Trade-offs in conservation : deciding what to save / / edited by Nigel Leader-Williams, William M. Adams, and Robert J. Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910877170803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley Blackwell, 2010
• ISBN: 1-4443-4810-8; 1-283-86916-0; 1-4443-2491-8; 1-4443-2490-X
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• Collana: Conservation science and practice series ; ; no. 8
• Altri autori (Persone): AdamsW. M <1955-> (William Mark); Leader-WilliamsN; SmithRobert J <1971-> (Robert James)
• Disciplina: 333.72; 333.95/16; 333.9516
• Soggetti: Wildlife conservation - Decision making; Wildlife conservation - Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Based on presentations at a Zoological Society of London Symposium on Conservation Biology held in London in November 2007. Cf. pref.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Trade-offs in Conservation; Contents; Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Deciding What to Save: Trade-offs in Conservation; Part I Current Approaches and Toolkits; 2. Prioritizing Trade-offs in Conservation; 3. Trade-offs in Identifying Global Conservation Priority Areas; 4. Trade-offs in Making Ecosystem Services and HumanWell-being Conservation Priorities; 5. Defining and Measuring Success in Conservation; Part II Influence of Value Systems; 6. Conserving Invertebrates: How Many can be Saved, and How?; 7. Trade-offs between Animal Welfare and Conservation in Law and Policy8. Protection or Use: a Case of Nuanced Trade-offs?; 9. Whose Value Counts? Trade-offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction; 10. The Power of Traditions in Conservation; Part III Economics and Governance; 11. Misaligned Incentives and Trade-offs in Allocating Conservation Funding; 12. Marketing and Conservation: ; How to Lose Friends and Influence People; 13. Trade-offs between Conservation and Extractive Industries; 14. A Fighting Chance: can Conservation Create a Platform for Peace within Cycles of Human Conflict?Part IV Social and Institutional Constraints; 15. Trading-off 'Knowing' versus 'Doing' for Effective Conservation Planning; 16. Path Dependence in Conservation; 17. Conservation Trade-offs and the Politics of Knowledge; Part V Future Challenges; 18. Climate Change and Conservation; 19. Drivers of Biodiversity Change; 20. Another Entangled Bank: Making Conservation Trade-offs More Explicit; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 conservationFocuses on questions such as: Wha