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• Part 1. Defining Baselines 1. Temporal Baselines: Finding a Tipping Point in the Past by Laurent Godet, Simon Dufour, Anne-Julia Rollet and Armelle Decaulne 2. Spatial Baselines: Is Going Elsewhere Easier Than Going Back in Time by Anne-Julia Rollet, Simon Dufour and Armelle Decaulne 3. Mapping What is Left of Nature by Laurent Godet and Adrien Geutte 4. The Baseline: A Social Construction by Clemence Moreau, Cecile Barnaud and Raphael Mathevet
• Part 2. Using Baselines to Conserve Nature 5. Rewilding by the Return of Ghosts of the Past by Laurent Godet 6. Spontaneous Rewilding through Land Abandonment by Adrien Guette and Jonathan Carruthers-Jones 7. Geoprospective: Looking for Potential Scenarios by Thomas Houet 8. The Place of Ecological Knowledge in Policies for Ecological Neutrality: No Net Loss and Biodiversity Offsetting by Coralie Calvet
• Part 3. Examples of the Use of Baselines 9. The Variability of Baselines Mobilized in Littoral Protected Areas: The Anthropocene as a Dividing Line? By Vincent Andreu-Boussut and Celine Chadenas 10. Baselines and French Forests by Damien Marage 11. How Can We Maintain Traditional Agro-Pastoral Landscapes? By David Montembault.
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The Anthropocene era has been marked by such significant human pressure that it has led to the sixth mass extinction. The Baseline Concept in Biodiversity Conservation interprets human domination of the Earth as the process of gradual landscape change, the execution of which is neither linear nor homogeneous. This book is structured around three key questions: Where and when did everything go wrong? How do we define baseline states for biodiversity conservation strategies? How are reference states mobilized in a concrete way through case studies? Today, biodiversity conservation faces a dilemma that this book sheds light on: return to states less modified by humans than today but in a world that has changed significantly; or, let the nature of tomorrow express itself where it still can but without a road map.
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• Part I Introduction and Background
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Background: The normative postulates of conservation biology Part II Ethics and Biodiversity
• Chapter 3. Ethics and the environment: Biodiversity and conservation through the lens of environmental ethics
• Chapter 4. Intrinsic and instrumental values, and their relations
• Chapter 5. Ethical theories and practical reasoning Part III Recent Developments: Relations, Rights, and Science
• Chapter 6. Recent developments in conservation biology: Ethics through the lens of conservation biology
• Chapter 7. Relational values and IPBES Nature's contribution to people
• Chapter 8. Environmental human rights and rights of nature
• Chapter 9. Conservation biology, assessments, and the argument from inductive risk
• Chapter 10. Concluding thoughts.
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This book examines the role of ethics and philosophy in biodiversity conservation. The objective of this book is two-fold: on the one hand it offers a detailed and systematic account of central normative concepts often used, but rarely explicated nor justified, within conservation biology. Such concepts include 'values' (both intrinsic, instrumental, and, more recently, relational), 'rights', and 'duties'. The second objective is to emphasize to environmental philosophers and applied ethicists the many interesting decision-making challenges of biodiversity conservation. The book argues that a nuanced account of instrumental values provides a powerful tool for reasoning about the values of biodiversity. It also scrutinizes relational values, the concept of rights of nature, and risk, and show how moral philosophy proves indispensable for these concepts. Consequently, it engages with recent suggestions on normative aspects of biodiversity conservation, and show the need for moral philosophy in biodiversity conservation. The overriding aim of this book is to provide conservation biologists and policy-makers with a systematic overview of concepts and assessments of the reasons for reaching prescriptive conclusions about biodiversity conservation. This will prove instrumental in clarifying the role of applied ethics and a refined understanding of the tools it can provide. This title will be of interest to students and scholars of conservation biology, conservation policy, environmental ethics and environmental philosophy.
