Chavez Veronica Veronica.Chavez@hnee.de Geyer J Reichle S Gerold Gerhard Ibisch P L 2012 Conservation Projects (ConPro) data base from The Nature Conservancy and others about the protected areas with analyzed Conservation Action Plans (CAP) before 2009 (Appendix 1) and after 2009 (Appendix 2) dataset https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.793227 2012-10-28T19:45:26 Chavez Veronica Veronica.Chavez@hnee.de Geyer J Reichle S Gerold Gerhard Ibisch P L submitted Is Conservation Action Planning (CAP) adapting to climate change? Environmental Management It is widely recognized that climate change poses significant challenges to the conservation of biodiversity. The need of dealing with relatively rapid and uncertain environmental change calls for the enhancement of adaptive capacity of both biodiversity and conservation management systems. Under the hypothesis that most of the conventional biodiversity conservation tools do not sufficiently stimulate a dynamic protected area management, which takes rapid environmental change into account, we evaluated almost 900 of The Nature Conservancy's site-based conservation action plans. These were elaborated before a so-called climate clinic in 2009, an intensive revision of existing plans and a climate change training of the planning teams. We also compare these results with plans elaborated after the climate clinic. Before 2009, 20% of the CAPs employed the term “climate change” in their description of the site viability, and 45% identified key ecological attributes that are related to climate. 8% of the conservation strategies were directly or indirectly related to climate change adaptation. After 2009, a significantly higher percentage of plans took climate change into account. Our data show that many planning teams face difficulties in integrating climate change in their management and planning. However, technical guidance and concrete training can facilitate management teams learning processes. Arising new tools of adaptive conservation management that explicitly incorporate options for handling future scenarios, vulnerability analyses and risk management into the management process have the potential of further making protected area management more proactive and robust against change. Chavez Veronica Veronica.Chavez@hnee.de et al. 2012 Is Conservation Action Planning (CAP) adapting to climate change? other hdl:10013/epic.40145.d001 not specified 74.6 CC-BY-3.0 Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ pdf-format, other version links to file in *.docx format supplement citable author27272 author32867 author43142 author43143 author43144 author43145 journal5053 license101 ref37554 ref51145 topotype1