Development handholds systematic approach for problem types

Attention is primarily focused on the strategies:

1. Increasing habitats;
2. connecting habitats;
3. improving the quality of habitats.

The assessment framework provides insight into what is needed and how priorities can be set in order to achieve national and international targets for the protection of species. It shows whether protection measures can be limited to the Netherlands Nature Network (NNN) or whether they are also necessary in agricultural areas or in the city. It also helps to visualize the tasks at the provincial level. The research results in a prototype of the assessment framework, which has been tested and (partially) developed in a number of cases. Proposals are also made on how this developed assessment framework can be built into the Model for Nature Policy (MNP) – a decision support tool that is currently used to develop and evaluate nature policy – so that this model becomes an instrument for both generating and systematically testing strategies for species protection.

In this project, we develop an assessment framework that should help in choosing the most effective (combination of) strategies to sustainably protect endangered animal species. The assessment framework provides insight into what is needed and how priorities can be set in order to achieve national and international targets for the protection of species.