{"id":17713,"date":"2010-05-13T17:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-13T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/demonstration-of-ecosystem-assessment-and-reporting-tool-by-steve-schill-of-the-nature-conservancy\/"},"modified":"2010-05-13T17:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T17:16:02","slug":"demonstration-of-ecosystem-assessment-and-reporting-tool-by-steve-schill-of-the-nature-conservancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/eco-system\/demonstration-of-ecosystem-assessment-and-reporting-tool-by-steve-schill-of-the-nature-conservancy.php","title":{"rendered":"Demonstration of Ecosystem Assessment and Reporting Tool by Steve Schill of The Nature Conservancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Date:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <span>Thursday, January 27, 2011<\/span>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Demonstration of Ecosystem Assessment and Reporting Tool by Steve Schill of The Nature Conservancy (January 27, 2011 at 2 pm US EST\/11 am US PST).<\/strong>&nbsp; The Ecosystem Assessment and Reporting (EAR) tool is a decision-support tool that synthesizes biodiversity, socioeconomic and protected area datasets and provides reports and maps for prioritizing conservation action on the ground.&nbsp; The EAR tool has been designed around The Nature Conservancy\u2019s (TNC) approach for calculating \u201cEffective Conservation\u201d (Higgins et al, 2007).&nbsp; This approach is a way of measuring progress towards achieving established conservation goals for ecosystems.&nbsp; An ecosystem achieves effective conservation when the biodiversity of an ecosystem is expected to persist as a result of conservation actions.&nbsp; The framework for calculating the level of effective conservation uses three measures in combination: 1) Viability Status - the biological potential for a given ecosystem to persist (e.g. ecosystem size, condition, and landscape context); 2) Threats Status - the degree of anticipated negative impact (i.e. socio-economic activity) to a given ecosystem (e.g. severity, scope of threat); and 3) Conservation Management Status - the likelihood that management activities will secure biodiversity and allow it to persist within a protected area (e.g. intent, tenure, and effective management potential).&nbsp; While methods may vary on how to calculate an ecosystem\u2019s viability, threat status, and management needs, the design of the EAR tool provides a common framework for conservation decision makers to obtain direction on where to implement critical management actions.&nbsp; The tool is available in both Internet-based Server and ArcGIS 9.3 ArcToolbox Desktop versions. Learn more about the tool at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eartool.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.eartool.org<\/a>.&nbsp; Register for this webinar at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www1.gotomeeting.com\/register\/951703345\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www1.gotomeeting.com\/register\/951703345<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date:&nbsp; Thursday, January 27, 2011 Demonstration of Ecosystem Assessment and Reporting Tool by Steve Schill of The Nature Conservancy (January 27, 2011 at 2 pm US EST\/11 am US PST).&nbsp; The Ecosystem Assessment and Reporting (EAR) tool is a decision-support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/eco-system\/demonstration-of-ecosystem-assessment-and-reporting-tool-by-steve-schill-of-the-nature-conservancy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco-system"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}