Abstract
Rissman, A. R., J. Owley, A. W. L’Roe, A. Wilson Morris, and C. B. Wardropper. 2017. Public access to spatial data on private-land conservation. Ecology and Society 22(2):24. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09330-220224
Highlights
Reliable and accessible information is necessary for effective environmental governance (Cash et al 2006, Lemos and Agrawal 2006, Doremus 2008), including the governance of private lands (Morris and Rissman 2010, Owley 2015)
We focus on geospatial data related to privateland conservation, which has become a contested arena in which the tensions between privacy and transparency are shaping and limiting public access to maps of conserved lands
U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) does not have consistent spatial records on Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) and lands conserved through habitat mitigation
Summary
Reliable and accessible information is necessary for effective environmental governance (Cash et al 2006, Lemos and Agrawal 2006, Doremus 2008), including the governance of private lands (Morris and Rissman 2010, Owley 2015). Information in the era of big data entails potential risks, including the loss of privacy for landowners working with conservation entities such as government agencies and nonprofit organizations (Brin 1999). We focus on geospatial data related to privateland conservation, which has become a contested arena in which the tensions between privacy and transparency are shaping and limiting public access to maps of conserved lands. Despite technological advances that have enabled collection of extensive spatial data relevant to conservation, mapping of conservation actions on private lands has lagged behind mapping of protected areas in government ownership (Olmsted 2011, Baldwin and Leonard 2015). The reasons for incomplete, fragmented, or inaccessible spatial data on private-land conservation reflect the complicated politics of public information regarding private lands and the extensive capacity requirements for maintaining geospatial data
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