Trade-offs in Conservation Deciding What to Save

by Leader-Williams, Nigel; Adams, William M.; Smith, Robert J.

• ISBN13: 9781405193849
• ISBN10: 1405193840
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book demonstrates that trade-offs can be very important for conservationists. Its various chapters show how and why trade-offs are made, and why conservationists need to think very hard about what, if anything, to do about them. The book argues that conservationists must carefully weigh up, and be explicit about, the trade-offs that they make every day in deciding what to save.Key Features: Discusses the wider non-biological issues that surround making decisions about which species and biogeographic areas to prioritise for conservation Focuses on questions such as: What are these wider issues that are influencing the decisions we make? What factors need to be included in our assessment of trade-offs? What package of information and issues do managers need to consider in making a rational decision? Who should make such decisions? Part of the Conservation Science and Practice book seriesThis volume is of interest to policy-makers, researchers, practitioners and postgraduate students who are concerned about making decisions that include recognition of trade-offs in conservation planning.

Author Biography

Nigel Leader-Williams became Director of Conservation Leadership, based in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, in 2009. Previously he was Director of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent. His research focuses on sustainable resource use and human-wildlife conflict.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction	p. 1
Deciding What to Save: Trade-offs in Conservation	p. 3
Current Approaches and Toolkits	p. 15
Prioritizing Trade-offs in Conservation	p. 17
Trade-offs in Identifying Global Conservation Priority Areas	p. 35
Trade-offs in Making Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being Conservation Priorities	p. 56
Defining and Measuring Success in Conservation	p. 73
Influence of Value Systems	p. 95
Conserving Invertebrates: How Many can be Saved, and How?	p. 97
Trade-offs between Animal Welfare and Conservation in Law and Policy	p. 118
Protection or Use: a Case of Nuanced Trade-offs?	p. 135
Whose Value Counts? Trade-offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction	p. 157
The Power of Traditions in Conservation	p. 175
Economics and Governance	p. 195
Misaligned Incentives and Trade-offs in Allocating Conservation Funding	p. 197
Marketing and Conservation: How to Lose Friends and Influence People	p. 215
Trade-offs between Conservation and Extractive Industries	p. 233
A Fighting Chance: can Conservation Create a Platform for Peace within Cycles of Human Conflict?	p. 253
Social and Institutional Constraints	p. 273
Trading-off 'Knowing' versus 'Doing' for Effective Conservation Planning	p. 275
Path Dependence in Conservation	p. 292
Conservation Trade-offs and the Politics of Knowledge	p. 311
Future Challenges	p. 329
Climate Change and Conservation	p. 331
Drivers of Biodiversity Change	p. 349
Another Entangled Bank: Making Conservation Trade-offs More Explicit	p. 365
Index	p. 377
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