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National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

Project Description

Systematic conservation planning is concerned with developing scientifically-guided conservation strategies over large planning areas. It requires formal measures of biodiversity, explicit conservation goals, recognition of trade-offs between biological conservation and other social goals, and explicit and repeatable procedures for producing alternative plans. The goal of this workgroup is to assist the State of California by bringing systematic conservation planning theory and methods to bear on the design and implementation of the California Continuing Resource Investment Strategy Project (CCRISP). CCRISP, an initiative of The Resources Agency of California, is a cooperative, comprehensive planning effort to develop a set of policy and strategy recommendations on protecting California's diverse biological and natural resources (http://ceres.ca.gov/biodiversity/newsletter/v7n1/ccrisp.html).

Principal Investigator(s)

Frank W. Davis, Sandy J. Andelman, Greg Greenwood

Project Dates

Start: December 14, 2000

End: September 13, 2002

completed

Participants

Richard F. Ambrose
University of California, Los Angeles
Sandy J. Andelman
University of California, Santa Barbara
Mary A. Angle
San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy
Heather Barnett
California Resources Agency
Paul Beier
Northern Arizona University
Marc Beyeler
California Coastal Conservancy
Cathy Bleier
Matthew Cahn
University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard L. Church
University of California, Santa Barbara
Christopher Costello
University of California, Santa Barbara
Pete Dangermond
Dangermond and Associates
Frank W. Davis
University of California, Santa Barbara
Sara Denzler
Urban Streams Restoration Program
Rachel Dinno
Robert Doyle
East Bay Regional Park District
Paul Edelman
Unknown
Don C. Erman
University of California, Davis
Christopher B. Field
Carnegie Institution
Bill Fulton
Solimar Research Group
Sarah E. Gergel
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jennifer Giambattista
Madelyn J. Glickfeld
California Resources Agency
Greg Greenwood
California Resources Agency
Dennis H. Grossman
The Nature Conservancy
Andrea Gullo
Puente Hills Landfill Native Habitat Preservation Authority
Diana Hickson
California Resources Agency
Marc Hoshovsky
California Department of Fish and Game
Denise Kamradt
National Park Service
David Kelley
K and AES, Inc.
Roland Knapp
John Landis
University of California, Berkeley
Jeff Loux
University of California, Davis
Claudia Luke
San Diego State University
Dennis Machida
California Tahoe Conservancy
Patricia McCarty
University of California, Davis
Mike McCoy
University of California, Davis
Ray McDowell
Unknown
Crane S. Miller
California State University, Hayward
Mark Nechodom
USDA Forest Service
Ed Pert
Wendy Rash
University of California, Davis
Rick Rayburn
Unknown
Helen M. Regan
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tom Scott
University of California, Riverside
Richard B. Standiford
University of California, Berkeley
Bill Stewart
Peter A. Stine
California State University, Sacramento
David M. Stoms
University of California, Santa Barbara
Erik Vink
California Department of Conservation
John Woodbury

Products

  1. Presentations / 2001

    Systematic conservation planning and CCRISP, 7-9 May 2001, 11-12 June 2001, 17-18 July 2001, 29-31 October 2001, 4-6 December 2001

  2. Presentations / 2002

    A framework for setting conservation regional and statewide conservation priorities

  3. Presentations / 2002

    Overview of recent trends in conservation planning

  4. Report or White Paper / 2003

    A framework for setting land conservation priorities using multi-criteria scoring and an optimal fund allocation strategy

  5. Presentations / 2003

    A new synthetic approach to conservation planning

  6. Presentations / 2003

    An integrated framework for setting conservation priorities and its implementation in California

  7. Presentations / 2003

    A synthetic approach to conservation planning and its implementation in California

  8. Presentations / 2003

    Setting conservation priorities in the Sierra Nevada

  9. Data Set / 2006

    California ecological condition 2000

  10. Data Set / 2006

    California index of ecological condition in the year 2040 based on projected 2040 land use

  11. Journal Article / 2006

    Efficient conservation in a utility-maximization framework

  12. Data Set / 2006

    Intersection of Calwater River Basins and ECOMAP subsections

  13. Report or White Paper / 2003

    A systematic framework for prioritizing farmland preservation

  14. Journal Article / 2006

    Prioritizing farmland preservation cost-effectively for multiple objectives

  15. Report or White Paper / 2001

    Report of NCEAS/California Legacy Project Workshop on Urban Open Space Conservation Criteria

  16. Report or White Paper / 2001

    Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Agricultural Lands Conservation Criteria

  17. Report or White Paper / 2001

    Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation Criteria

  18. Report or White Paper / 2001

    Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Forest Lands Conservation Criteria

  19. Report or White Paper / 2001

    Report of NCEAS/CCRISP Workshop on Terrestrial Biodiversity Conservation Criteria

  20. Presentations / 2002

    The use of decision-making tools in systematic conservation planning

  21. Journal Article / 2007

    Comprehensive criteria for biodiversity evaluation in conservation planning

  22. Presentations / 2002

    A methodological framework for the California Legacy Project

  23. Report or White Paper / 2003

    Linking GIS and reserve selection algorithms: Towards a geospatial data model

  24. Report or White Paper / 2004

    A framework to extend gap analysis to multi-objective conservation planning