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The authors draw on their extensive "hands-on" experience to provide an essential textbook for practitioners, students, or researchers of conservation, natural resource management, or landscape planning and architecture. This title 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.
List of contents
Part I: DEVELOPING A CONSERVATION PLAN
Chapter 1: The Why, Where, How, and What of Conservation Planning
Chapter 2: Getting Started - Foundations and a Roadmap to Planning
Chapter 3: Establishing Objectives and Conservation Features
Chapter 4: Making Objectives Measureable: Targets and Attributes
Chapter 5: Finding and Using Data and Information
Chapter 6: Framing Conservation Planning Problems
Chapter 7: Solving Conservation Planning Problems: Methods and Tools
Chapter 8: Uncertainty and Risks
Part II: SPECIAL TOPICS PLANNING
Chapter 9: Weathering the Storm: Adapting Plans to Climate Change
Chapter 10: Planning for Ecosystem Services - Making Plans more Relevant to Human Well-being
Part III: IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING OF CONSERVATION PLANS
Chapter 11: From Planning to Action and Communication: the Art of Implementation
Chapter 12: Monitoring for Results
About the author
Craig R. Groves; Edward T. Game
Summary
The authors draw on their extensive "hands-on" experience to provide an essential textbook for practitioners, students, or researchers of conservation, natural resource management, or landscape planning and architecture.
