The Caribbean Landscape Conservation Cooperative (CLCC) Steering Committee (SC) recently made two landmark decisions providing direction for collaborative conservation efforts. The SC agreed to pursue landscape conservation design (LCD) as a major emphasis of collaborative work and they agreed to adopt a values-focused, structured decision-making (SDM) process to guide conservation design development and implementation for the CLCC. Developing both a strategic plan and an implementation approach using a values focused LCD framework was expected to have several advantages. This effort aimed to complement existing conservation efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands conducted by federal, state, and NGO organizations. This approach focused on the values and priorities of organizations that are partners of the CLCC. One of the products of the LCD effort was spatially-explicit mapped information (geologic, ecologic, socio-economic, climate, and vulnerabilities and threats) served via a web-based interface - the Caribbean Atlas for Management and Planning Options (el CAMPO). Geospatial information were developed and delivered with the guiding principle that managers, decision-makers, and the general public can make decisions that foster the accomplishment of the values, priorities, and objectives that lie at the heart of the CLCC LCD project. The Southeast Climate Science Center supported the CLCC's strategic planning exercises to accomplish these tasks.