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• Foreword Aileen Lee Preface Taking Conservation to Scale in Complex Systems About This Book Acknowledgements Introduction Focus of This Book How This Book Is Organized Overarching Themes Sources and Further Information PART I. Designing and Implementing Your Program
• Chapter 1. Framing and Assessing the Situation Clarifying Your Purpose Understanding the System in Which You Are Working Developing a Shared Situation Model Situation Model and Situation Pathway Examples Sources and Further Information
• Chapter 2. Planning Your Strategies Understanding Your Overall Impact Trajectory Finding Key Intervention Points in Situation Models Identifying Candidate Actions Creating Strategy Pathways to Show Theories of Change Developing Your Approach for Going to Scale Determining Your Program's Investment Approach Sources and Further Information
• Chapter 3. Operationalizing and Implementing Your Program Setting SMART Goals and Objectives Analyzing Trade-Offs and Conflict Turning Your Strategic Plan into an Actionable Work Plan Assembling a Programmatic Investment Portfolio Awarding Contracts and Grants That Enable Adaptation Sources and Further Information PART II. Using and Expanding Your Evidence Base
• Chapter 4. Synthesizing Existing Evidence Determining Investment in Evidence Based on Your Burden of Proof Identifying Critical Claims Requiring Evidence Compiling Evidence Sources and Assessing Claims Sources and Further Information
• Chapter 5. Monitoring and Adapting Developing Your Monitoring Plan Monitoring Your Strategy Effectiveness Defining and Measuring Long-Term Program Success Analyzing Data and Using the Results to Adapt Reporting to Your Team and Stakeholders Exiting Responsibly Sources and Further Information
• Chapter 6. Promoting Collaborative Learning Contributing to the Global Evidence Base Developing Collaborative Learning Programs Building the Discipline of Conservation Sources and Further Information Some Final Words Glossary Keys to Diagrams Used in This Book About the Authors Index.
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As environmental problems grow larger and more pressing, conservationists have had to adapt. With a shrinking window of time to act, they are turning to broad approaches to combat continental- and global-scale crises of biodiversity loss, invasive species, and climate change. Pathways to Success-the long-awaited successor to the classic volume Measures of Success-is a modern guide to building large-scale transformative programs capable of tackling the complex conservation crises we face today. In this strikingly illustrated volume, coauthors Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis walk readers through fundamental concepts of effective program-level design, helping them to think strategically about project coordination, funding, and stakeholder input. Chapters in the first part of the book look at all aspects of designing and implementing large-scale conservation programs while the second part focuses on how to use data and information to manage, adapt, and learn from program strategies. In addition, the authors offer practical advice for avoiding pitfalls, such as formulaic recipes and simplistic silver-bullet solutions that can trip up otherwise well-intentioned efforts. Abundant graphics help to explain and clarify concepts presented in the text, and a glossary in the back matter defines technical terms for the reader. Pathways to Success is the definitive guide for conservation program managers and funders who want to increase the scale and effectiveness of their work combating biodiversity loss, climate change, and other pressing environmental issues.
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• Part I. Characterizing Biodiversity: Beyond the Species Approach.-
• Chapter 1. Beyond Biodiversity and Speciation - Disparity and Evolvability (Alessandro Minelli).-
• Chapter 2. Can Plasticity Lead to the Emergence of Novel Units of Biodiversity? (Davide Vecchi, Rob Mills).-
• Chapter 3. Between Explanans and Explanandum: Biodiversity and the Theoretical Unity of Ecology (Philippe Huneman).-
• Chapter 4. Functional Biodiversity and the Idea that Organisms Fulfil Functional Roles within Ecological Units (Antoine C. Dussault).-
• Chapter 5. The Importance of Scaling in Biodiversity (Luis Borda de Agua).- Part II. Estimating Biodiversity: Limitation and Challenges.-
• Chapter 6. A Multidisciplinary Research to Understand and to Correct the Impacts of Species Concepts and Ignored Cryptic Species on Biodiversity Assessments (Anne Chenuil).-
