Across the globe there are numerous examples of community-led conservation initiatives that have grown from a handful of communities to larger areas and more communities, transforming landscapes and people’s relationships with their environment. These examples hold key lessons for the design and implementation of other community-led conservation initiatives. But as of yet, the factors that influence how and why such initiatives scale remain unclear. Our goal is to use comparative case studies to distill these factors so that the scale of conservation initiatives better matches that of the problems posed by biodiversity loss and climate change.

 Current efforts include:

1.  Identifying scaling opportunities and bottlenecks in community-based conservation initiatives

2.  Adoption and scaling of agroforestry in India and Brazil

3.  The hidden cost of conservation abandonment

Collaborators 

Abha Joglekar, Imperial College London

Matthew Clark, Imperial College London

Michael B. Mascia, Duke University

Morena Mills, Imperial College London

Olivia Crowe, Imperial College London

Thomas Pienkowski, Kent University