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Providing the methods, tools, approaches, and case studies to plan a nature conservation project from inception to implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation, Conservation Planning: Informed Decisions for a Healthier Planet draws on a wide range of disciplines and literature from conservation biology and landscape architecture to sustainability. Navigate our relationship with the natural world by learning how to make informed decisions on how to plan and implement  a nature conservation or natural resource management project.

Contents

Table 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

Authors

Craig R. Groves

Craig Groves is the Executive Director for the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAP, www.snap.is), a collaboration of The Nature Conservancy, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also serves as the Series Editor for IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas Best Practice Guidelines. In his 30-year career in nature conservation, Craig has worked as a conservation scientist and planner for TNC, WCS, and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. He has written a previous book on conservation planning (Drafting a Conservation Blueprint, Island Press 2003) as well as numerous articles on conservation planning and on the ecology of at-risk species in the Rocky Mountains.


Edward T. Game

Edward Game is a Lead Scientist with The Nature Conservancy. He has worked on conservation plans in over 15 countries and published more than 30 papers on aspects of conservation decision making. He is author of the manual for the world’s most widely used conservation planning software, Marxan, and was the recipient of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s inaugural prize for innovative concepts to conserve the reef in the face of climate change. Eddie is currently the Editor in Chief of Conservation Letters and serves on the editorial board of Conservation Biology and the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology.


Providing the methods, tools, approaches, and case studies to plan a nature conservation project from inception to implementation as well as monitoring and evaluation, Conservation Planning: Informed Decisions for a Healthier Planet draws on a wide range of disciplines and literature from conservation biology and landscape architecture to sustainability. Navigate our relationship with the natural world by learning how to make informed decisions on how to plan and implement  a nature conservation or natural resource management project.

Table 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

Craig R. Groves

Craig Groves is the Executive Director for the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAP, www.snap.is), a collaboration of The Nature Conservancy, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also serves as the Series Editor for IUCN’s World Commission on Protected Areas Best Practice Guidelines. In his 30-year career in nature conservation, Craig has worked as a conservation scientist and planner for TNC, WCS, and the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. He has written a previous book on conservation planning (Drafting a Conservation Blueprint, Island Press 2003) as well as numerous articles on conservation planning and on the ecology of at-risk species in the Rocky Mountains.


Edward T. Game

Edward Game is a Lead Scientist with The Nature Conservancy. He has worked on conservation plans in over 15 countries and published more than 30 papers on aspects of conservation decision making. He is author of the manual for the world’s most widely used conservation planning software, Marxan, and was the recipient of the Great Barrier Reef Foundation’s inaugural prize for innovative concepts to conserve the reef in the face of climate change. Eddie is currently the Editor in Chief of Conservation Letters and serves on the editorial board of Conservation Biology and the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology.


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