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Marine aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry that presents both opportunities and risks for the environment and society. Whether aquatic farming (bivalves and finfish) in the ocean can mitigate food security concerns and be done without significant ecological impact depends in large part on the governance infrastructure of the sector. This stud...
Government funding accounts for a large proportion of conservation and environmental improvements, and is often the result of citizen votes on state ballot measures. A key concern surrounding public investments in the environment is whether that funding serves lower-income communities, which are often the communities of greatest need. We applied th...
Predicted magnitude of grant funding (Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9).
Predicted grant funding for selected variables holding all others constant.
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Predicted magnitude of grant funding (All Chapters and Chapters 2, 3, 5).
Predicted grant funding for selected variables holding all others constant.
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Epic tales of existential catastrophe have been written down for thousands of years, and in Christian traditions were linked to the punishment of humanity for its sins. We are still imagining new storylines for the end-of-civilization, with a rich genre of Hollywood films depicting either the struggles of remnant humans in a post-apocalyptic world,...
Marine aquaculture presents an opportunity for increasing seafood production in the face of growing demand for marine protein and limited scope for expanding wild fishery harvests. However, the global capacity for increased aquaculture production from the ocean and the relative productivity potential across countries are unknown. Here, we map the b...
The annual brown alga Postelsia palmaeformis is dependent for its survival on short-distance dispersal (SDD) where it is already established, as well as occasional long-distance colonization of novel sites. To quantify SDD, we transplanted Postelsia to sites lacking established plants within ≥10 m. The spatial distribution of the first naturally pr...
Robert T. Paine, who passed away on 13 June 2016, is among the most influential people in the history of ecology. Paine was an experimentalist, a theoretician, a practitioner and proponent of the “ecology of place”, and a deep believer in the importance of natural history to ecological understanding. His scientific legacy grew from the discovery of...
Genetically engineered (GE) crops were first introduced commercially in the 1990s. After two decades of production, some groups and individuals remain critical of the technology based on their concerns about possible adverse effects on human health, the environment, and ethical considerations. At the same time, others are concerned that the technol...
Human activity is dramatically shaping all of Earth's natural systems, producing unprecedented challenges for people and nature. Climate disruption, altered hydrology, and ecosystem degradation reflect both threats to human wellbeing and changes in the 'rules of the game' that make management difficult. While ecologists, conservationists and enviro...
Kirchhoff (1) highlights inherent difficulties in organizing the rationales that motivate conservation. The author provides two critiques: first, that our conservation objective typology aggregates conflicting subgoals, and second that the objectives are not mutually exclusive (2). We contend that homogenous and mutually exclusive typologies are ne...
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Conservationists have become embroiled in debates over different motivations for conserving nature. One path forward is to acknowledge that nature is valued for many reasons and that managing for one objective can fail to achieve others. We categorize conservation objectives and provide a framework for comparing trade-offs between alte...
The central challenge of the 21st century is to develop economic, social, and governance systems capable of ending poverty and achieving sustainable levels of population and consumption while securing the life-support systems underpinning current and future human well-being. Essential to meeting this challenge is the incorporation of natural capita...
Multinational corporations play a prominent role in shaping the environmental trajectory of the planet. The integration of environmental costs and benefits into corporate decision-making has enormous, but as yet unfulfilled, potential to promote sustainable development. To help steer business decisions toward better environmental outcomes, corporat...
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Deforestation is a major threat to biodiversity and many ecosystem services and is closely linked to agricultural expansion. Sustainability assessment of different agricultural products and policies requires an understanding of the impacts of land conversion resulting from shifts in demand or incentives for production. The prevailing a...
An expanded model for heading off planetary tipping points offers much
to both optimists and the apocalyptically inclined, finds Peter Kareiva.
Over the past decade, efforts to value and protect ecosystem services have been promoted by many as the last, best hope for making conservation mainstream - attractive and commonplace worldwide. In theory, if we can help individuals and institutions to recognize the value of nature, then this should greatly increase investments in conservation, whi...
Monitoring is a compromise response to environmental debates Environmentalists are concerned with the risks associated with transgenic crops, whereas many promoters of biotechnology can see only benefits [1]. As with many such debates, the solution is a compromise, which may satisfy neither side. One key to making both parties agree to such a compr...
Refecting what a new generation of conservation biologists is doing and thinking, this vital and far ranging second edition explores where conservation biology is heading. It challenges many conventions of conservation biology by exposing certain weaknesses of widely accepted principles. Combining contributions from both the school and the new bree...
The practice of conservation is often a form of land management. One of the most powerful approaches for connecting the needs of a particular species with land usage is the linking of biologically-detailed models of that species dispersal and demography with geographic information systems (GIS). For example, juvenile spotted owls must depart their...
Every reader will find some favorite topic in conservation biology missing from this book. Where is the discussion of biodiversity and its function, for example? Why isn’t there a chapter on ecosystem management, because we all know that single-species conservation is passé? Why is there no explicit discussion of mapping biodiversity? or of remote...
Reflecting a new generation of conservation biologists' upper-division and graduate level conservation biology courses, as well as for individual reference, this book incorporates a number of new authors and additional chapters, covering all aspects of one of the most dynamic areas in the life sciences. Containing ten additional chapters, it includ...