Prioritizing Trade-Offs in Conservation

Trade-Offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-34

  Wilson, Kerrie A ^a   Bode, Michael ^b   Grantham, Hedley ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allocation of funds in achieving conservation goals; Biodiversity maximization conservation investment in range of conservation actions in time; Conservation planners and practitioners conserving elements of biodiversity, species or habitat types; Current approaches and toolkits; Multiple zones and different trade offs; Prioritizing trade offs in conservation; Proper problem formulation and data collation; Trade offs, exploration and optimization and opportunity costs of decisions evaluated; Trade offs, unavoidable part of decision making multiple considerations or choices not properly aligned; Trading off biodiversity benefits and investment security

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888683200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324907.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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