• Chapter 7. Statistical Measures of Biological Diversity: A Unified Framework and Discussion (Vincenzo Crupi).-
• Chapter 8. Measuring Biodiversity from Traits to Landscapes (Cristina Branquino).- Part III. Representing Biodiversity: Cognitive Representation and Representation by Specimen.-
• Chapter 9. The Representations of Biodiversity (Anouk Barberousse).-
• Chapter 10. Natural History Collections as Models of the Diversity of the Natural World (Judite Alves).-
• Chapter 11. News from the Battlefield: Bridging Epistemologies and Ontologies in the Field of Biodiversity (Marie Roue).-
• Chapter 12. On the Impossibility and Dispensability of Defining 'Biodiversity' - and its Function as a Mediator Between Heterogeneous Fields (Georg Toepfer).-
• Chapter 13. Value-Ladeness of Biodiversity. A Post-Normal Conceptual Analysis (Matthias Kaiser).- Part IV. Conserving Biodiversity: From Science to Policies.-
• Chapter 14. Conservation Sovereignty and Biodiversity (Marku Oksanen & Timo Vuorisalo).-
• Chapter 15. The Vagueness of "Biodiversity" and its Implications in Conservation Practice (Yves Meinard, Sylvain Coq, Bernhard Schmid).-
• Chapter 16. The Role of Communities in Biodiversity Conservation. The Case of Multispecies Biofilms (Jorge Marques da Silva, Elena Casetta).-
• Chapter 17. Modification of Habitats and Introduction of Exotic Species in Marine and Estuarine Environments: Always a Threat or Sometimes an Opportunity to Increase Biodiversity and to Enhance Biodiversity Conservation? (Jose Lino Costa, et al).-
• Chapter 18. Ordinary Biodiversity. The Case of Food (Andrea Borghini).
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This open access book features essays written by philosophers, biologists, ecologists and conservation scientists facing the current biodiversity crisis. Despite increasing communication, accelerating policy and management responses, and notwithstanding improving ecosystem assessment and endangered species knowledge, conserving biodiversity continues to be more a concern than an accomplished task. Why is it so?The overexploitation of natural resources by our species is a frequently recognised factor, while the short-term economic interests of governments and stakeholders typically clash with the burdens that implementing conservation actions imply. But this is not the whole story. This book develops a different perspective on the problem by exploring the conceptual challenges and practical defiance posed by conserving biodiversity, namely: on the one hand, the difficulties in defining what biodiversity is and characterizing that "thing" to which the word 'biodiversity' refers to; on the other hand, the reasons why assessing biodiversity and putting in place effective conservation actions is arduous.
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• Contents: PART I: BACKGROUND
• 1. Human values and the conservation of wild species: an overview
• 2. Basic theory: the economic value of wild species, their conservation and use PART II: VALUES AND SUPPORT FOR THE CONSERVATION OF INDIVIDUAL SPECIES AS WELL AS SUSTAINABLE USE STRATEGIES
• 3. Changed values and increased support for wildlife conservation as a result of ecotourism: a sea turtle study
• 4. The economic worth of conserving the Asian elephant
• 5. Australia's curious tree-kangaroos: important influences (particularly knowledge) on support for their conservation
• 6. The social net economic benefit of conserving an endangered marsupial glider: economic and ecological considerations
• 7. Support for conserving the likeable koala versus that for a critically endangered species of wombat
• 8. The hawksbill turtle - its conservation and use: public values, attitudes and policies
• 9. Saltwater crocodiles: human values, conservation and sustainable use PART III: VALUES AND SUPPORT FOR THE CONSERVATION OF MULTIPLE SPECIES AS WELL AS SUSTAINABLE USE STRATEGIES
• 10. Public support for conserving reptile species: stated values for different species and comparative support for their conservation
• 11. Influences of knowledge on wildlife valuation and support for conserving species
• 12. The relative importance of likeability and endangerment for payments to conserve species
• 13. The similarity principle and public support for the survival of wildlife species
• 14. The comparative probability of species of mammals, birds and reptiles being selected for survival when only a limited number of species can be chosen
• 15. Public support for sustainable wildlife harvesting and biodiversity conservation: a case study
• 16. Public attitudes to wildlife use by Indigenous Australians: conservation issues, marketing and the economic viability of aboriginal wildlife enterprises.
