Reconciling diverse viewpoints within systematic conservation planning

Conservation encompasses numerous alternative viewpoints on what to value (features such as biodiversity, ecosystem services or socio-economic benefits) and how convert these values into conservation policies that deliver for nature people. Reconciling differing in policy development implementation is a perennial challenge. Balancing stakeholder within single plan risks some overshadowing others. This can occur dominant may lead more marginal views being suppressed, also through social biases during the planning process. Here we develop four separate ‘caricature’ viewpoints, spatially quantify each of them order test different approaches equitable reconciliation. Each viewpoint prioritises locations, dependent extent which they variety well-being economic goals. We then show be reconciled using numeric methods. find pluralist approach, accounts spatial similarities differences between able equitably multiple features. approach provides coherent strategy with capacity satisfy advocates quite divergent conservation. Read free Plain Language Summary this article Journal blog.