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Presented at the Fall 2011 Center for Collaborative Conservation (https://collaborativeconservation.org/) Special Seminar, "Collaborative Conservation in Practice: Indigenous Peoples and Conservation", September 6, 2011, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. This series focused on Indigenous Peoples and Conservation. ; Carina Wyborn is a PhD student at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University. Her dissertation is examining the interplay between science, values and action in collaborative conservation with a particular focus on large landscape connectivity conservation in Australia and North America. Carina teaches in the Human Ecology program at the Fenner School and is funded by a Land and Water Australia postgraduate scholarship and a top-up scholarship from the CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship. She is also a special advisor to the Federal Government National Wildlife Corridors Advisory Committee. Her current visit to the US was funded by a National Climate Adaptation Research Facility collaboration travel grant. ; Includes recorded speech and PowerPoint presentation. ; Large landscape 'connectivity conservation' initiatives are rapidly gaining prominence across the world. They are motivated by a desire to halt biodiversity decline and preserve ecosystem processes in the face of climate change and habitat fragmentation. At the heart of these initiatives is the motivation and ability of individuals, agencies and institutions to collaborate across multiple scales, land tenures and land uses. In a reasonably short period of time, proponents of connectivity conservation have launched the concept as front and centre in debates about climate change adaptation in conservation. The phenomenon of connectivity conservation has taken hold in Australia and there are now major connectivity initiatives in every state. Additionally, Australia is in the process of developing a National Wildlife Corridor Policy. Drawing on the concept of ecological connectivity, proponents claim to be 'connecting people' while 'connecting landscapes'. This framing intends to create a positive narrative that engages and inspires a commitment to conservation by placing small-scale interventions in a larger landscape context. This framing demonstrates the power of a science-based concept to bridge normative and scientific domains and create a space for meaningful action at the local scale. The presentation will explore how these 'science narratives' have been mobilised to create a shared imperative for collaboration. As these narratives blur the boundaries between science and values in an effort to inspire collective action, they present an interesting opportunity to examine the diffusion and interplay between science and practice in collaborative conservation.

The contemporary economic crisis (and also ecological and social crisis) calls for a new model of urban development. The international debate is today focused on the necessity of a new paradigm (Hosagrahar et al., 2016) that will define sustainable development policies and programmes: this new paradigm moves the concept of development towards a more humanistic and ecological point of view. The international debate around Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently is going to highlight the role of cultural heritage for sustainable development (United Nations, 2015a). Cultural heritage can play a critical role in the achievement of the above mentioned new humanistic and ecological paradigm of sustainable city. In this paper some indicators to evaluate cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration projects are identified, starting from case studies. The purpose of the analysis of good practices is to support the elaboration of a multidimensional matrix that can produce empirical evidence about impacts of cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration. After a particular focus on the relationship between variation of landscape and variation of wellbeing, it will present a methodological proposal to evaluate cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration projects.

The contemporary economic crisis (and also ecological and social crisis) calls for a new model of urban development. The international debate is today focused on the necessity of a new paradigm (Hosagrahar et al., 2016) that will define sustainable development policies and programmes: this new paradigm moves the concept of development towards a more humanistic and ecological point of view.
The international debate around Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently is going to highlight the role of cultural heritage for sustainable development (United Nations, 2015a).
Cultural heritage can play a critical role in the achievement of the above mentioned new humanistic and ecological paradigm of sustainable city.
In this paper some indicators to evaluate cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration projects are identified, starting from case studies.
The purpose of the analysis of good practices is to support the elaboration of a multidimensional matrix that can produce empirical evidence about impacts of cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration.
After a particular focus on the relationship between variation of landscape and variation of wellbeing, it will present a methodological proposal to evaluate cultural urban landscape conservation/regeneration projects.

This chapter was made possible by two coordinated project grants from Spain's Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness (MEC), "El uso del fuego y la conformación de los paisajes en la Montaña cantábrica y el Pirineo oriental: estudio comparado de su evolución historica y tendencias actuales" (CSO2012-39680-C02-01), awarded to the Department of Geography, Urban Studies and Land Planning, Universidad de Cantabria and "Geohistoria ambiental del fuego en el Holoceno. Patrones culturales y gestión territorial desde el inicio de la ganadería y la agricultura en la montañana Cantábrica y Pirineo," awarded to the Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CSO2012-39680-C02-02). In addition, the project was funded by the Catalan government's applied geography program, 'Grup de Geografia Aplicada' (AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya, 2014 SGR 1090). Raquel Cunill gratefully acknowledges the Government of the Principality of Andorra, for the research grant on Andorran Issues, APTA007-AND/2014.

Across the West, corporate timber companies continue to divest lands as their real estate values increase. This transition presents a great opportunity for conservation. In 2004, working with partners through the Blackfoot Challenge, The Nature Conservancy purchased roughly 89,000 acres from Plum Creek Timber Company in the upper Blackfoot watershed. In 2008, The Conservancy purchased another 310,586 acres throughout the Southern Crown of the Continent in what is known as the Montana Legacy Project. The Clearwater-Blackfoot Project builds on this earlier work with communities, organizations, and government agencies to conserve northwest Montana's natural and cultural heritage. In January, The Nature Conservancy purchased 117,152 acres of Plum Creek lands in the lower Blackfoot River Valley, constituting all of the company's remaining holdings in the watershed. Clearwater-Blackfoot Project lands provide critical habitat for threatened Canada lynx and grizzly bears and are regularly traversed by wolverines. The streams provide habitat for Westslope cutthroat and bull trout while the forests, meadows and wetlands support a diversity of birds and other wildlife species. Generations of people have worked and played in these mountains and high valleys. While decades of timber harvest have left the forest in need of rest and restoration, this area can continue to contribute to future resource economies. Ultimately, these lands will be conveyed into a mix of federal, state and private ownership following a community-based process with the Blackfoot Challenge to identify the best possible permanent outcomes for these lands for both conservation and the rural way of life.

Spillover impacts pose challenges for the management of protected areas (PAs). The issue of external threats encroaching on PAs has long been recognized, but a corollary—that PA conservation can increase costs borne by neighboring governments or landowners—is less well appreciated. In some contexts, basic principles of fairness and cooperation suggest that PA users should help pay these costs. Several countries have developed mechanisms for distributing the costs of spillover impacts to PA users, but not the United States. Here, we investigate whether and how US park visitors could help address one type of spillover, the need for wildlife conservation efforts beyond park boundaries, using a case study of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE). We examine a "conservation fee" recently proposed in the Wyoming legislature, along with tax-based alternatives. After exploring some costs of wildlife conservation in GYE, we estimate that a fee of up to $10 per vehicle could generate up to $13 million annually, and tax-based approaches considerably more. We consider legal, political, and governance challenges, and ways to mitigate them. The GYE could serve as a demonstration site for visitor funding of cooperative, large-landscape conservation, for potential future expansion in the US and beyond.