Locking planning units in or out. Manually including or excluding individual planning units is useful where a real-world issue affects where new protected areas or conservation actions can be designated. For example, if you know that a particular group of planning...
Scheduling. It is rarely possible that priority areas for conservation action identified through systematic conservation planning can realistically be implemented in a single time step. This may be due to socio-economic or financial implementation constraints....
Scenario Development. A scenario is an account of a plausible future. Scenario planning consists of using a few contrasting scenarios to explore the uncertainty surrounding the future consequences of a decision. Ideally, scenarios should be constructed by a diverse...
Understanding trade-offs and trade-off curves. A trade-off is a decision that involves diminishing or losing one quality, quantity, or property of a set or design in return for gains in other aspects. In other words, a tradeoff is where one thing increases, and...
Using condition data. In spatial conservation planning ecosystem condition plays an increasingly important role for identifying priorities for conservation action. Earth's ecosystems are not only either intact or damaged - many are somewhere in between. Their...
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