"Conservation Planning" is a practical guide to tools and techniques for the twenty-first century, by the Craighead Center for Landscape Conservation & Esri, Lance Craighead & Charles Convis, Editors (2013). This site provides updated materials and additional resources to support the book and its community of users, organized by chapter and topic. The diagram below right presents the overall organization of the book as a sequence of best-practices to create a basic conservation plan, then advanced topics for plan refinement and effectiveness (see links below)

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Study Guide: Studyguide for Conservation Planning

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Chapters:
1-Introduction
2-Socioeconomics
3-Scale & Time
4-Land Cover
5-Land Use
6-Focal Species
7-Habitats: Terrestrial
8-Habitats: Marine/Aq
9-Habitat Cores
10-Connectivity
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11-Viability Analysis
12-Optimization
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13-Climate Change
14-Processes & Tools
15-Summary

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