Maximizing return on investment in conservation

By W. Murdoch, Stephen Polasky, K. Wilson, Hugh P. Possingham, P. Kareiva, R. Shaw. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Unexpected outcomes of invasive predator control: the importance of evaluating conservation management actions (2012, background): “A key part of prioritizing investments is an understanding of how the target species or the environment will respond to a management action (Murdoch et al., 2007).”
Economics of invasive species policy and management (2017, background): “However, return on investment analysis has not often been widely applied to invasive species management (Boyd et al. 2015, but see, e.g., Murdoch et al. 2007; Donlan et al. 2015).”
Conservation‐reliant species and the future of conservation (2010, background): “Prioritization approaches based on cost-effectiveness or return-on-investment (e.g., Murdoch et al. 2007; Briggs 2009) offer some possibilities, but other approaches should also be explored.”
Management costs for small protected areas and economies of scale in habitat conservation (2011, background): “Academic writings on conservation planning also increasingly emphasise the importance of considering the costs associated with different conservation activities (Ando et al., 1998; Polasky et al., 2001; Armsworth et al., 2006; Strange et al., 2006; Murdoch et al., 2007; Naidoo and Iwamura, 2007; Bod”
Transcendental values and the valuation and management of ecosystem services (2016, background): “For example, ecosystem management is informed by conservation prioritization tools (Murdoch et al., 2007), which assist conservation organisations allocate resources to areas of high ecological value, including species abundance, diversity, rarity, and risk (Magurran, 2004; Mooilanen et al.”
Pragmatic population viability targets in a rapidly changing world (2010, neutral): “…parrot (http://kevinschafer.com), black rhino (http://wildcast.net) Recent advances in the science include ‘prioritisation protocols’ that optimise (conservation) resource allocation through cost-benefit analyses (Murdoch et al., 2007) and the likelihood of management success (Joseph et al., 2009).”
Is conservation triage just smart decision making? (2008, critical): “biodiversity in each region, however, this process misses a key component for supporting efficient investments [ 42 ].”
Is research effort allocated efficiently for conservation? Felidae as a global case study (2009, background): “Hockley et al. 2007; McBride et al. 2007; Murdoch et al. 2007; Wilson et al. 2007; Regan et al. 2008), it may be intractable for large-scale issues (Wilson et al. 2006) and mathematically-optimal allocation strategies may be unattainable in many real-world situations (Meir et al. 2004; Ceballos an”
Bird demographic responses to predator removal programs (2010, neutral): “More recently, the return on investment approach has been advocated as a tool to maximize conservation benefits, such as habitat protection or increases in the number of breeding seabirds (Donlan and Heneman 2007; Murdoch et al. 2007; Naidoo et al. 2006).”
Using return‐on‐investment to guide restoration: a case study from Hawaii (2008, background): “Although practitioners draw heavily upon ecological information to set priorities or are instead primarily focused on project costs, few actively integrate both in decision-making (Brooks et al. 2006; Murdoch et al. 2007).”