Trade-Offs in Conservation

This book demonstrates that trade-offs can be very important for conservationists. Its various chapters show how and why trade-offs are made, and why conservationists need to think very hard about what, if anything, to do about them. The book argues that conservationists must carefully weigh up, and be explicit about, the trade-offs that they make every day in deciding what to save. Key Features: * Discusses the wider non-biological issues that surround making decisions about which species and biogeographic areas to prioritise for conservation * Focuses on questions such as: What are these wider issues that are influencing the decisions we make? What factors need to be included in our assessment of trade-offs? What package of information and issues do managers need to consider in making a rational decision? Who should make such decisions? * Part of the Conservation Science and Practice book series This volume is of interest to policy-makers, researchers, practitioners and postgraduate students who are concerned about making decisions that include recognition of trade-offs in conservation planning.

ISBN 1405193840   Pages 432 ISBN13 9781405193849 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 946 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chicester Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Series title Conservation Science and Practice Format Hardback   Height (mm) 242 Publication date 10 Sep 2010   Width (mm) 166 DEWEY 333.72   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

		Contributors
		Preface and Acknowledgments
		Introduction		1
1		Deciding What to Save: Trade-offs in Conservation by Robert J. Smith		3
Part I		Current Approaches and Toolkits		15
2		Prioritizing Trade-offs in Conservation by Hugh P. Possingham		17
3		Trade-offs in Identifying Global Conservation Priority Areas by Kerrie A. Wilson		35
4		Trade-offs in Making Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being Conservation Priorities by Peter Kareiva		56
5		Defining and Measuring Success in Conservation by Andrew Balmford		73
Part II		Influence of Value Systems		95
6		Conserving Invertebrates: How Many can be Saved, and How? by Michael J. Samways		97
7		Trade-offs between Animal Welfare and Conservation in Law and Policy by Stuart R. Harrop		118
8		Protection or Use: a Case of Nuanced Trade-offs? by Nigel Leader-Williams		135
9		Whose Value Counts? Trade-offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction by Matthew J. Walpole		157
10		The Power of Traditions in Conservation by Katherine M. Homewood		175
Part III		Economics and Governance		195
11		Misaligned Incentives and Trade-offs in Allocating Conservation Funding by Richard E. Rice		197
12		Marketing and Conservation: How to Lose Friends and Influence People by Douglas C. MacMillan		215
13		Trade-offs between Conservation and Extractive Industries by Juan Luis Dammert		233
14		A Fighting Chance: can Conservation Create a Platform for Peace within Cycles of Human Conflict? by Annette Lanjouw		253
Part IV		Social and Institutional Constraints		273
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"It will, however, find a ready market amongst top undergraduate and postgraduate students as it is a compendium of good summary facts, definitions and diagrams with some superlative introductory expositions. For the same reasons I suspect most lecturers in conservation biology will want a book on their shelves." (Biological Conservation Reviewers, 2011)

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