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Drafting a Conservation Blueprint lays out for the first time in book form a step-by-step planning process for conserving the biological diversity of entire regions. In an engaging and accessible style, the author explains how to develop a regional conservation plan and offers experience-based guidance that brings together relevant information from the fields of ecology, conservation biology, planning, and policy. Individual chapters outline and discuss the main steps of the planning process, including: an overview of the planning framework; selecting conservation targets and setting goals; assessing existing conservation areas and filling information gaps; assessing population viability and ecological integrity; selecting and designing a portfolio of conservation areas; assessing threats and setting priorities; A concluding section offers advice on turning conservation plans into action, along with specific examples from around the world. The book brings together a wide range of information about conservation planning that is grounded in both a strong scientific foundation and in the realities of implementation.

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oDrafting a Conservation Blueprint is practical enough to be called a handbook, scholarly enough to be called a textbook, and thorough enough to be called a treatise.o --Ecology oThis depth of treatment is particularly welcome at the present time, some 15 years after the begining of the biodiversity movement: at least once in a generation we need to take stock on most subjects, and this conservation-and planning-oriented work may someday be viewed in the same light as the 1988 collection aeBiodiversity, ae edited by Edward O Wilson, that started it all.o --C. H. Smith, Choice

Drafting a Conservation Blueprint is practical enough to be called a handbook, scholarly enough to be called a textbook, and thorough enough to be called a treatise. --Ecology Drafting a Conservation Blueprint is highly recommended for any conservation practitioner involved in landscape-scale or regional conservation planning, as well as agency staff, students, and those looking for efficient ways to focus scant conservation dollars in a region. --Wild Earth Practical books are often unreadable and theoretical tomes are often impractical. This is that rare book that combines the virtues of both. No planner who deals with nature can afford to be without it. --Planning

Practical books are often unreadable and theoretical tomes are often impractical. This is that rare book that combines the virtues of both. No planner who deals with nature can afford to be without it. -- Planning Drafting a Conservation Blueprint is highly recommended for any conservation practitioner involved in landscape-scale or regional conservation planning, as well as agency staff, students, and those looking for efficient ways to focus scant conservation dollars in a region. -- Wild Earth Drafting a Conservation Blueprint is practical enough to be called a handbook, scholarly enough to be called a textbook, and thorough enough to be called a treatise. -- Ecology

oThis depth of treatment is particularly welcome at the present time, some 15 years after the begining of the biodiversity movement: at least once in a generation we need to take stock on most subjects, and this conservation-and planning-oriented work may someday be viewed in the same light as the 1988 collection aeBiodiversity, ae edited by Edward O Wilson, that started it all.o --C. H. Smith, Choice

Practical books are often unreadable and theoretical tomes are often impractical. This is that rare book that combines the virtues of both. No planner who deals with nature can afford to be without it. --Planning Drafting a Conservation Blueprint is practical enough to be called a handbook, scholarly enough to be called a textbook, and thorough enough to be called a treatise. --Ecology Drafting a Conservation Blueprint is highly recommended for any conservation practitioner involved in landscape-scale or regional conservation planning, as well as agency staff, students, and those looking for efficient ways to focus scant conservation dollars in a region. --Wild Earth

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Craig R. Groves is Research Biologist and Conservation Planner for the Wildlife Conservation Society in the greater Yellowstone area. He worked for The Nature Conservancy for 13 years, first as a conservation biologist and then as Director of Conservation Planning, a position he held from 1997 to 2002.

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