scholarly journals A framework for mapping cultural resources in landscape conservation planning

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. e41 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Scott Ogletree ◽  
Robert B. Powell ◽  
Robert F. Baldwin ◽  
Paul B. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Landscape Conservation

scholarly journals Providing more protected space for tigers Panthera tigris: a landscape conservation approach in the Western Ghats, southern India

Oryx ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 336-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Gubbi ◽  
Kaushik Mukherjee ◽  
M.H. Swaminath ◽  
H.C. Poornesha
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Area Network ◽  
Panthera Tigris ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Protected Area Network ◽  
Indian State

AbstractConservation of large carnivores is challenging as they face various threats, including habitat loss and fragmentation. One of the current challenges to tiger Panthera tigris conservation in India is the conversion of habitat to uses that are incompatible with conservation of the species. Bringing more tiger habitat within a protected area system and in the process creating a network of connected protected areas will deliver dual benefits of wildlife conservation and protection of watersheds. Focusing on the southern Indian state of Karnataka, which holds one of the largest contiguous tiger populations, we attempted to address this challenge using a conservation planning technique that considers ecological, social and political factors. This approach yielded several conservation successes, including an expansion of the protected area network by 2,385 km2, connection of 23 protected areas, and the creation of three complexes of protected areas, increasing the protected area network in Karnataka from 3.8 to 5.2% of the state's land area. This represents the largest expansion of protected areas in India since the 1970s. Such productive partnerships between government officials and conservationists highlight the importance of complementary roles in conservation planning and implementation.

scholarly journals Natural Icons and Threats: An Approach to Landscape Conservation Planning

PARKS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brendan Mackey ◽  
Peter Jacobs ◽  
Luciana Porfirio ◽  
Sonia Hugh
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Landscape Conservation

THE IMPORTANCE OF SPRINGS AS ECOSYSTEMS AND IN LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION PLANNING

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham E. Springer ◽  
◽  
Lawrence E. Stevens ◽  
Jeri Ledbetter
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Landscape Conservation

Investigating the Role of Archaeological Information and Practice in Landscape Conservation Design and Planning in North America

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 382-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Murtha ◽  
Nathan R. Lawres ◽  
Tara J. Mazurczyk ◽  
Madeline Brown
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Landscape Conservation Cooperatives ◽  
Conservation Design

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this article is to discuss the challenges and opportunities for integrating archaeological information in landscape-scale conservation design while aligning archaeological practice with design and planning focused on cultural resources. Targeting this opportunity begins with statewide archaeological databases. Here, we compare the structure and content of Pennsylvania's and Florida's statewide archaeological databases, identifying opportunities for leveraging these data in landscape conservation design and planning. The research discussed here was part of a broader project, which was working through the lens of Landscape Conservation Cooperatives in order to develop processes for integrating broadly conceived cultural resources with natural resources as part of multistate or regional landscape conservation design efforts. Landscape Conservation Cooperatives offer new ways to think about archaeological information in practice and potentially new ways for archaeology to contribute to design and planning. Statewide archaeological databases, in particular, offer transformative potential for integrating cultural resource priorities in landscape conservation design. Targeted coordination across state boundaries along with the development of accessible derivative databases are two priorities to advance their utility.

A Multispecies Framework for Landscape Conservation Planning

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 1010-1021 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. SCOTT SCHWENK ◽  
THERESE M. DONOVAN
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Landscape Conservation

scholarly journals Indicator-Driven Conservation Planning Across Terrestrial, Freshwater Aquatic, and Marine Ecosystems of the South Atlantic, USA

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley A. Pickens ◽  
Rua S. Mordecai ◽  
C. Ashton Drew ◽  
Louise B. Alexander-Vaughn ◽  
Amy S. Keister ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Level ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Fine Scale ◽  
The South ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Conservation Plan ◽  
Broad Scale

Abstract Systematic conservation planning, a widely used approach to identify priority lands and waters, uses efficient, defensible, and transparent methods aimed at conserving biodiversity and ecological systems. Limited financial resources and competing land uses can be major impediments to conservation; therefore, participation of diverse stakeholders in the planning process is advantageous to help address broad-scale threats and challenges of the 21st century. Although a broad extent is needed to identify core areas and corridors for fish and wildlife populations, a fine-scale resolution is needed to manage for multiple, interconnected ecosystems. Here, we developed a conservation plan using a systematic approach to promote landscape-level conservation within the extent of the South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative. Our objective was to identify the highest-ranked 30% of lands and waters within the South Atlantic deemed necessary to conserve ecological and cultural integrity for the 10 primary ecosystems of the southeastern United States. These environments varied from terrestrial, freshwater aquatic, and marine. The planning process was driven by indicators of ecosystem integrity at a 4-ha resolution. We used the program Zonation and 28 indicators to optimize the identification of lands and waters to meet the stated objective. A novel part of our study was the prioritization of multiple ecosystems, and we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach. The evaluation of indicator representation within prioritizations was a useful method to show where improvements could be made; some indicators dictated hotspots, some had a limited extent and were well represented, and others had a limited effect. Overall, we demonstrate that a broad-scale (408,276 km2 of terrestrial and 411,239 km2 of marine environments) conservation plan can be realized at a fine-scale resolution, which will allow implementation of the regional plan at a local level relevant to decision making.

scholarly journals Landscape Conservation Planning to Sustain Ecosystem Services under Climate Change

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1393 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu-Pin Lin ◽  
Chi-Ju Chen ◽  
Wan-Yu Lien ◽  
Wen-Hao Chang ◽  
Joy Petway ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Conservation Planning ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Conservation Strategy ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Landscape Conservation ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Stability And Resilience

Sustainable conservation aims to ensure the sustained conservation of landscape multi-functionality which in turn requires ensuring ecosystem service (ES) and habitat quality (HQ) sustainability with inclusive landscape-scale conservation planning. This study proposes a landscape conservation planning (LCP) framework for landscape-scale ES-HQ conservation and sustainability. Spatially explicit hotspots for five ESs and HQs are identified via InVEST and LISA software. Spatiotemporal changes in ES-HQ hotspots, in terms of stability and resilience, are delineated. The Zonation technique is applied to prioritize areas for conservation based on ES-HQ hotspot stability and resilience maps. High priority conservation areas are identified and are used as reserve area inputs for land use modeling with CLUE-S software to simulate future land use change under climate change scenarios. This study reports that varied rainfall and climate are major driving factors of ES-HQ sustainability disturbance in the study area. Furthermore, our proposed conservation Strategy 2 demonstrates that a larger extent of landscape multi-functionality can be sustained when the existing conservation area includes the total area of identified ES-HQ resilient hotspots. This study effectively identifies the stability and resiliency of ES-HQ hotspot areas affected by disturbances for high priority landscape conservation requirements to ensure ES-HQ sustainability and landscape multi-functionality in the study area.

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