Making Tough Choices: Picking the Appropriate Conservation Decision-Making Tool

摘要: Conservation practitioners face complex challenges due to resource limitations, biological and socioeconomic trade-offs, involvement of diverse interest groups, data deficiencies. To help address these challenges, there are a growing number frameworks for systematic decision making. Three prominent structured making, conservation prioritization, reviews. These have numerous conceptual linkages, offer rigorous transparent solutions problems. However, they differ in their assumptions applicability. Here, we provide guidance on how choose among solving problems, identify less techniques when time or availability limit options. Each framework emphasizes the need proper problem consideration formulation, includes steps monitoring evaluation. We recommend clear documented adopting decision-making processes, archiving results global database support professionals making evidence-based decisions future. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved