Short Communication: Systems-based conservation and conflicts between species protection programs

摘要

Although the conflict between conservation efforts and economic growth is amajor topic of conservation science, the conflicts between differentconservation projects are much less documented and represented in theliterature. We provide an overview of some case studies where these conflictsarise and discuss how to manage and solve them. We argue that conflicts areunavoidable, and that we can find optimal and efficient solutions only bystudying the holistic, macroscopic properties of whole socio-ecologicalsystems. Novel computational solutions offer simple and efficient simulationtoolkits providing indicators that can support strategic and integrativedecisions from a systems perspective.