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Natural Resource Decisions: Discount Rates, Time Horizons, And Evaluations, Amanda Hyman
Natural Resource Decisions: Discount Rates, Time Horizons, And Evaluations, Amanda Hyman
Doctoral Dissertations
As effects from climate change accelerate, there is a pressing need for research that can improve people’s lives and safeguard the environment. Billions of dollars are invested annually in such projects. To invest that money wisely, we need to understand the effects of assumptions that underpin decisions but often go unstated, such as assumptions about discount rates and time horizons. We also need to understand how project design choices affect the management of natural resources, prioritization of conservation actions, and success of climate adaptation projects. My dissertation explores these topics. I ask if and how local natural resource users and …
Patterns Of Ecological Performance And Aquatic Insect Diversity In High Quality Protected Area Networks, Jason Lesley Robinson
Patterns Of Ecological Performance And Aquatic Insect Diversity In High Quality Protected Area Networks, Jason Lesley Robinson
Doctoral Dissertations
Protected areas are at the heart of plans for biodiversity conservation. Networks of protected areas may provide opportunities to protect conservation targets or objectives not attainable for single parcels of land. The landscape of potential decisions available to conservation planners is constrained by uncertainty about the form of future climate states. New methods are available that can provide objective assessments of the direction and magnitude of shifts in climate regimes that are not first filtered through theoretical responses of biodiversity. Successful predictions of where, in protected area networks, climates are most likely to change, or most likely to remain in …