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Costos de la Integración de Economía y Planificación de la Conservación
Author(s) -
ARPONEN ANNI,
CABEZA MAR,
EKLUND JOHANNA,
KUJALA HEINI,
LEHTOMÄKI JOONA
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.1523-1739.2010.01539.x
Subject(s) - biodiversity conservation , economics , forgetting , conservation psychology , environmental resource management , biodiversity , business , natural resource economics , ecology , psychology , cognitive psychology , biology
Recent literature on systematic conservation planning has focused strongly on economics . It is a necessary component of efficient conservation planning because the question is about effective resource allocation . Nevertheless, there is an increasing tendency toward economic factors overriding biological considerations . Focusing too narrowly on economic cost may lead us back toward solutions resembling those obtained by opportunistic choice of areas, the avoidance of which was the motivation for development of systematic approaches . Moreover, there are many overlooked difficulties in incorporating economic considerations reliably into conservation planning because available economic data and the free market are complex . For instance, economies based on free markets tend to be shortsighted, whereas biodiversity conservation aims far into the future . Although economic data are necessary, they should not be relied on too heavily or considered separately from other sociopolitical factors . We suggest focusing on development of more‐comprehensive ecological‐economic modeling, while not forgetting the importance of purely biological analyses that are needed as a point of reference for evaluating conservation outcomes .