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Diseño de Conservación Considerando el Clima: Directrices y Estudios de Caso
Author(s) -
HANSEN LARA,
HOFFMAN JENNIFER,
DREWS CARLOS,
MIELBRECHT ERIC
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
conservation biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.2
H-Index - 222
eISSN - 1523-1739
pISSN - 0888-8892
DOI - 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01404.x
Subject(s) - climate change , environmental resource management , coral reef , geography , adaptation (eye) , environmental planning , work (physics) , effects of global warming , resource (disambiguation) , adaptive management , mangrove , global warming , ecology , computer science , engineering , environmental science , mechanical engineering , computer network , physics , optics , biology
To be successful, conservation practitioners and resource managers must fully integrate the effects of climate change into all planning projects. Some conservation practitioners are beginning to develop, test, and implement new approaches that are designed to deal with climate change. We devised four basic tenets that are essential in climate‐change adaptation for conservation: protect adequate and appropriate space, reduce nonclimate stresses, use adaptive management to implement and test climate‐change adaptation strategies, and work to reduce the rate and extent of climate change to reduce overall risk. To illustrate how this approach applies in the real world, we explored case studies of coral reefs in the Florida Keys; mangrove forests in Fiji, Tanzania, and Cameroon; sea‐level rise and sea turtles in the Caribbean; tigers in the Sundarbans of India; and national planning in Madagascar. Through implementation of these tenets conservation efforts in each of these regions can be made more robust in the face of climate change. Although these approaches require reconsidering some traditional approaches to conservation, this new paradigm is technologically, economically, and intellectually feasible.