Biology

Drafting a Conservation Blueprint: A Practitioner's Guide To Planning For Biodiversity

    Foreword by
  • Malcolm Hunter

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Apr 15, 2013
2003
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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.