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SPRINGER Conservation Planning Informed Decisions For A Healthier Planet (Pb 2016) by GROVES C.R.
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. Part I: Developing a Conservation Plan1. The Why, Where, How, and What of Conservation Planning.- 2. Getting Started - Foundations and a Roadmap to Planning.- 3. Establishing Objectives and Conservation Features.- 4. Making Objectives Measureable: Targets and Attributes.- 5. Finding and Using Data and Information.- 6. Framing Conservation Planning Problems.- 7. Solving Conservation Planning Problems: Methods and Tools.- 8. Uncertainty and RisksPart II: Special Topics Planning9. Weathering the Storm: Adapting Plans to Climate Change.- 10. Planning for Ecosystem Services - Making Plans more Relevant to Human Well-beingPart III: Implementation and monitoring of conservation plans11. From Planning to Action and Communication: the Art of Implementation.- 12. Monitoring for Results