Decision-Making in Conservation and Natural Resource Management

Nils Bunnefeld is an Associate Professor at the University of Stirling. His research focuses on the interaction between people and nature with an emphasis on mathematical and statistical modelling. In 2016, he was awarded a 5-year European Research Council Starting Grant (ConFooBio) on resolving conflicts between food security and biodiversity conservation. Emily Nicholson is a Senior Lecturer based at Deakin University, Australia. Her research focuses on solving critical conservation problems and measuring change in biodiversity. Her work has helped to develop a new framework for assessing risks to ecosystems, the Red List of Ecosystems, adopted as the global standard by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). E. J. Milner-Gulland is Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity at the University of Oxford. In 2014 she was awarded a Pew Marine Fellowship on the use of novel approaches to addressing marine bycatch. Her ethos is to ensure that all the research she does is addressing issues identified by practitioners, and is carried out collaboratively with end-users.

1. Introduction Nils Bunnefeld, Emily Nicholson, E. J. Milner-Gulland; Part I. Approaches to Decision-Making: 2. Fisheries science and participatory management strategy evaluation: eliciting objectives, visions and system models Cathy Dichmont and Beth Fulton; 3. Rapid prototyping for decision structuring: an efficient approach to conservation decision analysis Georgia E. Garrard, Libby Rumpff, Michael C. Runge and Sarah J. Converse; 4. Understanding uptake of decision-support models in conservation and natural resource management Yung En Chee, Fiona Fidler and Bonnie Wintle; 5. Understanding human wellbeing for conservation: a locally driven, mixed methods approach Emily Woodhouse, Katherine M. Homewood, Emilie Beauchamp, Tom Clements, J. Terrence McCabe, David Wilkie and E. J. Milner-Gulland; Part II. Challenges in Implementation: 6. Implementing decision analysis tools for invasive species management Joslin L. Moore, Charlie Pascoe, Elaine Thomas and Marie Keatley; 7. Using management strategy evaluation as a framework for improving conservation under uncertainty: the case of the Serengeti ecosystem Ana Nuno, Nils Bunnefeld and E. J. Milner-Gulland; 8. The use of quantitative models in the harvest management of wild ungulates, carnivores and small game – using Norway as a case study Erlend B. Nilsen; 9. Linking global biodiversity indicators with global conservation policy Emily Nicholson, Beth Fulton and Ben Collen; 10. Synthesis: moving forward together E. J. Milner-Gulland, Emily Nicholson and Nils Bunnefeld.