Social Networks for Coastal Conservation

1. Social Networks for Coastal Conservation Ken Vance-Borland The Conservation Planning Institute June Holley Network Weaving

2. A Conservation Plan for the Klamath-Siskiyou Ecoregion Reed F. Noss, James R. Strittholt, Kenneth Vance-Borland, Carlos Carroll, and Pamela Frost 1999. Natural Areas Journal 19:392-411

3. A Multicriteria Assessment of the Irreplaceability and Vulnerability of Sites the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Reed Noss, Carlos Carroll, Ken Vance-Borland, and George Wuerthner 2002. Conservation Biology 16(4): 895-908

4. An Ecosystem Spatial Analysis forHaida Gwaii, Central Coast, andNorth Coast British Columbia The Nature Conservancy of Canada Conservation Science Inc. Round River Conservation Studies Min. of Sustainable Resource Management Min. of Water, Air and Land Protection Living Oceans Society The Nature Conservancy (U.S.) http://www.citbc.org

5. “The biodiversity planning component should be integrated into an implementation framework and not vice versa” Cowling and Pressey 2003, Biological Conservation 112:1-13

6. Great Sand Hills Regional Environmental Study Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment, U. of Regina, U. of Central Florida, U. of Saskatchewan, The Conservation Planning Institute, and others

7. Our proposal Minister’s recommendation 30% 60%

8. Paired Study: Queensland and Oregon

9. Main Objectives of the Paired Study • Improved planning for the coastal zone • Understanding stakeholders and engaging with them • New interactive tools for practitioners • Facilitating implementation at all stages of the planning process • Identify generic lessons and special regional circumstances • Subsequent adaptation of planning approach to regions with different social, economic and political characteristics

11. Knight et al. 2006, Conservation Biology 20:408-419

12. Inkjet Quality, Hewlett-Packard, Corvallis, Oregon Sandow and Allen 2005, Reflections 6:1-14

13. Agro-foresters in four villages in Ghana. Isaac et al. 2007, Ecology and Society 12(2):32

14. 62 civil-society organizations that worked to protect the Stockholm National Urban Park. Ernstson et al. 2008, Ecology and Society (in press)

15. Information sharing among seven rural communities of the Loreto Bay National Marine Park, Gulf of California, Mexico. Ramirez-Sanchez 2007

16. Positive Deviance MRSA Prevention Network for Pittsburg, PA, Veterans Hospitals Holley 2007. (MRSA: methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus )

17. Background • Much reading of network and complexity research and practice • 20 years - worked with others to experiment in building a regional entrepreneurship network where 100s of organizations worked together in 18 counties to create new infrastructure to support businesses and develop regional strategies

18. Why Networks? • Complex ecosystems require an equally complex set of humans continually engaging around conservation planning, policy and implementation • Network maps enable people to focus on relationships and more explicitly engage the diversity needed for good planning

19. Question How to embed network mapping into conservation activities so that people in the network - not experts or researchers - can easily use it in an ongoing fashion?

20. Smart Network Analyzer • Very easy to use, small, java-based software to generate maps and a few metrics • Web survey streamlines data gathering • Available at very low cost to projects Ken or June get involved in

21. Network Mapping Process

22. Hub and spoke? Clusters? Elephant tails? Network Analysis - Elements Elephant Tails

23. Network Analysis -Stages

24. Metrics • Connector: connect parts of the network that otherwise would not be connected. • Awareness: potential awareness of what is happening in the network. • Influence: looks at both direct and indirect links pointing to a node. • Integration: good measure of network health Krebs and Holley 2004, Networkweaving.com

25. Metrics & Outcomes

26. Network Weaving Convening Connecting Supporting Self- Organization

28. Lincoln County Pilot Social Network Study Area: 250,000 ha Population: 46,000

29. Survey Questions • Please list key individuals with whom you have collaborated on sustainable natural resource projects or issues during the past two years. • Who do you rely on most for accurate information or advice? • Who do you look to for new or innovative ideas? • Who are most critical to the success of policy initiatives? • Who has contributed most to sustainable natural resource management?

30. Demonstration:Smart Network AnalyzerUsing the Lincoln County Sustainable Natural Resources Network

31. “I’ll start introducing unconnected people, and trying to work more with the highly influential ones.” Wayne Hoffman, Mid-Coast Watershed Council coordinator

32. A Conservation Social Network on the Queensland Coast: the Burdekin Catchment

33. Early Stage Burdekin Catchment Sustainable Resources Network Map

34. Next Steps for the Paired Study Social Networks Project: • Complete the Lincoln County and Burdekin Catchment pilot projects • Expand to the entire Oregon and Queensland study areas • Consultations to inform our conservation planning analysis, modeling, and outputs

35. Other Social Network Projects:Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea With Freda Paiva, The Nature Conservancy, Kimbe Bay Field Office

36. Other Social Network Projects:Vanuatu With Chris Bartlett, James Cook University And Nguna-Pele Marine Protected Area

37. Other Social Network Projects:Gulf of California With Jorge Alvarez-Romero, James Cook University

38. Ken Vance-Borland The Conservation Planning Institute Corvallis, Oregon kenvb@consplan.net www.conservationplanninginstitute.org June Holley Network Weaving Athens, Ohio june@networkweaving.com www.networkweaving.com