作者
Andrew T Knight, Richard M Cowling, Mathieu Rouget, Andrew Balmford, Amanda T Lombard, Bruce M Campbell
发表日期
2008/6
来源
Conservation biology
卷号
22
期号
3
页码范围
610-617
出版商
Blackwell Publishing Inc
简介
Conservation assessment is a rapidly evolving discipline whose stated goal is the design of networks of protected areas that represent and ensure the persistence of nature (i.e., species, habitats, and environmental processes) by separating priority areas from the activities that degrade or destroy them. Nevertheless, despite a burgeoning scientific literature that ever refines these techniques for allocating conservation resources, it is widely believed that conservation assessments are rarely translated into actions that actually conserve nature. We reviewed the conservation assessment literature in peer‐reviewed journals and conducted survey questionnaires of the authors of these studies. Two‐thirds of conservation assessments published in the peer‐reviewed scientific literature do not deliver conservation action, primarily because most researchers never plan for implementation. This research–implementation …
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