Using Public Preferences to Weight Species Prioritization Criteria in Conservation Decision Making: A Case Study to Explore Potential Strengths and Weaknesses

摘要: The conservation of biodiversity depends on the implementation policy with limited financial resources. Due to this shortage resources, activities must be prioritized so that scarce funds are used rationally prevent long-term loss. To assure funding continuity, since it is public pays a significant part costs, imperative managers and policymakers apply in way makes people feel their concerns about loss addressed. Here we argue for preferences incorporated species decision making through criteria weighting. Public were analyzed two different contexts (abstract vs. concrete) understand how stable across elicitation procedures. Our results show some resilience ranking, functional importance being considered as top criterion ways questioning.