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The Influence of Changing Conservation Paradigms on Identifying Priority Protected Area Locations

The Influence of Changing Conservation Paradigms on Identifying Priority Protected Area Locations

Alan Grainger
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781609606190|ISBN10: 1609606191|EISBN13: 9781609606206
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-619-0.ch014
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Grainger, Alan. "The Influence of Changing Conservation Paradigms on Identifying Priority Protected Area Locations." Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications, edited by Yongyut Trisurat, et al., IGI Global, 2011, pp. 286-302. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-619-0.ch014

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Grainger, A. (2011). The Influence of Changing Conservation Paradigms on Identifying Priority Protected Area Locations. In Y. Trisurat, R. Shrestha, & R. Alkemade (Eds.), Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications (pp. 286-302). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-619-0.ch014

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Grainger, Alan. "The Influence of Changing Conservation Paradigms on Identifying Priority Protected Area Locations." In Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications, edited by Yongyut Trisurat, Rajendra P. Shrestha, and Rob Alkemade, 286-302. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2011. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-619-0.ch014

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Abstract

Conservation planning for climate change adaptation is only one in a long sequence of conservation paradigms. To identify priority locations for protected areas it must compete with three other contemporary paradigms: conservation of ecosystem services, optimizing conservation of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation, and reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. This chapter shows how conservation paradigms evolved, discusses the merits of different approaches to modelling potential impacts of climate change on biodiversity, and describes the hybrid BIOCLIMA model and its application to Amazonia. It then discusses conservation planning applications of the three other contemporary paradigms, illustrated by examples from Amazonia and Kenya. It finds that rapid paradigm evolution is not a handicap if earlier paradigms can be nested within later ones. But more sophisticated planning tools are needed to identify optimal locations of protected areas when climate is changing, and to use protection to mitigate climate change. These should encompass the complex interactions between biodiversity, hydrological services, carbon cycling services, climate change, and human systems.

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