Trade-Offs in Conservation : Deciding What to Save
ISBN: 9781405193849 | 1405193840
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 9/27/2010
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Trade-offs are very commonly made in conservation. Inevitably, conservation action involves choices, between the populations of different species and the states of various ecosystems, between preservation and transformation by economic forces, between the needs of people and those of other species, between the interests of some people over others. However, conservationists are often slow to recognize trade-offs, and reluctant to draw attention to them or see them widely discussed. Does this matter? The answer to that question depends on what bi... MORE
| Contributors | p. ix |
| Preface and Acknowledgments | p. xxv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Deciding What to Save: Trade-offs in Conservation | p. 3 |
| Current Approaches and Toolkits | p. 15 |
| Prioritizing Trade-offs in Conservation | p. 17 |
| Trade-offs in Identifying Global Conservation Priority Areas | p. 35 |
| Trade-offs in Making Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being Conservation Prioriti... MORE | p. 56 |
| Defining and Measuring Success in Conservation | p. 73 |
| Influence of Value Systems | p. 95 |
| Conserving Invertebrates: How Many can be Saved, and How? | p. 97 |
| Trade-offs between Animal Welfare and Conservation in Law and Policy | p. 118 |
| Protection or Use: a Case of Nuanced Trade-offs? | p. 135 |
| Whose Value Counts? Trade-offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction | p. 157 |
| The Power of Traditions in Conservation | p. 175 |
| Economics and Governance | p. 195 |
| Misaligned Incentives and Trade-offs in Allocating Conservation Funding | p. 197 |
| Marketing and Conservation: How to Lose Friends and Influence People | p. 215 |
| Trade-offs between Conservation and Extractive Industries | p. 233 |
| A Fighting Chance: can Conservation Create a Platform for Peace within Cycles of Human Conflict? | p. 253 |
| Social and Institutional Constraints | p. 273 |
| Trading-off 'Knowing' versus 'Doing' for Effective Conservation Planning | p. 275 |
| Path Dependence in Conservation | p. 292 |
| Conservation Trade-offs and the Politics of Knowledge | p. 311 |
| Future Challenges | p. 329 |
| Climate Change and Conservation | p. 331 |
| Drivers of Biodiversity Change | p. 349 |
| Another Entangled Bank: Making Conservation Trade-offs More Explicit | p. 365 |
| Index | p. 377 |
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Nigel Leader-Williams became Director of Conservation Leadership, based in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, in 2009. Previously he was Director of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent. His research focuses on sustainable resource use and human-wildlife conflict.
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