Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change
Effective private land conservation strategies that consider both landholder preferences and future climatic conditions are critical for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, the interaction and relative importance of these factors for conservation planning performance is unknown. Her...
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| author | Brooke A Williams Carla L Archibald James Brazill-Boast Michael J Drielsma Rajesh Thapa Jamie Love Frankie H T Cho Daniel Lunney James A Fitzsimons Md Sayed Iftekhar Jaramar Villarreal-Rosas Sarah Bekessy Scott Benitez Hetherington Clive A McAlpine Linda J Beaumont Jillian Thonell Jonathan R Rhodes |
| author_facet | Brooke A Williams Carla L Archibald James Brazill-Boast Michael J Drielsma Rajesh Thapa Jamie Love Frankie H T Cho Daniel Lunney James A Fitzsimons Md Sayed Iftekhar Jaramar Villarreal-Rosas Sarah Bekessy Scott Benitez Hetherington Clive A McAlpine Linda J Beaumont Jillian Thonell Jonathan R Rhodes |
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| description | Effective private land conservation strategies that consider both landholder preferences and future climatic conditions are critical for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, the interaction and relative importance of these factors for conservation planning performance is unknown. Here, we assess the importance of considering landholder preferences and climate change for prioritising locations for conservation tenders to recruit landholders for conservation covenants. To achieve this we develop a planning framework that accounts for the tender process to optimise investment across regions and apply it to koala-focused tenders in New South Wales, Australia, exploring four planning approaches that consider or are ignorant to landholder preferences or climate change. We find that optimal investments depend more on landholder preferences than climate change, and when landholder preferences are ignored, there is little benefit in accounting for climate change. Our analysis reveals new insights into this important interaction. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f84f9cf5f2b44880ac058c3d373a841c2024-11-19T16:49:22ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262024-01-01191212404710.1088/1748-9326/ad8d6bOptimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate changeBrooke A Williams0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0692-7507Carla L Archibald1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1640-8396James Brazill-Boast2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3816-9755Michael J Drielsma3https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1346-5208Rajesh Thapa4Jamie Love5Frankie H T Cho6https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1369-4980Daniel Lunney7https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5771-0746James A Fitzsimons8https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4277-8040Md Sayed Iftekhar9https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2827-2943Jaramar Villarreal-Rosas10https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6056-3268Sarah Bekessy11https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0503-1979Scott Benitez Hetherington12https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3500-6314Clive A McAlpine13https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0457-8144Linda J Beaumont14https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6307-1680Jillian Thonell15Jonathan R Rhodes16https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6746-7412School of Biology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia; School of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, AustraliaSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University , 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, AustraliaNSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust, Locked Bag 5022, Parramatta , NSW 2124, AustraliaSchool of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England , Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia; NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Locked Bag 5022, Parramatta , NSW 2124, AustraliaSchool of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England , Armidale, NSW 2351, AustraliaNSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Locked Bag 5022, Parramatta , NSW 2124, AustraliaSchool of Biology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia; School of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute , Department of Economics, University of Exeter, Exeter EX44PU, United KingdomFaculty of Science, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney , Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; Australian Museum , 1 William Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, AustraliaSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University , 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia; The Nature Conservancy , Suite 2-01, 60 Leicester Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia; School of Law, University of Tasmania , Private Bag 89, Hobart TAS 7001, AustraliaDepartment of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith University , Brisbane, QLD, AustraliaAustralian Rivers Institute, Griffith University , 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, AustraliaSchool of Global, Urban, and Social Studies, RMIT University , Melbourne, VIC 3000, AustraliaTweed Shire Council , 10-14 Tumbulgum Road, Murwillumbah, NSW 2484, AustraliaSchool of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, AustraliaSchool of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University , Sydney, NSW 2109, AustraliaNSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Locked Bag 5022, Parramatta , NSW 2124, AustraliaSchool of Biology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia; School of the Environment, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, The University of Queensland , Brisbane, QLD 4072, AustraliaEffective private land conservation strategies that consider both landholder preferences and future climatic conditions are critical for preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services. Yet, the interaction and relative importance of these factors for conservation planning performance is unknown. Here, we assess the importance of considering landholder preferences and climate change for prioritising locations for conservation tenders to recruit landholders for conservation covenants. To achieve this we develop a planning framework that accounts for the tender process to optimise investment across regions and apply it to koala-focused tenders in New South Wales, Australia, exploring four planning approaches that consider or are ignorant to landholder preferences or climate change. We find that optimal investments depend more on landholder preferences than climate change, and when landholder preferences are ignored, there is little benefit in accounting for climate change. Our analysis reveals new insights into this important interaction.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad8d6bconservation tenderlandholder behaviourwillingness to acceptkoalaAustraliaprivate protected areas |
| spellingShingle | Brooke A Williams Carla L Archibald James Brazill-Boast Michael J Drielsma Rajesh Thapa Jamie Love Frankie H T Cho Daniel Lunney James A Fitzsimons Md Sayed Iftekhar Jaramar Villarreal-Rosas Sarah Bekessy Scott Benitez Hetherington Clive A McAlpine Linda J Beaumont Jillian Thonell Jonathan R Rhodes Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change Environmental Research Letters conservation tender landholder behaviour willingness to accept koala Australia private protected areas |
| title | Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change |
| title_full | Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change |
| title_fullStr | Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change |
| title_short | Optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change |
| title_sort | optimal investments in private land conservation depend more on landholder preferences than climate change |
| topic | conservation tender landholder behaviour willingness to accept koala Australia private protected areas |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad8d6b |
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