conservation planning work flow that would comprise a conservation planning toolkit. This session will lay out the workflow to be supported by the toolkit and an initial selection of tools. Needs for guidance and training to support application of the toolkit by a broader group of practitioners will also be addressed.
Wednesday November 1, 2017 10:40am - 11:00am EDT
Carroll Ford