title: Integrating resilience thinking and optimisation for conservation.
abstract: Conservation strategies need to be both effective and efficient to be successful. To this end, two bodies of research should be integrated, namely 'resilience thinking' and 'optimisation for conservation,' both of which are highly policy relevant but to date have evolved largely separately. Resilience thinking provides an integrated perspective for analysis, emphasising the potential of nonlinear changes and the interdependency of social and ecological systems. By contrast, optimisation for conservation is an outcome-oriented tool that recognises resource scarcity and the need to make rational and transparent decisions. Here we propose that actively embedding optimisation analyses within a resilience-thinking framework could draw on the complementary strengths of the two bodies of work, thereby promoting cost-effective and enduring conservation outcomes.
authors: The Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. joern.fischer@anu.edu.au
authors: Joern
authors: J
authors: Fischer
authors: Garry D
authors: GD
authors: Peterson
authors: Toby A
authors: TA
authors: Gardner
authors: Line J
authors: LJ
authors: Gordon
authors: Ioan
authors: I
authors: Fazey
authors: Thomas
authors: T
authors: Elmqvist
authors: Adam
authors: A
authors: Felton
authors: Carl
authors: C
authors: Folke
authors: Stephen
authors: S
authors: Dovers
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D006801:Humans; D013850:Thinking