Robust Conservation Decision-Making
Publication: Vulnerability, Uncertainty, and Risk: Analysis, Modeling, and Management
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Decision-making for conservation is conducted within the margins of limited funding. Furthermore, to allocate these scarce resources we make assumptions about the relationship between management impact and expenditure. The structure of these relationships, however, is rarely known with certainty. We present a summary of work investigating the impact of model uncertainty on robust decision-making in conservation and how this is affected by available conservation funding. We show that achieving robustness in conservation decisions can require a triage approach, and emphasize the need for managers to consider triage not as surrendering but as rational decision making to ensure species persistence in light of the urgency of the conservation problems, uncertainty, and the poor state of conservation funding. We illustrate this theory by a specific application to allocation of funding to reduce poaching impact on the Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris sumatrae in Kerinci Seblat National Park, Indonesia.
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© 2011 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Published online: Apr 26, 2012
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- Buildings
- Business management
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Continuum mechanics
- Decision making
- Disaster risk management
- Dynamics (solid mechanics)
- Engineering mechanics
- Facilities (by type)
- Financial management
- Financing
- Freight transportation
- Infrastructure
- Logistics
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- Motion (dynamics)
- Personnel (type)
- Personnel management
- Practice and Profession
- Project management
- Resource allocation
- Resource management
- Risk management
- Solid mechanics
- Stadiums and sport facilities
- Structural engineering
- Structures (by type)
- Transportation engineering
- Uncertainty principles
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