UPC: 9781936221516 | Conservation Planning : Informed Decisions for a Healthier Planet (Paperback)

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In a world of finite resources and complex environmental problems we are faced with tough choices. Conservation Planning brings academic rigor to a pragmatic guidebook on making informed decisions about the way we navigate our relationship with the natural world. The authors draw on their extensive “hands-on” experience to provide an essential resource for practitioners students or researchers of conservation natural resource management or landscape planning and architecture. Conserving nature can be a complicated business whether in an urban environment a production landscape dominated by agriculture or forestry or more natural environments. Increasingly planning and implementing a nature conservation or natural resource management project requires a range of skills across the ecological social economic and political sciences. Conservation Planning provides the methods tools approaches and case studies to plan a nature conservation project from inception to implementation and monitoring and evaluation. It draws on a wide range of disciplines and literature from conservation biology landscape architecture and land-use planning to decision science natural resource economics and sustainability. The book s primary audience is conservation scientists planners and practitioners in nongovernmental organizations; natural resource agency biologists and scientists; and professional landscape architects and land-use planners in both developed and developing nations throughout the world. With decades of experience as conservation planners the authors have combined the fields of spatial planning (establishing priority places for conservation) and strategic planning into one overall planning approach. The book s underlying philosophy is that effective planning is really about making tough choices of where to allocate resources to achieve the conservation outcomes of a project program or conservation initiative. It should prove to be an essential guide to anyone involved in nature conservation writ large.