WWF's spatial landscape planning methods are diverse, reflecting WWF's global, decentralized organizational structure. Over the past decade WWF's spatial planning methods have varied from expert-only workshops to systematic conservation planning using decision support software, and combinations of both. We provide four case studies from the Asia-Pacific region to illustrate the variety of approaches that have been used, emphasizing assessment directed at implementation. The method appropriate to each situation was chosen based on data availability, timing, costs, available range of stakeholders, and the technical facility and interest of the stakeholders themselves. In all cases, methods were chosen to balance staff technical capacity, technical rigour, and political buy-in, hoping to ensure that the resulting plan would actually be implemented. © 2009 Fauna & Flora International.
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Morrison, J., Loucks, C., Long, B., & Wikramanayake, E. (2009). Landscape-scale spatial planning at WWF: A variety of approaches. In ORYX (Vol. 43, pp. 499–507). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605309990354
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