JustConservation - global data of site-level biodiversity conservation and its social-ecological outcomes (1970-2019)

This dataset contains evidence collected from 723 studies published in English-language peer-reviewed journals that describe and explore conservation efforts at a single site in 104 countries (1970-2019). The pool of studies was obtained through a keyword search on Web of Science, which returned 69,246 publications, followed by a screening of titles and abstracts using the open access machine-learning assisted software Colandr (11,100 publications screened; cut-off inclusion rate: 3%) and a data extraction phase (1,054 publications), based on the following criteria for inclusion: (1) the study is about biodiversity conservation; (2) the study describes a deliberate intervention; (3) the study provides empirical evidence; (4) the conservation intervention takes place in a specific site through a specific actor or actors; (5) the study identifies a discernible conservation aim, and; (6) the paper identifies a discernible conservation approach.