Trade-offs in Conservation: Deciding What to Save

Author:   Nigel Leader-Williams (University of Cambridge) ,  William M. Adams (University of Cambridge) ,  Robert J. Smith (University of Kent)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Pages:   432
Publication Date:   10 September 2010
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Nigel Leader-Williams (University of Cambridge) ,  William M. Adams (University of Cambridge) ,  Robert J. Smith (University of Kent)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.943kg
ISBN:  

9781405193849


ISBN 10:   1405193840
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   10 September 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contributors. Preface and Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Deciding What to Save: Trade-offs in Conservation (Nigel Leader-Williams, William M. Adams and Robert J. Smith). Current Approaches and Toolkits. 2. Prioritizing Trade-offs in Conservation (Kerrie A. Wilson, Michael Bode, Hedley Grantham and Hugh P. Possingham). 3. Trade-offs in Identifying Global Conservation Priority Areas (William Murdoch, Michael Bode, Jon Hoekstra, Peter Kareiva, Steve Polasky, Hugh P. Possingham and Kerrie A. Wilson). 4. Trade-offs in Making Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being Conservation Priorities (Rebecca L. Goldman, Gretchen C. Daily and Peter Kareiva). 5. Defining and Measuring Success in Conservation (Valerie Kapos, Andrea Manica, Rosalind Aveling, Philip Bubb, Peter Carey, Abigail Entwistle, John Hopkins, Teresa Mulliken, Roger Safford, Alison Stattersfield, Matthew J. Walpole and Andrew Balmford). Influence of Value Systems. 6. Conserving Invertebrates: How Many can be Saved, and How? (Michael J. Samways). 7. Trade-offs between Animal Welfare and Conservation in Law and Policy (Stuart R. Harrop). 8. Protection or Use: a Case of Nuanced Trade-offs? (Alison M. Rosser and Nigel Leader-Williams). 9. Whose Value Counts? Trade-offs between Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction (Dilys Roe and Matthew J. Walpole). 10. The Power of Traditions in Conservation (Katherine M. Homewood). Economics and Governance. 11. Misaligned Incentives and Trade-offs in Allocating Conservation Funding (Aaron Bruner, Eduard T. Niesten and Richard E. Rice). 12. Marketing and Conservation: How to Lose Friends and Influence People (Robert J. Smith, Diogo Veríssimo and Douglas C. MacMillan). 13. Trade-offs between Conservation and Extractive Industries (Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Bruno Monteferri and Juan Luis Dammert). 14. A Fighting Chance: can Conservation Create a Platform for Peace within Cycles of Human Conflict? (Rosalind Aveling, Helen Anthem and Annette Lanjouw). Social and Institutional Constraints. 15. Trading-off ‘Knowing’ Versus ‘Doing’ for Effective Conservation Planning (Andrew T. Knight and Richard M. Cowling). 16. Path Dependence in Conservation (William M. Adams). 17. Conservation Trade-offs and the Politics of Knowledge (J. Peter Brosius). Future Challenges. 18. Climatic Change and Conservation (Stephen G. Willis, David G. Hole and Brain Huntley). 19. Drivers of Biodiversity Change (Georgina M. Mace). 20. Another Entangled Bank: Making Conservation Trade-offs More Explicit (Robert J. Smith, William M. Adams and Nigel Leader-Williams). Index.

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It will, however, find a ready market amongst top undergraduateand postgraduate students as it is a compendium of good summaryfacts, definitions and diagrams with some superlative introductoryexpositions. For the same reasons I suspect most lecturers inconservation biology will want a book on their shelves. (Biological Conservation Reviewers, 2011) <p>


It will, however, find a ready market amongst top undergraduate and postgraduate students as it is a compendium of good summary facts, definitions and diagrams with some superlative introductory expositions. For the same reasons I suspect most lecturers in conservation biology will want a book on their shelves. (Biological Conservation Reviewers, 2011)


It will, however, find a ready market amongst top undergraduate and postgraduate students as it is a compendium of good summary facts, definitions and diagrams with some superlative introductory expositions. For the same reasons I suspect most lecturers in conservation biology will want a book on their shelves. (Biological Conservation Reviewers, 2011)<p>


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Nigel Leader-Williams became Director of Conservation Leadership, based in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, in 2009. Previously he was Director of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent. His research focuses on sustainable resource use and human-wildlife conflict. William M. Adams is Moran Professor of Conservation and Development. He is based in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, where he has taught since 1984. His research focuses on the social dimensions of conservation in Africa and the UK. He is a Trustee of Fauna and Flora International. Robert J. Smith is a Research Fellow at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent. His research interests include protected area network design, conservation and corruption, and the influence of marketing in conservation.

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