This course will be the first of two core courses for the four
new majors – Integrative Conservation and Anthropology,
Integrative Conservation and Ecology, Integrative Conservation
and Forestry and Natural Resources, and Integrative Conservation
and Geography. 

After completing this course, students will be aware of the
valuable conservation insights that emerge not only from
conservation biology or other natural sciences, but also from 
the social sciences and humanities.  They will have an 
appreciation of the theoretical and practical obstacles to 
collaboration across disciplines and fields of practice and 
will be equipped with perspectives and tools to help them 
bridge those divides.

I.	Overview of theoretical and methodological approaches to
integrative conservation
a.	Barriers and obstacles to collaborative work
i.	Across disciplines within the University
ii.	Between academics and practitioners
b.	Innovative approaches
II.	MacArthur Foundation-funded Advancing Conservation in a
Social Context Integrative Framework
a.	Socio-ecological context
b.	Lenses
i.	Values and valuation
1.	What are the key values that orient the decisions and 
actions of the different actors involved?
2.	How are these values measured and aggregated, and how 
are different kinds of values (and values at different scales)
prioritized and compared?
3.	In what ways do current means of measuring, comparing,
aggregating, and prioritizing values highlight or obscure
differences in the way values are understood, experienced or
measured?
ii.	Process and governance
1.	What processes are available for improved 
identification and negotiation of trade-offs, and how do they 
include (or exclude) different perspectives and values?
2.	What existing institutions and structures of governance 
are important in shaping the way trade-offs are currently 
identified and negotiated?
3.	Are processes for identifying and negotiating trade-offs
supported by existing governments and institutions? (Do existing
governments and institutions have the capacity and willingness 
to enforce decisions that are made?)
iii.	Power and inequality
1.	 What are the explicit and implicit forms of power 
(including the power to frame the issue) that influence 
decisions and outcomes?
2.	What forms of inequality (wealth, knowledge, capacity, 
etc.) are relevant for understanding and negotiating trade-offs?
3.	 Who pays the costs of trade-offs, and who benefits? 
Are there hidden agendas at work? Are there ways in which 
complex problems are being simplified that benefit some actors 
at the expense of others?
III.	Integrative conservation: From theory to Practice