{"links":{"self":"http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DE260100193"},"data":{"type":"grant-details","id":"DE260100193","attributes":{"code":"DE260100193","administering-organisation":"Monash University","announcement-administering-organisation":"Monash University","scheme-name":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","grant-status":"Active","funding-commencement-year":2026,"years-funded":3,"project-start-date":"2026-01-01","anticipated-end-date":"2028-12-31","grant-summary":"Justice in AI-driven Conservation: Repairing Nature with Care Practices. This project aims to investigate how artificial intelligence for biodiversity assessments can embrace justice practices to achieve Australia’s conservation targets. This project expands theoretical knowledge and participatory methods in the area of digital technologies for conservation decision-making by advancing responsible innovation frameworks. Expected outcomes include a novel legitimacy approach alongside guidance on digital care practices for algorithmic biodiversity monitoring and reporting, ensuring the ethical implementation of the nature repair market. This should provide benefits that position Australia as a global leader in justice-oriented technologies for responsive and adaptive environmental policymaking and practices.","funding-current":533795.00,"funding-at-announcement":529558,"investigators-current":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Danilo","familyName":"Urzedo","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-4256-515X "}],"investigators-at-announcement":[{"title":"Dr","firstName":"Danilo","familyName":"Urzedo","roleName":"Discovery Early Career Researcher Award","roleCode":"DECRA","isFellowship":true,"orcidIdentifier":"0000-0003-4256-515X "}],"organisations-current":[{"organisationName":"Monash University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"organisations-at-announcement":[{"organisationName":"Monash University","roleName":"Administering Organisation","state":"VIC"}],"field-of-research":[{"isPrimary":false,"code":"410401","name":"Conservation and Biodiversity","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":true,"code":"4406","name":"Human Geography","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"440604","name":"Environmental Geography","type":"FOR20"},{"isPrimary":false,"code":"440805","name":"Environmental Politics","type":"FOR20"}],"socio-economic-objective":[{"code":"130305","name":"Technological Ethics","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"180604","name":"Rehabilitation Or Conservation of Terrestrial Environments","type":"SEO20"},{"code":"190205","name":"Environmental Protection Frameworks (Incl. Economic Incentives)","type":"SEO20"}],"international-collaboration":["Spain"],"lief-register":[],"achievement-summary":null,"national-interest-test-statement":"Artificial Intelligence is transforming the capabilities to tackle environmental crises. As Australia leads the world’s first legislated biodiversity market, algorithmic technologies are expanding monitoring and reporting frameworks to inform conservation strategies. Yet, biased algorithmic decisions risk reinforcing injustices, dismissing local knowledge, and centralising benefits. Through interdisciplinary collaborations, this project conducts the first global assessment of the legitimacy of algorithmic conservation decisions while co-designing methods to ensure justice-oriented biodiversity assessments. By incorporating participatory practices that account for multispecies justice, this project will deliver a novel legitimacy approach and digital care practices to conservation valuations. Outcomes will inform nature repair methods, strengthen public confidence, and enhance the effectiveness of political measures toward achieving the National Biodiversity Strategy, Nature Positive goals, and the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework. Collaborative engagement will embed insights into real-world practices through workshops, roundtables, and field research, influencing biodiversity management by incorporating diverse expertise and interspecies relations. Advancing responsible innovation in alignment with national biodiversity priorities, this project positions Australia as a global leader in justice-oriented technologies for transformative environmental actions."}}}