Trade-offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save (Google eBook)

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

John Wiley & Sons, Jun 13, 2011 - Science - 432 pages

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 series

This 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.

Contents

• Tradeoffs in Identifying Global Conservation Priority Areas: 35
• Tradeoffs in Making Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing: 56
• Defining and Measuring Success in Conservation: 73
• a Case of Nuanced Tradeoffs?: 135
• Whose Value Counts? Tradeoffs between Biodiversity: 157
• The Power of Traditions in Conservation: 175
• Conservation Funding: 197
• How to Lose Friends: 215
• Tradeoffs between Conservation and Extractive Industries: 233
• can Conservation Create a Platform for Peace: 253
• Conservation Planning: 275
• Path Dependence in Conservation: 292
• Conservation Tradeoffs and the Politics of Knowledge: 311
• Future Challenges: 329
• Drivers of Biodiversity Change: 349
• Making Conservation Tradeoffs: 365
• Index: 377

About the author

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.

William M. Adams is Moran Professor of Conservation and Development. He is based in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught since 1984. His research focuses on the social dimensions of conservation in Africa and the UK. He is a Trustee of Fauna and Flora International.

Robert J. Smith is a Research Fellow at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent. His research interests include protected area network design, conservation and corruption, and the influence of marketing in conservation.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Trade-offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save; Volume 8 of Conservation Science and Practice
• Editors: Nigel Leader-Williams, William M. Adams, Robert J. Smith
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1444348108, 9781444348101
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Science / Life Sciences / General