Systematic conservation planning (SCP) is a field of conservation biology concerned with
delivering on‐the‐ground actions that achieve conservation goals. It describes a set of …

Recent studies that incorporate the spatial distributions of biological benefits and economic
costs in conservation planning have shown that limited budgets can achieve substantially …

Expanding human population and economic growth have led to large-scale conversion of
natural habitat to human-dominated landscapes with consequent large-scale declines in …

Protected areas vary enormously in their contribution to conserving biodiversity, and the
inefficiency of protected area systems is widely acknowledged,,. However, conservation …

Romania's protected areas network currently covers 19.29% of the national territory, a
significant increase from the 4.1% protected prior to 1989. The increase occurred over the …

Conservation planning decisions are constrained by three important factors: budgets are
limited, important areas for biodiversity compete for space with other uses, and climate‐and …

The benefit (or additionality) attributable to a conservation action is the difference between
the outcomes of two scenarios:(1) the scenario with the conservation action, and (2) the …

Forests can play a significant role both in halting biodiversity loss and in mitigating climate
change. A variety of payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes exists to promote …

Several major environmental issues like biodiversity loss and climate change currently
concern the international community. These topics that are related to the development of …

Land and natural resource conservation programs are increasingly being evaluated on the
basis of their return on investment (ROI). Conservation ROI analysis quantitatively measures …