Another Entangled Bank: Making Conservation Trade-Offs More Explicit

Trade-Offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 365-376

  Smith, Robert J ^a   Adams, William M ^b   Leader Williams, Nigel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Another entangled bank making conservation trade offs explicit; Conservation decisions, interested parties or limited resources involving trade offs; Conservation ethic, and value judgments from personal appreciation of nature; Conservation planning and decision making highly entangled process; Countries signing up to convention on biological diversity (CBD) maintaining globally threatened biodiversity; Diversity of opinions conservation objectives possible; Focus on new tool development for effectiveness and guiding decision making; Trade off optimization approaches improving efficiency, transparency and encourage self reflection; Trade offs, ubiquitous feature of conservation planning and action; Valuing biodiversity, people influenced by direct experiences of nature

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EID: 80051648013     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324907.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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