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Research

Research

Website

http://www.tradeoffs.org

Summary

Advancing Conservation in a Social Context: Working in a World of Trade-offs (ACSC) is a five-year international, interdisciplinary research initiative supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. It is focused on reconsidering the underlying assumptions about how the conservation field attempts to reach its goals. The program of research will contribute to improved conservation practice through a better understanding of the conditions under which natural resources are sustained over time, at a meaningful scale and in complex social-ecological contexts.

The ACSC research initiative has been created to investigate the complex trade-offs that exist between human well-being and biodiversity conservation goals in specific places, and between conservation and other economic, political and social agendas at local, national and international scales. ACSC's overall goal is improving the ability of key actors to identify, analyze and negotiate future conservation and development trade-offs.

Personnel

Funding

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Timeline

January 2007 — December 2010