Multiple?Benefit Conservation defined

A new term, Multiple-Benefit Conservation, has emerged in the conservation community, but not been defined. We define Conservation as efforts designed to simultaneously benefit local communities of people, enhance ecological function, and improve habitat quality for fish wildlife. Its key features are setting societal goals at outset defining success achieving these simultaneously. This is contrast aimed one goal that may also produce co-benefits; it inclusive ecosystem services limited by a focus solely on human benefit. Strengths this approach include constructive, multiple worldviews, easily communicated, solutions-oriented, compelling. we describe here appears provide pathway useful designing more likely be inclusive, will quantify trade-offs among goals, can embrace pluralistic leadership.