{"id":33,"date":"2024-03-07T16:51:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T16:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/center-for-biodiversity-outcomes\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:26:16","slug":"tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalfutures.asu.edu\/center-for-biodiversity-outcomes\/tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Tools for conservation decision making<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We design decision support tools that facilitate an assessment of the impact of institutional choices on biodiversity outcomes. Our goal is to provide various decision makers with a way to estimate the biodiversity impacts of potential actions, and to explore the change in actions required to achieve desired biodiversity targets. We envision tools would be broadly used by community, government, and private sector decision-makers to identify and implement interventions that maximize biodiversity conservation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out our decision tools below, or head to our Handbooks <\/a>page for further information on decision science and actionable research. <\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Endangered Species Discovery Explorer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowledge-Action Partner Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conservation Intervention Costing Portal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Optimizing Agroforestry Expansion in the Peruvian Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tools for Measuring, Modeling, and Valuing Ecosystem Services<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Non-native Species Site Finder<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Endangered Species Recovery Explorer<\/h4>\n\n\n
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The Center for Biodiversity Outcomes partnered with the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center<\/a> and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service<\/a> to develop a tool to compare different funding allocation strategies for actions to recover endangered species. Together, they created a tool called the Endangered Species Recovery Explorer. This work was motivated, in part, by recognition from USFWS of past critiques of its recovery allocation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Recovery Explorer can be used to evaluate potential consequences of alternative resource allocation strategies. For example, the tool can be used to examine how different allocation protocols, under the same budget constraints, affect the number of species recovered and the number of species for which extinction is averted (broken down by geographic region and taxa); how different funding levels affect recovery outcomes; how different values-based inputs (e.g., desires for taxonomic representation or regional parity in funding) influence optimal allocation and recovery outcomes; and the effect of uncertainty in technical inputs (e.g., extinction risk, cost) on allocation and outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Recovery Explorer tool is designed to be exploratory, not prescriptive, allowing decision makers to examine alternative approaches to resource allocation by making the important components of the decision process transparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the tool was launched, it has received notorious media attention \u2013 including mention in Science<\/a> and The Economist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Knowledge-Action Partnership Scorecard<\/h4>\n\n\n
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The KAP Scorecard is a tool designed to assess and improve partnerships between organizations that serve to link conservation knowledge with decision-making, and consists of a series of questions that prompt the user to reflect on their particular partnership, the structures and processes that underpin it, and the larger context. Responses to the survey are then converted to numerical scores to facilitate discussions between partners to identify and address areas of opportunity.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The scorecard is most appropriate for assessing partnerships between a small number of organizations, typically just two. While the questions are geared to assessing more formal partnerships, newer and\/or more informal partnerships can receive valuable insights especially while individuals are still in the process of figuring out future directions. The tool is most insightful if individuals from both partner organizations complete the assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are interested in using the tool for research purposes, please reach out to Dr. Chris Barton<\/a> for more details. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To assess your partnership:<\/p>\n\n\n\n