Proactive strategies for protecting species : pre-listing conservation and the Endangered Species Act / edited by C. Josh Donlan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Donlan, Josh C., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Endangered Species Act of 1973.

United States.

Conservation of natural resources--United States.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (635 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now forty years old, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) remains a landmark act in conservation and one of the world's most comprehensive laws designed to prevent species extinctions and support recovery efforts for imperiled species. A controversial law and often subject to political attack, the ESA is successful overall but not without difficulties. Those who enforce the ESA, for example, struggle to achieve viable recovery goals for many species. At the forefront of challenges is a reactive framework that sometimes leads to perverse incentives and legal battles that strain support and resources. Further, few species have been delisted. Proactive Strategies for Protecting Species explores the perspectives, opportunities, and challenges around designing and implementing pre-listing programs and approaches to species conservation. This volume brings together conservation biologists, economists, private and government stakeholders, and others to create a legal, scientific, sociological, financial, and technological foundation for designing solutions that incentivize conservation action for hundreds of at-risk species-prior to their potential listing under the ESA. This forward-thinking, innovative volume provides a roadmap for designing species conservation programs on the ground so they are effective and take place upstream of regulation, which will contribute to a reduction in lawsuits and other expenses that arise after a species is listed. Proactive Strategies for Species Protection is a guidebook for anyone anywhere interested in designing programs that incentivize environmental stewardship and species conservation.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Preface

1. An Introduction to Pre-Listing Conservation

2. A Primer on Species Avoidance, Minimization, and Compensatory Mitigation under the US Endangered Species Act

3. Perspective: Endangered Species, the Desert Tortoise, and Job Creation

4. Perspective: Renewable Energy and Endangered Species

5. Perspective: The Challenges and Benefits of Pre-Listing Conservation Approaches to Military Readiness

6. Perspective: Stewardship over Regulation and Harnessing the Agricultural Sector for Species Conservation

7. Perspective: Forest Conservation and Private Landowners

8 Pre-Listing Conservation

9. A Primer on Biodiversity Measurement Systems

10. A Landowner-Centered Approach to Incentivizing Participation in Pre-Listing Conservation Programs

11. Market Models and Finance for Upstream Species Conservation

12. Tools to Promote Transparent and Efficient Markets for Species Conservation

13. The Role of Electronic Marketplaces in Scaling Environmental Markets

14. Prospects for Pre-Listing Conservation Approaches in Freshwater Ecosystems

15. The Greater Sage-Grouse, Energy Development, and Pre-Listing Conservation

16. The Gopher Tortoise, Military Readiness, and Pre-Listing Conservation

17. The Future of Pre-Listing Conservation Programs for Wildlife Conservation

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520960497

0520960491

OCLC:

900343805