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Shaping
the Future:
Conservation Planning from the Bottom-Up
The
need for this book coalesced over
an eight-year period,
1999-2007, during which CERI held an annual meeting and workshop at the
BBar
Ranch near Livingston,
MT. Conservation
scientists from a variety of
organizations and disciplines
would meet informally to discuss various conservation projects and
problems. It
provided a fertile ground for cross-disciplinary innovation and
collaboration.
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Through
meetings, and discussions with
colleagues at ESRI
and the Society for Conservation Biology, we assembled a team of
authors to
contribute key chapters to a book. It will be published by ESRI Press
in 2011
and the Society for Conservation Biology will facilitate peer review of
all the
chapters.
The
book, Shaping
the
Future: Conservation Planning from the bottom up,
focuses on
computer-based
tools and procedures that are accessible to anyone working to plan a
landscape
for conservation.
Our goal is to
make
scientifically credible conservation planning available to a wider
audience of
conservation practitioners, particularly those in other regions of North America
and around the world who may not
have
access to original sources. The
book is
also intended for government professionals, planners in city, county
and state
agencies, and students and policy makers. It
is the first step towards working together with
standardized tools
and approaches to achieve a common goal: the maintenance of
biodiversity and
ecosystem function.
Working
titles for the book chapters
are:
- Introduction:
Shaping
the Future - Lance Craighead
and Charles
Convis
- Modeling
the ecology
and behavior of wildlife: how to responsibly map the biology of a
species to the algorithm - Kevin Johnston
- Integrating
Conservation Planning Across Multiple Scales - Robert Unnasch
- Landcover
Data; the
foundation for planning - Tom Olenicki
- How to
Determine
Appropriate Focal Species: Selecting
Focal Species for
a Comprehensive Conservation Umbrella -
Eric C. Atkinson and
Brent L. Brock
- Habitat
Suitability 1:
Identifying important terrestrial habitat and bird habitat for
conservation - Brett Dickson and Steven Sesnie
- Habitat
Suitability 2:
Identifying important aquatic habitat and marine habitat for
conservation. Conservation planning for freshwater and ocean - Robert
L. Pressey,
Jorge Alvarez-Romero, Natalie Ban, Debora de Freitas, Stephanie Januchowski,
Simon
Linke, and Morena
Mills
- How to
Identify and Map
Habitat Cores - Richard Church
- Modeling
Conservation
Linkages - Peter Singleton and Brad McRae
- Planning
to ensure
viability of populations and metapopulations - Jessica Stanton
and Resit Akcakaya
- How to
Develop Optimal,
cost-effective solutions. Optimization
Models for
Reserve Site Selection -
Justin C. Williams
- Integrating
conservation planning with local human economies: an ecosystem services
approach - Author TBD
- Integrating
Conservation Planning with projected trends in land-use - Dave Theobald
- Integrating
Conservation Planning with projected trends in climate change.
-Dominique Bachelet
- Summary
and Discussion
- Frank
Davis
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