Many conservation plans remain unimplemented, in part because of insufficient
consideration of the social processes that influence conservation decisions. Complementing …

A central challenge for natural resource management is develo** rigorous yet practical
approaches for balancing the costs and benefits of diverse human uses of ecosystems …

Recent calls for ocean planning envision informed management of social and ecological
systems to sustain delivery of ecosystem services to people. However, until now, no coastal …

Triple–bottom-line outcomes from resource management and conservation, where
conservation goals and equity in social outcomes are maximized while overall costs are …

Overfishing and habitat destruction due to local and global threats are undermining
fisheries, biodiversity, and the long-term sustainability of tropical marine ecosystems …

A common objective in identifying conservation areas is to minimize conservation costs
while achieving a set of conservation targets. Recent literature highlights the importance of …

Oceans, particularly coastal areas, are getting busier and within this increasingly human-
dominated seascape, marine biodiversity continues to decline. Attempts to maintain and …

Conservation decisions increasingly involve multiple environmental and social objectives,
which result in complex decision contexts with high potential for trade‐offs. Improving social …

Conservation actions generally benefit some groups more than others, and this inequity is
thought to affect the probability of achieving conservation objectives. This has led to the …

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has increasingly been used to prioritize
conservation actions, including the design of new protected areas to achieve conservation …