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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 24, Pages 9721-9724Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902327106
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assisted migration; climate change; conservation biology; conservation strategy; sustainability science
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- National Science Foundation [0741792, 0741921]
- DST-NRF Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology
- Cedar Tree Foundation
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [0741792] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [0741921] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Managed relocation (MR) has rapidly emerged as a potential intervention strategy in the toolbox of biodiversity management under climate change. Previous authors have suggested that MR (also referred to as assisted colonization, assisted migration, or assisted translocation) could be a last-alternative option after interrogating a linear decision tree. We argue that numerous interacting and value-laden considerations demand a more inclusive strategy for evaluating MR. The pace of modern climate change demands decision making with imperfect information, and tools that elucidate this uncertainty and integrate scientific information and social values are urgently needed. We present a heuristic tool that incorporates both ecological and social criteria in a multidimensional decision-making framework. For visualization purposes, we collapse these criteria into 4 classes that can be depicted in graphical 2-D space. This framework offers a pragmatic approach for summarizing key dimensions of MR: capturing uncertainty in the evaluation criteria, creating transparency in the evaluation process, and recognizing the inherent tradeoffs that different stakeholders bring to evaluation of MR and its alternatives.
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