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This pioneering book explores the influence of human values on the willingness of individuals to pay for the conservation of individual wildlife species (and classes of these), to be for or against their survival, and to favour or oppose their harvesting. Clement Tisdell combines original theories, survey results and experimental findings to assess the economic benefit of conserving particular wild species and to suggest strategies for a sustainable future. With a detailed analysis of 25 species, covering the three classes (mammals, birds and reptiles), this book examines how variations in knowledge and social factors can influence individuals' evaluation of species. Moreover, economics and ecology are combined to propose sound policies for wildlife management and to provide estimates of the net economic benefit of conserving particular species. The first work to provide such extensive analysis of human values and conservation, this book is an essential resource for economists, ecologists and all those interested in wildlife management, environment and nature conservation.
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• 1. Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction: An Introduction to the Debate Part I: Linking Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction - Where, How and Why? Editors' Introduction
• 2. Biodiversity Conservation and the Eradication of Poverty 3.Linking Conservation and Poverty Reduction: Landscapes, People and Power
• 4. Poverty, Development and Biodiversity Conservation: Shooting in the Dark?
• 5. Livelihoods, Forests and Conservation in Developing Countries: An Overview Part II: Conservation's Place in International Development Editors' Introduction
• 6. Integrating the Rio Conventions into Development Co-operation
• 7. Wildlife and Poverty Study
• 8. Striking a Balance: Ensuring Conservation's Place on the International Biodiversity Assistance Agenda
• 9. Report of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of Review of Implementation of the Convention
• 10. Contested Relationships between Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Alleviation
• 11. Poverty and Conservation: The New Century's 'Peasant Question?'
• 12. Making Poverty Reduction Irreversible: Development Implications of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Part III: Conservation Policy and Protectionism Editors' Introduction
• 13. Protected Areas and Poverty - The Linkages and How to Address Them
• 14. Conservation Policy and Indigenous Peoples
• 15. The Role of Protected Areas in Conserving Biodiversity and Sustaining Local Livelihoods.
• 16. Eviction for Conservation: A Global Overview
• 17. Political Ecology and the Costs and Benefits of Protected Areas
• 18. A Property Rights Approach to Understanding Human Displacement from Protected Areas: The Case of Marine Protected Areas Part IV: Conservation NGOs and Poor People Editors' Introduction
• 19. Two Agendas on Amazon Development
• 20. International Conservation Organisations and the Fate of Local Tropical Forest Conservation Initiatives
• 21. A Challenge to Conservationists
• 22. Conservation, Development and Poverty Alleviation: Time for a Change in Attitudes
• 23. Conserving What and for Whom? Why Conservation Should Help Meet Basic Needs in the Tropics
• 24. Disentangling the Links between Conservation and Poverty Reduction in Practice Part V: New Developments: Ecosystem Services, Carbon and Climate Change Editors' Introduction
• 25. Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Current State and Trends
• 26. Selling Out on Nature (and letters in response)
• 27. Payments for Environmental Services and the Poor: Concepts and Preliminary Evidence
• 28. Climate, Carbon, Conservation and Communities
• 29. Protecting the Future: Carbon, Forests, Protected Areas and Local Livelihoods
• 30. Seeing REDD? Forests, Climate Change Mitigation the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Part VI: Moving Beyond the Debate - The Need for Conservation-poverty Partnerships Editors' Introduction
• 31. Partnerships for Conservation and Poverty Reduction
• 32. Common Ground between Anthropology and Conservation Biology
• 33. Thinking Like a Human: Social Science and the Two Cultures Problem.
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In the last decade biodiversity loss and persistent poverty in developing countries have been recognised as major international problems that require urgent attention. However, the nature and scale of the links between these two problems, and between efforts to address them, has been the subject of much heated debate. Understanding the different elements of this debate is critical if we are to move towards constructive solutions. This Reader provides a guide to, and commentary on, the different strands of the current conservation-poverty debate through a selection of key readings from both the conservation and development literature including policy documents, journal articles and reports. The breadth of material will help readers, including both students and professionals, to locate current debates within their wider contexts. Among the areas of debate covered are: ' The lack of attention to biodiversity concerns in international development policy ' The social implications of protectionist conservation policy ' The roles and responsibilities of conservation NGOs towards local communities ' The links between climate change, biodiversity and poverty reduction, and in particular the implication of discussions around reduced emissions from deforestation (REDD) as a climate change mitigation strategy.
