title: Conservation planning in a changing world.
abstract: Conservation planning is the process of locating, configuring, implementing and maintaining areas that are managed to promote the persistence of biodiversity and other natural values. Conservation planning is inherently spatial. The science behind it has solved important spatial problems and increasingly influenced practice. To be effective, however, conservation planning must deal better with two types of change. First, biodiversity is not static in time or space but generated and maintained by natural processes. Second, humans are altering the planet in diverse ways at ever faster rates.
authors.affiliation: The Ecology Centre, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia. bob.pressey@jcu.edu.au
authors.forename: Robert L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Pressey
authors.forename: Mar
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cabeza
authors.forename: Matthew E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Watts
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Cowling
authors.forename: Kerrie A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D010934:Planning Techniques; D012922:Social Change