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Three essays on conservation: dynamic and spatial reserve design and values and preferences for ecosystem restoration
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Optimal Wildlife Reserve Site Selection with Spatially Correlated Risk
… There is a rich economics literature on the reserve site selection problem. However, most economic studies assume the independence of risks that affect wildlife species, leaving the issue of spatially correlated risk largely unexplored. This study contributes to the literature in twoaspects. …
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Movement of Selected Nearshore Temperate Reef Fishes Along California's Central Coast
… including the implementation of marine reserves. The diversity of goals and expected outcomes should guide the marine reserve design process, coupled with a thorough understanding of the ecology of all species targeted for protection. Central California’s network of coastal marine …
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From cost-effectiveness to economic-efficiency in conservation planning: the importance of considering the economic benefits of conservation
… conservation. Additional scenarios assessed how reserve design and costs changed when communal-land agriculture and resource use were weighted to account for the social costs of conservation. Opportunity costs were spatially variable and greatest in regions where mixed commercial farming was …
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Optimizing resource allocation in computational sustainability: Models, algorithms and tools
… and edge-weighted connectivity in wildlife reserve design. We use spatially explicit network models to capture the underlying system dynamics of interest in each setting, and contribute discrete optimization problem formulations for maximizing sustainability objectives with finite resources. …
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Systematic conservation planning and South Africa's Forest Biome: An assesment of the conservation status of South Africa's forest and reccomdentations for their conservation
… and context specific information within reserve selection were recognised. In response to this, a rule based modelling approach was used, that enables ecological heuristics to guide the selection of priority forests, This provided pragmatic, but not necessary mathematically optimal …