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  • Environmental Management
  • Organizational Learning

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  • Learning from failure is crucial for progress in many sectors, but not yet standardized in conservation.
  • A lack of a common framework hinders the identification and analysis of root causes of project failures in conservation.
  • Existing conservation practices struggle to systematically learn from unsuccessful initiatives.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a comprehensive and standardized taxonomy of root causes of failure in conservation projects.
  • To facilitate improved identification, analysis, and learning from conservation project failures.
  • To address barriers limiting conservation practitioners' ability to learn from failure and establish a learning culture.

Main Methods:

  • Solicited real-life examples of conservation projects that failed.
  • Identified underlying root causes of failure from these examples.
  • Developed a 3-tier taxonomy of failure causes, tested by conservation practitioners for gaps and redundancies.

Main Results:

  • A comprehensive, 3-tier taxonomy of conservation project failure root causes was successfully developed and validated.
  • Testing revealed no significant gaps or redundancies in the proposed taxonomy.
  • Analysis indicated that certain root causes are more frequently encountered than others and are associated with specific conservation actions.

Conclusions:

  • The developed taxonomy provides a standardized tool for identifying and analyzing conservation project failures.
  • This framework can significantly improve the ability of conservation practitioners to learn from failures.
  • Implementation of the taxonomy can contribute to establishing a robust culture of learning from failure within the conservation sector.