Dear Ecolog: Our team is currently looking into conservation offset approaches that can be used by decision makers as part of an urban planning process.
There is a lot of science literature available, especially for spatial tools that can help with screening priority areas for compensation, spatial optimization, etc. This is great and we would like to balance such technical information with examples of where compensation strategies have been used. What I am keen to find are specific examples of where compensation offset strategies have been implemented by regional or local municipalities as part of an urban planning or conservation planning process. Documenting where such strategies have been successful would be great, but equally important will be understanding where some of the bottlenecks may lie. If you have any examples of where such strategies have and/or are currently being used within an urban or conservation planning context it would be great to hear from you. It would also be great to know if you have one or two papers that you think accurately capture the state of the art and science. Please feel free to email me personally if you wish. Best regards, Steve Hill Ecologist Dougan & Associates [email protected] [email protected]
