Systematic Conservation Planning

  • Baldwin R
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residual from intensive uses, giving them a political advantage over goals such as representativeness, which focus also on disturbed, economically productive landscapes (Fig. 1). Conservation planning is therefore an activity in which social, economic and political imperatives modify, sometimes drastically, scientific prescriptions. This interaction need not be all one way. Science has at least three means of influencing the practice of nature conservation. First, an available body of scientific theory and application can provide some of the raw material for constructing policies 23. Second, science can offer solutions when called upon to assist in the implementation of policies and conventions, while also clarifying the social and economic implications of alternative methods or scenarios (this role is best filled when science is integral to the process, not simply called in for peer review 24 or when technical or political problems emerge). Third, science can and should be used to review the effectiveness of political processes for achieving stated biodiversity goals. A structured framework for conservation planning will enhance the effectiveness with which science can do these three things.

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Baldwin, R. F. (2018). Systematic Conservation Planning. In Ecology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199830060-0204

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