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Accelerating Cooperative Conservation as a way of Doing Business: Building Capacity, Skills, and Practices Across Organizations
The shared wisdom of the public and private sectors--non-profits, the business community, government agencies, Tribes, community groups, private landowners and interested citizens--needs to be effectively engaged for cooperative conservation to flourish and endure. This session will elicit suggestions on building capacity, skills and practices that advance cooperative conservation.
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Building Successful Partnerships
Strong and sustainable partnerships represent the foundation of every successful cooperative conservation endeavor. Participants will identify key principles for building trust and offer individual suggestions to integrate partnerships into conservation efforts. Tools for successful partnerships, case study presentations from Day One of the conference and personal experience will serve as the basis for discussion.
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Expanding the Role of Tribes, States and Communities in Cooperative Conservation
Nonfederal participation is vital to the development and implementation of sound environmental conservation. This discussion will provide a forum for conferees to explore ways, such as shared stewardship and innovative management practices, to expand the roles of tribes, states and local communities as partners with Federal agencies.
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Improving Certainty and Incentives for Stakeholders
Generating stakeholder participation is crucial to the successful completion of cooperative conservation projects. This session seeks to identify and improve existing incentives and mechanisms for providing certainty in conservation efforts by exploring opportunities for improving and developing policies and programs across government, business, private and non-profit sectors.
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Infrastructure Projects: Collaborative Partnerships for Successful Outcomes
Government agencies at all levels are engaged in infrastructure development and management that requires substantive communication and cooperation with communities, non-governmental organizations and the public for successful outcomes. A wide range of public infrastructure types are involved: transportation, facilities, utilities, and many other forms of physical infrastructure. Session participants will identify cross-cutting themes, propose collaborative approaches and discuss policies, processes and legislative solutions.
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Managing Diverse Resource Demands on America’s Public Lands: A Cooperative Approach to Improving Conservation
Growing demands on finite natural resources increase the need for careful management of diverse uses. This session will address multiple use conflicts, cooperative resolution, and shared decision strategies. Conferees will explore collaborative approaches to improving use compatibility and suggest solutions to the obstacles inherent in potentially inconsistent resource demands. Examples may include the relationship between mineral development and habitat conservation, motorized and non-motorized recreation, irrigation and fisheries needs.
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Measuring Success of Cooperative Conservation Efforts
Setting common goals and measuring and monitoring the results of cooperative conservation efforts are essential, not only to substantiate the merits of a project, but for purposes of adaptive management as well. This session will provide a forum for conferees to explore collaborative approaches, and discuss policies, processes and legislative solutions for optimizing cooperative conservation efforts.
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Reaching Across Boundaries to Promote Shared Governance
A fundamental hurdle facing many cooperative conservation projects is that jurisdictional and political boundaries oftentimes do not coincide with landscape realities. Complex ecological issues are requiring more sophisticated landscape-level responses from society. This discussion will explore the strategies needed for shared governance to achieve conservation and economic benefits for communities through inclusive and adaptive structures.
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Using Science and Technology to Reach Cooperative Conservation Goals<
Science and technology play a critical role in successful cooperative conservation efforts. This discussion will provide a venue to identify the ways science and technology can be used to inform stakeholder decisions. In addition, conferees will explore new approaches to streamlining and improving the development and application of scientific and technological tools.
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