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by Ph.D. Lara J. Hansen,Jennifer Ruth Hoffman Ph.D.

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Ph.D. Lara J. Hansen,Jennifer Ruth Hoffman Ph.D.

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978-1597266864

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1597266868

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English

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Island Press; None edition (October 13, 2010)

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Earth Sciences

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FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources

FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources. Addressing threats posed by climate change cannot be simply an afterthought or an addendum.

In Climate Savvy, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman offer 18 chapters that consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time-invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many others. How will strategies need to change to facilitate adaptation to a new climate regime? What steps can we take to promote resilience?

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Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources. Addressing threats posed by climate change cannot be simply an afterthought or an addendum, but must be integrated into the very framework of how we conceive of and conduct conservation and management. In Climate Savvy, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman offer 18 chapters that consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time—invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many others. How will strategies need to change to facilitate adaptation to a new climate regime? What steps can we take to promote resilience? Based on collaboration with a wide range of scientists, conservation leaders, and practitioners, the authors present general ideas as well as practical steps and strategies that can help cope with this new reality. While climate change poses real threats, it also provides a chance for creative new thinking. Climate Savvy offers a wide-ranging exploration of how scientists, managers, and policymakers can use the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to build a more holistic and effective philosophy that embraces the inherent uncertainty and variability of the natural world to work toward a more robust future.

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The book is presented clearly, but it is very dry. I was assigned readings for class, and could not do more than five pages at a time. In one chapter, the book opens up with a quote from Dr. Seuss, and suffice it to say that quote was the most interesting thing about the chapter.

MarF

Too many books today are focusing on the doom and gloom of climate change, and not informing you of practical approaches to prepare for climate change. The audience for this book is resource managers and conservation practitioners, so it is not for a general reader. It serves as a manual which people working in this field can use to make plans for how to better adapt their processes for the impact of climate change, even with a degree of uncertainty. The first section focuses on building adaptation plans, and the second focuses on then implementing those plans and considers species, protected areas, connectivity, invasives, and other issues or concepts that should be considered. The third section focuses on policy, regulation, and governance. In particular, chapter 15 focuses on how to plan for human responses in your adaptation plans, a much needed chapter since no landscape or resources exists in a vacuum.

Overall the tone of this book is very proactive and upbeat- the author's are trying to inform you how to be 'climate savvy' in your work. The book helps inform how to make "climate savvy" decisions. CLIMATE SAVVY is a much needed manual for anyone planning for the future.

Trash

Several books (Hannah 2010; Lovejoy & Hannah 2005) superbly describe how climate change has affected and will affect biodiversity, and also reveal the fascinating details of how humans have reconstructed past climates and project into the future. This book moves beyond these grim facts (summarized in the first 25 pages of the book) to focus on the specific steps that ecologists and planners can take to conserve biodiversity in the coming decades of rapid climate change. No other book focusses on this important topic. Hansen and Hoffman take a calm and common-sense approach. Rather than arguing "everything we've been doing is wrong," they point out that the main strategies of conservation (establishing protected areas, conserving corridors, battling invasive species) are also key elements of climate-savvy conservation planning. Managers do need to re-think these strategies, and the book offers guidance on how to do so. Although written primarily for ecologists and conservation planners, the book is completely accessible to any well-educated person interested in these issues. The book is slim, and several examples reappear in multiple chapters, but this reflects the fact that we have only begun to practice climate-savvy conservation. This book accurately reflects the state of science and practice, and will stimulate new efforts that will advance the field.

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