Trade-offs in the design of cost-effective habitat networks when conservation costs are variable in space and time

Integrating conservation and development

Integrating conservation and development: effective trade-offs between biodiversity and cost in the selection of protected areas

✍ D. P. Faith; P. A. Walker 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 915 KB

Strategies are needed for reconciling competing demands at the regional level when areas are to be selected for protection and there are associated costs, possibly equivalent to forgone development opportunties. As an alternative to the fixed scaling (or weighting) of costs and benefits required by