Protecting the Places We Love: Conservation Strategies for Entrusted Lands and Parks

Bold conservation strategies are needed to protect special places from being changed forever. Protecting the Places We Love: Conservation Strategies for Entrusted Lands and Parks provides a vision for success and clear guidance for conservation groups to achieve their goals. The book offers tools and resources that are free, accessible, effective, and adaptable to integrate existing practices with geospatial data and modern applications. It helps readers identify places needing protection, maximize partnerships, inspire, educate, and engage communities, and produce better results.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 280 pages
Publication date: 06 July 2021
Publisher: ESRI Press

Bold conservation strategies are urgently needed to safeguard special places at risk of irreversible transformation. It is time to implement innovative land protection measures worldwide. In her book, "Protecting the Places We Love: Conservation Strategies for Entrusted Lands and Parks," conservationist and geospatial designer Breece Robertson offers a comprehensive vision for success and practical guidance for conservation groups of all sizes. The primary objectives of these strategies are to support species, habitats, and natural resources while fostering healthy, resilient, and socially cohesive communities that are climate-adapted. Robertson's tools, many of which are freely available, are designed to be accessible, effective, and adaptable to existing or new conservation approaches. Readers will gain confidence in integrating geospatial data and modern applications into their conservation efforts through the smart analysis and targeted actions explained in this book. By utilizing maps that convey compelling stories to stakeholders and the public, analyzing park system equity and access, mapping, modeling, and analyzing land characteristics to enhance biodiversity, connectivity, and climate resilience, and using maps and data to inform fundraising, program initiatives, policy, advocacy, finance, and marketing, readers will be better equipped to identify places in need of protection and maximize partnerships, inspire, educate, and engage communities and donors. "Protecting the Places We Love" is a valuable resource for citizens, conservation advocates, and professionals alike, as it provides a roadmap for preserving the places we cherish for generations to come.

Weight: 874g
Dimension: 191 x 234 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781589486164