BECOME is a Biodiversa+ research project which takes UNESCO biosphere reserves as model systems to understand how to manage synergies and trade-offs between conservation objectives and human development through pluralistic and inclusive landscape-scale approaches to conservation.
Our project combines diverse methodologies from natural and social science to evaluate effectiveness of biosphere reserve management, harnessing existing data, including long-term governance and biodiversity data, to analyze effectiveness across temporal and spatial scales. We work with local biosphere reserve stakeholders and rights holders to capture and develop context-dependent but generalizable metrics which are adapted to diverse biosphere reserve objectives, facilitate the collaborative adaptive management learning feedback loop, and reflect synergies between conservation and development objectives.
