Dawson, Neil

Guidebook for assessing and improving social equity in marine conservation

2025 Andrachuk, Mark | Bennett, Nathan J. | Blythe, Jessica | Claudet, Joachim | Dawson, Neil | Finkbeiner, Elena | Fitzpatrick, Juno | Franks, Phil | Gill, David A. | Gurney, Georgina G. | Jack-Kadıoğlu, Timur | Jupiter, Stacy | Lau, Jacqueline | Lopes, Priscila F.M. | Mahajan, Shauna L. | Muhl, Ella-Kari | Naggea, Josheena | Roumbedakis, Katina | Selim, Samiya | Singh. Gerald G. | Strand, Mia | Sullivan-Wiley, Kira | Villasante, Sebastian |

This guidebook is based on an understanding that social equity refers to fairness and justice with respect to the ways that people are recognised, treated, or impacted by conservation initiatives. It is also grounded on a common framework for assessing equity that includes six dimensions: recognitional, procedural, management, environmental, distributional, and contextual and structural equity.

Review of methods for assessing the social impacts of conservation

2023 Suich, Helen | Dawson, Neil |

This report first reviews the available methods, tools and approaches that have been designed to assess and document the social impacts of conservation interventions, and second, offers guidance for practitioners on good practice for designing studies and facilitating processes for such assessments. The focus of this report is on tools that can be used for assessing ex post impacts – i.e.

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