Policy support tool

MARXAN

Marxan is a suite of tools designed to help decision makers find good solutions to conservation planning problems. This includes free software that can be used to solve several types of planning problems and extensive documentation and examples describing a framework for approaching conservation planning. Marxan is the most frequently used conservation planning software and has been applied to hundreds of spatial conservation planning problems around the world.

Aim of the resource

Marxan provides decision support to a range of conservation planning problems, including:

  •  The design of new reserve systems
  •  reporting on the performance of existing reserve systems
  •  developing multiple-use zoning plans for natural resource management.
Requirements for using the resource NEW

All Marxan and associated software, both in the cloud and downloadable, is available free.

Potential benefits from using the resource
Marxan is the most widely used conservation planning tool supporting the design of marine and terrestrial reserves worldwide and is used by more than 1300 users in over 100 countries worldwide.
UN languages in which the resource is available
EN
Matt Watts
[email protected]
Website
http://marxan.org/
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Assessment

06/08/2019

Fourth National Climate Assessment

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31/07/2019

Assessment of Climate Change in the Southwest United States

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30/07/2019

Global change and conservation triage on National Wildlife Refuges

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29/07/2019

Management to mitigate and adapt to climate change

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15/07/2019

Informing Strategic Efforts to Expand and Connect Protected Areas Using a Model of Ecological Flow, with Application to the Western United States

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02/07/2019

Economic and environmental implications of alternative landscape designs in the Walnut Creek Watershed of Iowa

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01/07/2019

A sustainable biomass industry for the North American Great Plains

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25/06/2019

Designing Impact Assessments for Evaluating Ecological Effects of Agricultural Conservation Practices on Streams

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20/06/2019

Ecosystem resilience to disruptions linked to global climate change: An adaptive approach to federal land management

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14/05/2019

Challenges and successes in engaging citizen scientists to observe snow cover: from public engagement to an educational collaboration

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