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This book brings together a selection of 21 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of management for the conservation of biodiversity. The topics addressed include: lessons from the Northern spotted owl saga, hidden costs of implementing the EU Habitats Directive, the importance of recently created agricultural wetlands, cutting reeds to create a sustainable habitat, impacts and control of feral cats, selecting areas to complement existing reserve systems, beneficial effects of rabbit warrens, effects of fences on large predator ranges, spatial structure of critical habitats and connectivity, effects of an agro-pasture landscape on biodiversity, community involvement, reserve selection in forests, germ-plasm interventions in agroforestry systems, shade coffee plantations and the protection of tree diversity, and reserves and the reduction of deforestation rates in dry tropical forests. It also includes: reconciling forest conservation actions with usage by and needs of local people, weed invasion in understory plant communities in tropical lowland forests, problems of patch area and connectivity in plant conservation, the need not to focus just on hot-spots, and partitioning conservation across elevations. The organisms and communities considered embrace birds, coral reefs, various large and small mammals, reptiles, forest trees, and dune and boreal semi-natural grassland plants. The contributions are taken from situations being confronted in regions including the Andaman Islands, Brazil, Canary Islands, the Caribbean, Finland, Germany, Guinea, India, Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, Poland, South Africa, Spain, and the USA. Collectively, the studies presented here provide a snap-shot of the types of management actions being undertaken for conservation and their efficacy. This makes the volume especially valuable for use in conservation biology courses. It is reprinted from "Biodiversity and Conservation, volume 18, No 4" (2009).
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This book brings together a selection of 22 original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address aspects of methods and practice in biodiversity conservation. The contributions deal with a wide variety of approaches to site selection and management, especially the use of bioindicators, surrogates, and other approaches to site selection. As no complete inventory of all taxa in any one site has yet been achieved, alternative strategies are essential and bioindicators or surrogates come to the fore. The articles included cover a wide range of organisms used in such approaches to in situ conservation: annelids, anurans, arthropods, birds, bryophytes, butterflies, collembolans, flowering pants, a lobster, molluscs, rodents, and turtles. Further, the habitats considered here embrace estuaries, forests, freshwater, grasslands, the marine, mountains, and sand-dunes, and are drawn from a wide range of countries - notably Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, and the U. K. Cryopreservation, well established for ex situ preservation of bacteria and fungi, is shown here also applied to bryophyte conservation. Finance is always a problem, and the final contribution examines the sources of money available for conservation action in an examplar country, Mexico. Collectively, the studies presented here provide a snap-shot of the range of methods and practices in use in the conservation of biodiversity today. This makes the volume especially valuable for use in conservation biology and biodiversity management courses. It is reprinted from "Biodiversity and Conservation, Volume 18 No 5 (2009)".
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• Saving Biological Diversity: An Overview.-What Are We Trying to Save? And Why? Toward a Policy-Relevant Definition of Biodiversity.-Part I Protecting Populations of Particular Species.-Navigating for Noah, Setting New Directions for Endangered Species Protection in the 21st Century.-Economics of Protecting Endangered Species.-Center for Plant Conservation: Twenty Years of Recovering America's Vanishing Flora.-The Piping Plover as an Umbrella Species for the Barrier Beach Ecosystem.-Restoring Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) to New England.-Part II Saving an Ecosystem Through Endangered Species Recovery: Conservation of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.-Sea Change: Changing Management to Protect Ocean Ecosystems.-Valuation of Natural Resource Improvements in the Adirondacks.-Minimum Dynamic Areas for Matrix Forest Ecosystems.-Restoring America's Everglades: A National Imperative.-Part III The Need for Global Efforts to Save Biological Diversity.-Implications of Local Conservation and Land Protection for the Global Environment.-Creative Approaches to Preserving Biodiversity in Brazil and the Amazon.-International Treaties and Laws on Biodiversity Protection.-Advancing Conservation in a Globalized Worls.-New Perspectives.
