Shaping the Future with Conservation Planning
The need for this book coalesced over an eight-year period, 1999-2007, during which the Craighead Institute 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. For more information about the book, click here.
Working titles for the book chapters are:
1. Introduction. Shaping the Future: Lance Craighead and Charles Convis
2. Integrating Conservation Planning Across Multiple Scales: Robert Unnasch and Jason Karl
3. Landcover Data; the Foundation for Planning. Tom Olenicki
4. Selecting Focal Species for a Comprehensive Conservation Umbrella: Eric C. Atkinson and Brent L. Brock
5. Identification and Assessment of Habitat Quality for Conservation of Terrestrial Animals: Brett Dickson, Steve Sesnie, Erica Fleishman and David Dobkin
6. Marine and Freshwater Conservation Planning: from Representation to Persistence: Natalie Ban, Stephanie Januchowski, Jorge Alvarez-Romero, Morena Mills, Robert L. Pressey, Simon Linke, and Debora de Freitas
7. How to Identify and Map Habitat Cores: Richard Church
8. Modeling Conservation Linkages: Peter Singleton and Brad McRae
9. Planning to Ensure Viability of Populations and Metapopulations: Jessica Stanton and Resit Akcakaya
10. Optimization Models for Reserve Site Selection and Design: Justin C. Williams
11. Integrating Conservation Planning with Human Communities, Ecosystem Services, and Economics: Kai Chan, Robin Naidoo, and Natalie Ban
12. Integrating Conservation Planning with Projected Trends in Land-use: Dave Theobald
13. Integrating Conservation Planning with Projected Trends in Climate Change: Dominique Bachelet
14. Mapping Biological Processes to the Appropriate Spatial Modeling Tools: Kevin M. Johnston, David Western, and Rodney Jackson
15. Summary and Discussion: Frank Davis
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. For more information about the book, click here.
Working titles for the book chapters are:
1. Introduction. Shaping the Future: Lance Craighead and Charles Convis
2. Integrating Conservation Planning Across Multiple Scales: Robert Unnasch and Jason Karl
3. Landcover Data; the Foundation for Planning. Tom Olenicki
4. Selecting Focal Species for a Comprehensive Conservation Umbrella: Eric C. Atkinson and Brent L. Brock
5. Identification and Assessment of Habitat Quality for Conservation of Terrestrial Animals: Brett Dickson, Steve Sesnie, Erica Fleishman and David Dobkin
6. Marine and Freshwater Conservation Planning: from Representation to Persistence: Natalie Ban, Stephanie Januchowski, Jorge Alvarez-Romero, Morena Mills, Robert L. Pressey, Simon Linke, and Debora de Freitas
7. How to Identify and Map Habitat Cores: Richard Church
8. Modeling Conservation Linkages: Peter Singleton and Brad McRae
9. Planning to Ensure Viability of Populations and Metapopulations: Jessica Stanton and Resit Akcakaya
10. Optimization Models for Reserve Site Selection and Design: Justin C. Williams
11. Integrating Conservation Planning with Human Communities, Ecosystem Services, and Economics: Kai Chan, Robin Naidoo, and Natalie Ban
12. Integrating Conservation Planning with Projected Trends in Land-use: Dave Theobald
13. Integrating Conservation Planning with Projected Trends in Climate Change: Dominique Bachelet
14. Mapping Biological Processes to the Appropriate Spatial Modeling Tools: Kevin M. Johnston, David Western, and Rodney Jackson
15. Summary and Discussion: Frank Davis
