? Extensive use of examples from the field and the academic
literature, allowing readers to relate more easily to their own
situations ? Includes end of chapter summaries, enabling
reiteration of the main points made in the chapter ? Deliberately
avoids jargon, except where absolutely necessary, making the ideas
easily assimilated and readable
內容簡介:
Systematic Conservation Planning provides a clear, comprehensive
guide to the process of deriving a conservation area network for
regions, which will best represent the biodiversity of regions in
the most cost-effective way. The measurement of biodiversity,
design of field sampling strategies, alongside different data
treatment methods are detailed helping to provide a conceptual
framework for identifying conservation area networks, underpinned
by the concept of complementarity. Setting conservation targets and
then multi-criteria analyses, using complementarity but bringing in
other criteria reflecting competing uses of land or water, to show
how conservation area networks can achieve conservation targets in
ways that also allow for the production of food, fiber and shelter
are also discussed. Providing a clear procedure for identifying
conservation priority areas underpinned by cutting edge science,
this book will be of interest to graduate students, academics,
planners and decision makers dealing with natural resource use and
exploitation, alongside conservation NGOs.