TY  - JOUR
A1  - Voskamp, Alke
A1  - Fritz, Susanne A.
A1  - Köcke, Anna Valerie
A1  - Biber, Matthias F.
A1  - Nogueira Brockmeyer, Timo
A1  - Bertzky, Bastian
A1  - Forrest, Matthew
A1  - Goldstein, Allie
A1  - Henderson, Scott
A1  - Hickler, Thomas
A1  - Hof, Christian
A1  - Kastner, Thomas
A1  - Lang, Stefanie
A1  - Manning, Peter
A1  - Mascia, Michael B.
A1  - McFadden, Ian R.
A1  - Niamir, Aidin
A1  - Noon, Monica
A1  - O’Donnell, Brian
A1  - Opel, Mark
A1  - Schwede, Georg
A1  - West, Peyton
A1  - Schenck, Christof
A1  - Böhning-Gaese, Katrin
T1  - Utilizing multi-objective decision support tools for protected area selection
T2  - One earth
N2  - Establishing and maintaining protected areas (PAs) is a key action in delivering post-2020 biodiversity targets. PAs often need to meet multiple objectives, ranging from biodiversity protection to ecosystem service provision and climate change mitigation, but available land and conservation funding is limited. Therefore, optimizing resources by selecting the most beneficial PAs is vital. Here, we advocate for a flexible and transparent approach to selecting PAs based on multiple objectives, and illustrate this with a decision support tool on a global scale. The tool allows weighting and prioritization of different conservation objectives according to user-specified preferences as well as real-time comparison of the outcome. Applying the tool across 1,346 terrestrial PAs, we demonstrate that decision makers frequently face trade-offs among conflicting objectives, e.g., between species protection and ecosystem integrity. Nevertheless, we show that transparent decision support tools can reveal synergies and trade-offs associated with PA selection, thereby helping to illuminate and resolve land-use conflicts embedded in divergent societal and political demands and values.
KW  - global change
KW  - biodiversity protection
KW  - conservation funding
KW  - conservation planning
KW  - long-term protection
KW  - decision making
KW  - strategic site selection
KW  - post-2020 biodiversity targets
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/79128
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-791283
SN  - 2590-3322
VL  - 6
IS  - 9
SP  - 1143
EP  - 1156
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -