Craig Groves

Drafting a Conservation Blueprint (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Island Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781597269421
• Artikelnr.: 39076565

Autorenporträt

Craig R. Groves is Research Biologist and Conservation Planner for the Wildlife Conservation Society in the greater Yellowstone area. He worked for The Nature Conservancy for 13 years, first as a conservation biologist and then as Director of Conservation Planning, a position he held from 1997 to 2002.