Using strategic foresight to assess conservation opportunity.

@article{Cook2014UsingSF,
  title={Using strategic foresight to assess conservation opportunity.},
  author={Carly N. Cook and Bonnie C. Wintle and Stephen C. Aldrich and Brendan A. Wintle},
  journal={Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology},
  year={2014},
  volume={28 6},
  pages={
          1474-83
        }
}
  • C. Cook, B. Wintle, +1 author B. Wintle
  • Published 1 December 2014
  • Business
  • Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
The nature of conservation challenges can foster a reactive, rather than proactive approach to decision making. Failure to anticipate problems before they escalate results in the need for more costly and time-consuming solutions. Proactive conservation requires forward-looking approaches to decision making that consider possible futures without being overly constrained by the past. Strategic foresight provides a structured process for considering the most desirable future and for mapping the… 
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