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Ecosystem Research Topics: Conservation Practice
Conservation Practice research is carried out by Dr Paul Jepson. His research focuses on the following three strands of the conservation movement:
- History of the conservation movement
- Attitudes and values towards nature and conservation policy and practice
- Accountability and performance of environmental NGOs.
Research Projects
A market-led conservation response to the domestic bird-trade in Indonesia
This 3-year project funded under a Darwin Initiative Grant commenced in July 2005 and aims to reduce the conservation impacts of the Indonesian bird-keeping passion through developing a strategic framework for market-led mechanisms that creates incentives to substitute wild-caught birds with captive-bred alternatives. Working through local bird groups and bird-breeder networks in Java, it will lead an evidence-based policy and citizen (bird-keepers) dialogue on this traditional pastime to initiate a grass-roots transformation that promotes sustainability, the formation of new bird-breeding enterprises and raises awareness of biodiversity conservation issues among the Javan bird-keeping fraternity. The main project partners are BirdLife Indonesia and ACNielsen Indonesia
Growth, values and performance: helping social enterprises get the balance right
This project is located at the Skoll Centre for Social Enterprise at the Said Business School and aims to initiate a programme in Oxford dedicated to improving the performance of social enterprises (including charities, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and other values-driven organisations). It intends to develop frameworks, insights and tools to help SEs respond to the emerging debates on organisational governance, accountability, transparency and performance and to operationalize systems that will deliver meaningful improvements in each of these areas. Research partners are Dr Alex Nicholls (Skoll) and Alex Jacobs (Mango)