Abstract Monitoring and evaluation is an essential stage of conservation implementation, offering a wide variety of benefits including the ability to engage in informed adaptive management. Understanding the relationship among actions, outputs, and outcomes can inform on factors acting to facilitate or hinder conservation success. Assessing these relationships is particularly important for projects with both social and ecological objectives given that they likely operate through a more complex theory of change. Performance measurement studies that assess both ecological and social variables can offer an informative and cost-effective evaluation method for such projects, but simultaneous social-ecological evaluation is rarely implemented. Using the case study of the Marine Turtle Conservation Project in North Cyprus, we aimed to demonstrate how social-ecological performance measure protocols can aid sea turtle conservation efforts in adaptive management through informing on connections among project actions, outputs, and outcomes. Our study employed a mixed-methods performance measurement approach integrating three distinct data sources: 31 project publications, the project’s long-term dataset on sea turtle ecology, and 26 semi-structured interviews with key informants including residents, fishermen, local business owners, and project staff. The results indicated that the project has generated a wide range of social, economic, and ecological outcomes. Two primary connections among social and ecological factors emerged: 1) bridging the research-implementation gap through directing research into policy action and 2) enhanced operational capacity and achievement of ecological outcomes through extensively engaging with the community and generating local economic benefits. Insufficient government enforcement and a lack of widespread behavioural change on turtle nesting beaches were primary barriers. This study highlights the benefits of multi-disciplinary conservation and demonstrates the insight that can be gained from rapid, social-ecological performance measurement approaches. Channelling such information back into conservation through adaptive management can serve to both increase the achievement of ecological goals and improve human wellbeing.

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探索北塞浦路斯 25 年海龟保护所产生的多种产出和成果之间的联系

摘要 监测和评估是保护实施的一个重要阶段，提供了广泛的好处，包括参与知情适应性管理的能力。了解行动、产出和结果之间的关系可以为促进或阻碍保护成功的因素提供信息。评估这些关系对于具有社会和生态目标的项目尤其重要，因为它们可能通过更复杂的变化理论运作。评估生态和社会变量的绩效测量研究可以为此类项目提供信息丰富且具有成本效益的评估方法，但很少实施同时进行的社会生态评估。使用北塞浦路斯海龟保护项目的案例研究，我们旨在展示社会生态绩效衡量协议如何通过告知项目行动、产出和结果之间的联系来帮助海龟保护工作进行适应性管理。我们的研究采用了一种混合方法绩效衡量方法，整合了三个不同的数据源：31 份项目出版物、该项目关于海龟生态的长期数据集，以及对包括居民、渔民、当地企业主和当地企业主在内的关键知情人的 26 次半结构化访谈。项目人员。结果表明，该项目产生了广泛的社会、经济和生态成果。社会和生态因素之间出现了两个主要联系：1) 通过将研究引导到政策行动来弥合研究与实施之间的差距； 2) 通过与社区的广泛接触和产生当地经济效益，增强运营能力和生态成果的实现。政府执法不力和海龟筑巢海滩缺乏广泛的行为改变是主要障碍。这项研究强调了多学科保护的好处，并展示了可以从快速的社会生态绩效衡量方法中获得的洞察力。通过适应性管理将这些信息重新用于保护，既可以促进生态目标的实现，也可以改善人类福祉。政府执法不力和海龟筑巢海滩缺乏广泛的行为改变是主要障碍。这项研究强调了多学科保护的好处，并展示了可以从快速的社会生态绩效衡量方法中获得的洞察力。通过适应性管理将这些信息重新用于保护，既可以促进生态目标的实现，也可以改善人类福祉。政府执法不力和海龟筑巢海滩缺乏广泛的行为改变是主要障碍。这项研究强调了多学科保护的好处，并展示了可以从快速的社会生态绩效衡量方法中获得的洞察力。通过适应性管理将这些信息重新用于保护，既可以促进生态目标的实现，也可以改善人类福祉。