There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in
conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet …

Incorporation of concepts from landscape ecology into understanding and managing
riverine ecosystems has become widely known as riverscape ecology. Riverscape ecology …

Agri-environmental incentive programs seek to compensate farmers for changes to enhance
ecosystem services and/or biodiversity, yet enrolling participants is a common challenge …

Increasingly, voluntary conservation programs are targeted at farmers to contribute to
biodiversity conservation through tailored on-farm conservation activities. Such programs …

Over 240 updates to text and tables, 275 new citations, and new figures in every chapter,
Increased representation of women and BIPOC in the textbook, Significant edits and …

Private land conservation is an increasingly popular approach to protect critical biodiversity.
In the Western Cape Province of South Africa private land conservation is the focal strategy …

Private land conservation (PLC) is an increasingly recognized strategy to help address the
global biodiversity crisis. Understanding landowners' context-dependent preferences for …

A variety of policy instruments are used to promote the conservation of biodiversity on
private land. These instruments are often employed in unison to encourage land …

While efforts to reverse the current global environmental crisis increase, we are still
experiencing unprecedented rates of species' extinctions. Traditional cultural landscapes …

Conservation easements offer sustainable land use and environmental conservation
through land use restrictions. Opportunities exist to improve the efficiency by which parties …