Dear Colleagues We would like to invite you to contribute to an upcoming special issue of Environmental Research Letters entitled: Delivering on conservation promises: risks and impacts of investments, edited by Dr Vanessa Adams (Charles Darwin University), Dr Edward Game (The Nature Conservancy) and Dr Michael Bode (University of Melbourne).
Policy makers and conservation funders have heightened the discourse on the accountability of conservation decisions and investments. Understanding the financial realities of conservation has resulted in two prominent issues in the conservation literature: understanding how to manage the risks associated with our conservation investments and demonstrating that our investments are making a difference through evidence based conservation (reporting on social, economic and ecological impacts). This special journal issue will collate research and perspectives on these two topics, to provide a single resource for conservation academics and managers. The papers in this issue seek to draw on current thinking and case studies to examine lessons for future conservation investments, including: approaches to evidence-based assessment of conservation impact, methods linking the expected outcome of conservation investments to available financial resources, and methods for understanding and coherently managing risks in conservation. Submission will be accepted until 30 September 2012, please visit the website below for full details on the scope, key questions to be addressed by the issue and submission process. http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-9326/focus/Conservation%20Promises Authors should also be aware of the publication costs ($1600, £1000 or Euro 1100) per article. Discounts are available, 25% off of the charge if you sign up to environmentalresearchweb.org, and 10% for each article you have refereed for the journal in the last year. If you believe you have may have a suitable article to contribute to the issue, please contact the ERL Publisher, Guillaume Wright (guillaume.wri...@iop.org) or the one of the Guest Editors above. Best wishes, Guillaume Wright Publisher Environmental Research Letters guillaume.wri...@iop.org
