Biodiversity conservation needs to be informed by science. On this regard, scientific efforts ought to be allocated to tackle research priorities; offer sound and explicit advice, and results ought to be translated into ...

Planning for management actions that address threats to biodiversity is important for securing its long term persistence. However, systematic conservation planning (SCP) has traditionally overlooked this aspect and just ...

Presents an overview of the East Port of Spain redevelopment plan, the development approach, trends in population, housing, social and community facilities, infrastructure and environmental conservation for the period ...

Biodiversity conservation has been since long an academic community concern, leading scientists to propose strategies to effectively meet conservation goals. In particular, Systematic Conservation Planning (SCP) aims to ...

The design of conservation management plans is a crucial task for ensuring the preservation of ecosys- tems. A conservation plan is typically embodied by two types of decisions: in which areas of a given territory it will ...

Large landscapes encompassing reserves and areas with other human uses are necessary for conservation of many species. Generating information for conservation planning over such landscapes may be expensive and time-consuming, ...

Identifies the potential, by sub-region, for urban and industrial development, agricultural and forestry development, recreation facilities and development of conservation areas.