The BESAFE Toolkit

The results from the research carried out in the project were used to produce a series of case study and thematic briefs.  Each brief aims to explain projects results in a certain case study or on a certain subject to an interested public not necessarily familiar with biodiversity policy and argumentation. Together they form the BESAFE toolkit. The briefs are also available through the BESAFE web tool to which we refer if you need guidance finding the right one. Separate briefs at can be downloaded as pdf using the links below. The entire toolkit, consisting of all briefs and the contents list is also downloadable as a single pdf volume. 

 

The toolkit briefs

1. Case study briefs:

• Arguments involving invasive alien species: European policy and scientific opinions 
• The predators, the prey and the arguments: Contested wildland management for large mammals in Norway
• Catchment Management in the UK: a support for biodiversity and ecosystem services
• Arguing for effective biodiversity conservation in the Lower Danube Catchment, Romania
• To protect or to kill? Polarising dynamics of public debate on foxes and wild boar in Flanders 
• Tidal Turbine Technology within a Marine Protected Area in Northern Ireland, UK 
• Conflicts in the protection and management of the Polish Białowieża Forest 
• Conflicts between the many uses of Finnish peatlands
• Arguments in Andalusia protected areas: the integration of traditional livestock practices
• Arguing for biodiversity in a Local Biodiversity Action Plan area, UK  
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services as Offsets for Urban Land Use Planning in Finland
• Favouring Biodiversity in Natura 2000 areas  
• Arguing for implementation of Natura 2000 in Hungary  
• Argumentation for Natura 2000 in The Netherlands
• Uses and abuses of economic arguments in the development and governance of synthetic biology

 

2. Thematic briefs 

 

 a)      Briefs providing background knowledge

• Biodiversity conservation using ideas and instruments of species protection
• Biodiversity conservation using ideas and instruments of habitat and area protection networks
• What is an argument?
• Classification of values of biodiversity
• Methods for assessing the economic values of biodiversity and ecosystem services
• How biodiversity contributes to ecosystem services

 

b)      Briefs increasing general understanding of how argumentation works

• Benefits of biodiversity
• Argument as a process: dialogue, trust and credibility in biodiversity decision-making
• Benefits of bundling arguments for biodiversity  
• Conditions for an effective argument
• Governance of ecosystem services
• Recreation and biodiversity

 

c)       Briefs providing direct practical advice

• Communicating biodiversity arguments: strategies and techniques
• Developing our capacity to build effective arguments
• Engaging stakeholders in biodiversity discussions: everything placed on the table
• How do we determine if an argument is effective
• How to construct an argument? Tailor to the audience
• Selecting arguments through the policy cycle
• Selecting the right frame for your goal