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The distinctive contribution of this book is that it presents a pragmatic approach for preserving biological diversity. Experts in a wide variety of fields, including philosophy, environmental policy, law, economics and biology, present different perspectives on how to prevent widespread extinction around the world. Several chapters deal with basic questions such as how we should define biodiversity and how we should determine what is most important to save. Two chapters focus on how we can place an economic value on biological diversity, a step that is often critical for gaining acceptance for conservation efforts. One of the major conclusions is that people are often willing to pay to preserve natural systems that have no immediate value in terms of generating income or commodities. Other chapters are case studies of efforts to protect particular species or ecosystems; these provide practical guidelines for how to protect biodiversity more effectively.
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Some ecosystem management plans established by state and federal agencies have begun to shift their focus away from single-species conservation to a broader goal of protecting a wide range of flora and fauna, including species whose numbers are scarce or about which there is little scientific understanding. To date, these efforts have proved extremely costly and complex to implement. Are there alternative approaches to protecting rare or little-known species that can be more effective and less burdensome than current efforts?"Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species" represents the first comprehensive scientific evaluation of approaches and management options for protecting rare or little-known terrestrial species. The book brings together leading ecologists, biologists, botanists, economists, and sociologists to classify approaches, summarize their theoretical and conceptual foundations, evaluate their efficacy, and review how each has been used.Contributors consider combinations of species and systems approaches for overall effectiveness in meeting conservation and ecosystem sustainability goals. They discuss the biological, legal, sociological, political, administrative, and economic dimensions by which conservation strategies can be gauged, in an effort to help managers determine which strategy or combination of strategies is most likely to meet their needs. Contributors also discuss practical considerations of implementing various strategies."Conservation of Rare or Little-Known Species" gives land managers access to a diverse literature and provides them with the basic information they need to select approaches that best suit their conservation objectives and ecological context. It is an important new work for anyone involved with developing land management or conservation plans.
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This work is a wake-up call that argues that although it may be too late to save biodiversity, we can take steps to save our ecosystems. With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can now predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear within the next 100 years. The species that survive will be the ones that are most compatible with us: the weedy species - from mosquitoes to coyotes - that thrive in continually disturbed human-dominated environments. "The End of the Wild" is a wake-up call. Marshaling evidence from the last ten years of research on the environment, Stephen Meyer argues that nothing - not national or international laws, global bioreserves, local sustainability schemes, or "wildlands" - will change the course that has been set. Like it or not, we can no longer talk about conserving nature, only managing what is left. The race to save biodiversity is over. But that doesn't mean our work is over. "The End of the Wild" is also a call to action. Without intervention, the surviving ecosystems we depend on for a range of services - including water purification and flood and storm damage control - could fail and the global spread of invasive species (pests, parasites, and disease-causing weedy species) could explode. If humanity is to survive, Meyer argues, we have no choice but to try to manage the fine details. We must move away from the current haphazard strategy of protecting species in isolation and create trans-regional "meta-reserves, " designed to protect ecosystem functions rather than species-specific habitats.
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• Impacts of demographic and socioeconomic factors on spatio-temporal dynamics of panda habitat
• L. An et al.- Avian species richness and numbers in the built environment: can new housing develpments be good for birds?
