title: Structuring decisions for managing threatened and endangered species in a changing climate.
abstract: The management of endangered species under climate change is a challenging and often controversial task that incorporates input from a variety of different environmental, economic, social, and political interests. Yet many listing and recovery decisions for endangered species unfold on an ad hoc basis without reference to decision-aiding approaches that can improve the quality of management choices. Unlike many treatments of this issue, which consider endangered species management a science-based problem, we suggest that a clear decision-making process is equally necessary. In the face of new threats due to climate change, managers' choices about endangered species require closely linked analyses and deliberations that identify key objectives and develop measurable attributes, generate and compare management alternatives, estimate expected consequences and key sources of uncertainty, and clarify trade-offs across different dimensions of value. Several recent cases of endangered species conservation decisions illustrate our proposed decision-focused approach, including Gulf of Maine Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) recovery framework development, Cultus Lake sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) management, and Upper Columbia River white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) recovery planning. Estructuración de Decisiones para Manejar Especies Amenazadas y en Peligro en un Clima Cambiante.
authors.affiliation: Decision Research, Galiano Island, 1160 Devina Drive, BC, V0N 1P0, Canada. robin.gregory@ires.ubc.ca.
authors.forename: Robin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gregory
authors.forename: Joseph
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Arvai
authors.forename: Leah R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Gerber
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D057231:Climate Change; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods*; D003657:Decision Making; D056727:Endangered Species / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005399:Fishes / Q000502:physiology; D011157:Population Dynamics
keywords: balance de valores; collaborative decision making; environmental management; manejo ambiental; opciones de recuperación; partes interesadas; recovery choices; stakeholders; toma de decisiones colaborativas; value trade-offs