Trade‐Offs between Conservation and Extractive Industries

Pulgar‐Vidal, Manuel; Monteferri, Bruno; Dammert, Juan Luis

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“…The conclusions from these chapters are applicable for other areas with a similar resource conflict. For example, South America is biologically diverse; however, the countries within Latin America have extreme poverty, especially in rural areas, and, often, major industries are based on resource extraction (Pulgar-Vidal et al 2010). South America is home to many medicinal plant species (Roth and Lindorf 2002), some which may be able to be classified as 'cultural keystone species' .…”

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The Root of Sustainability: Investigating the relationship between medicinal plant conservation and surface mining in Appalachia

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Insights from life history theory for an explicit treatment of trade-offs in conservation biology

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2015

Conservation Biology

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As economic and social contexts become more embedded within biodiversity conservation, it becomes obvious that resources are a limiting factor in conservation. This recognition is leading conservation scientists and practitioners to increasingly frame conservation decisions as trade-offs between conflicting societal objectives. However, this framing is all too often done in an intuitive way, rather than by addressing trade-offs explicitly. In contrast, the concept of trade-off is a keystone in evolutionary biology, where it has been investigated extensively. I argue that insights from evolutionary theory can provide methodological and theoretical support to evaluating and quantifying trade-offs in biodiversity conservation. I reviewed the diverse ways in which trade-offs have emerged within the context of conservation and how advances from evolutionary theory can help avoid the main pitfalls of an implicit approach. When studying both evolutionary trade-offs (e.g., reproduction vs. survival) and conservation trade-offs (e.g., biodiversity conservation vs. agriculture), it is crucial to correctly identify the limiting resource, hold constant the amount of this resource when comparing different scenarios, and choose appropriate metrics to quantify the extent to which the objectives have been achieved. Insights from studies in evolutionary theory also reveal how an inadequate selection of conservation solutions may result from considering suboptimal rather than optional solutions when examining whether a trade-off exits between 2 objectives. Furthermore, the shape of a trade-off curve (i.e., whether the relationship between 2 objectives follows a concave, convex, or linear form) is known to affect crucially the definition of optimal solutions in evolutionary biology and very likely affects decisions in biodiversity conservation planning too. This interface between evolutionary biology and biodiversity conservation can therefore provide methodological guidance to support decision makers in the difficult task of choosing among conservation solutions.

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Trade‐Offs between Conservation and Extractive Industries

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The Root of Sustainability: Investigating the relationship between medicinal plant conservation and surface mining in Appalachia

The Root of Sustainability: Investigating the relationship between medicinal plant conservation and surface mining in Appalachia

Insights from life history theory for an explicit treatment of trade-offs in conservation biology

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