• C.F. Mason.- Indigenous knowledge and traditional conservation of fonio millet (Digitaria exilis, Digitaria iburua) in Togo
• H. Adoukonou-Sagbadja et al.- People and mammals in Mexico: conservation conflicts at a national scale
• L.-B. Vazquez, K.J. Gaston.- Urban domestic gardens (VI): environmental correlates of invertebrate species richness
• R.M. Smith et al.- Biodiversity conservation in sacred groves of Manipur, northeast India: population structure and regeneration status of woody species
• A.D. Khumbongmayum et al.- A numeric index to establish conservation priorities for medicinal plants in the Paravachasca Valley, Cordoba, Argentina
• G.J. Martinez et al.- Subsistence hunting and conservation issues in the game reserve of Gile, Mozambique
• A. Fusari, G.M. Carpaneto.- The catch and trade of seahorses in Vietnam
• B.G. Giles et al.- Urban domestic gardens (VIII): environmental correlates of invertebrate abundance
• R.M. Smith et al.- Effects of livestock grazing on aboveground insect communities in semi-arid grasslands of southeastern Arizona
• S.J. Debano.- Medicinal plants of the Argentine Yungas plants of the Las Yungas biosphere reserve, northwest of Argentina, used in health care
• N.I. Hilgert, G.E. Gil.- Hedges and green lanes: vegetation composition and structure
• M.P. Walker et al.- Biodiversity and land use change on the Causse Mejan, France
• E. O'Rourke.- Impact of game hunting by the Kayapo of south-eastern Arizona: implications for wildlife conservation in tropical forest indigenous reserves
• C.A. Peres, H.S. Nascimento.- Genetic diversity in traditional Ethiopian highland maize accessions assessed by AFLP markers and morphological traits
• Y. Beyene et al.- Towards a definition of a crop wild relative
• N. Maxted et al.- Household differentiation and on-farm conservation of biodiversity by indigenous households in Xishuangbanna, China
• F. Yongneng et al.- Convervation and documentation of the medicinal plant resources of India
• R. Bhattacharyya et al.- Wildlife in the life of local people of the semi-arid Argentine Chaco
• M. Altrichter.- An ethnobiological assessment of Rumohra adiantiformis (samambaia-preta) extractivism in southern Brazil
• G. Coelho de Souza et al.- Urban areas and isolated remnants of natural habitats: an action proposal for botanical gardens
• M.H.O. Pinheiro et al.- Impacts of community-based conservation on local communities in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal
• S.B. Bajracharya et al.- Stakeholder analysis of river restoration activity for eight years in a river channel
• A. Tanaka.- Resolving the conflicts between biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic development in China: fuzzy clustering approach
• Y. Lu et al.- The importance of stakeholder engagement in invasive species management: a cross-jurisdictional perspective in Ireland
• K.E. Stokes et al.-.
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This book gathers together a wide range of contributions addressing diverse aspects of front-line human involvement in biodiversity exploitation and conservation. As such they collectively provide a snap-shot of on-going action and state-of-the-art research, rather than a series of necessarily more superficial overviews. As such it is envisaged that it will be of particular interest to courses including biodiversity and/or conservation issues, and to advanced students and researchers working in related fields. The scope of these embraces cases involving birds, crop plants, invertebrates, land use changes, livestock, mammals, marine organisms, and medicinal plants and issues related to the importance of gardens, hedges and green lanes, housing developments, hunting, invasive species, local community involvement, sacred groves, socio-economic factors, and trade. Examples presented here come from studies in 17 countries including ones in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. All are topical cases to stimulate thoughts and future work programmes aiming to attain a sustainable balance between the conservation and sustainable exploitation of biodiversity.
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• Gardening the Earth / Bruce Babbitt and Jos Sarukhn
• Why biodiversity matters / Gretchen Daily
• Life on planet Ocean : present, past and future / Nancy Knowlton
• Governing the world's forests / Daniel Nepstad
• The many, the voracious, and the lethally successful / Robert Engelman
• Poverty, agriculture, and biodiversity / Rudy Rabbinge and Prem Bindraban
• Trade and biodiversity / Carlos Murillo
• Translating life's diversity / Jorge Sobern M.
• Markets for biodiversity services / Michael Jenkins, Sara J. Scherr, and Mira Inbar
• Multilateral and bilateral assistance policies and biodiversity / Mohamed El-Ashry.

Drafting a Conservation Blueprint lays out for the first time in book form a step-by-step planning process for conserving the biological diversity of entire regions. In an engaging and accessible style, the author explains how to develop a regional conservation plan and offers experience-based guidance that brings together relevant information from the fields of ecology, conservation biology, planning, and policy. Individual chapters outline and discuss the main steps of the planning process, including: an overview of the planning framework; selecting conservation targets and setting goals; assessing existing conservation areas and filling information gaps; assessing population viability and ecological integrity; selecting and designing a portfolio of conservation areas; assessing threats and setting priorities; A concluding section offers advice on turning conservation plans into action, along with specific examples from around the world. The book brings together a wide range of information about conservation planning that is grounded in both a strong scientific foundation and in the realities of implementation.
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Providing a step-by-step planning process for conserving the biological diversity of entire regions, this title explains how to develop a regional conservation plan. It offers guidance that brings together relevant information from the fields of ecology, conservation biology, planning and policy.
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