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J Earth Sci Clim Change, an open access
ISSN: 2157-7617
Climate Change 2017
October 19-21, 2017
CLIMATE CHANGE
October 19-21, 2017 | Rome, Italy
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J Earth Sci Clim Change 2017, 8:10(Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-037
Cost-effective prioritization of conservation efforts in agricultural landscape under a changing
climate
Isabel Guerrero
Oregon State University, USA
H
abitat fragmentation from human-based activities is the major source of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation that
compromises an ecosystem's ability to provide the services needed by society to sustain itself and prosper. Climate change
may exacerbate biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation by directly altering natural habitats' ability to host biodiversity and
provide ecosystem services and by indirectly changing the frequency and intensity of hazards across landscapes. To prevent
biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation from habitat fragmentation, landscape managers and environmental agencies set
conservation goals within a conservation planning approach. My dissertation project aims to improve society's understanding
of climate change´s impacts on conservation planning. Specifically, using a cost-effectiveness approach to find the optimal
sequential selection of alternative conservation mechanisms with different temporal horizons across a landscape with both
natural and working lands. I am currently parameterizing the model in an ecoregion of the Pacific Northwest of the United
States.Mycurrent research contributes to the conservation planning literature by proposing a framework that incorporates
economic optimization methods to examine how alternative mechanisms interact when aiming for cost-effective conservation
strategies for identified goals. My research also contributes to the dynamic resource economic literature by incorporating the
potential impacts of climate change into a dynamic optimization framework when planning conservation efforts. Lastly, it
will contribute to conservation planning through its emphasis on integrating biological, biophysical, economics and planning
into one framework that provides information on the tradeoffs among conservation efforts in a cost-effective approach. This
research may be useful for landscape managers to attain conservation goals on landscapes or in ecoregions by providing
information on tradeoffs among conservation mechanisms in static and dynamic settings.