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 (ie, species …

Research on ecosystem services has grown markedly in recent years. However, few studies
are embedded in a social process designed to ensure effective management of ecosystem …

Decisions determining the use of land for energy are of exigent concern as land scarcity, the
need for ecosystem services, and demands for energy generation have concomitantly …

Globally, ecosystems and their constituent flora and fauna face the localized and broad-
scale influence of human activities. Conservation practitioners and environmental managers …

Recently, China advanced a policy of establishing a protected area system with national
parks as the main body, and so the development of protected areas has entered a …

▪ Abstract Species extinctions and the deterioration of other biodiversity features worldwide
have led to the adoption of systematic conservation planning in many regions of the world …

A call has been made for conservation planners to include ecosystem services into their
assessments of conservation priority areas. The need to develop an integrated approach to …

The preoccupation of many conservation planners with the refinement of systematic
assessment techniques has manifested an “implementation crisis” in conservation planning …

Non-government organizations (NGOs), agencies and research groups around the world
have developed diverse approaches to conservation planning at the scale of landscapes …

Conservation plans are usually developed for regions that encompass only one
environmental realm (terrestrial, freshwater or marine) because of logistical, institutional and …