TY - GEN T1 - Proactive strategies for protecting species : pre-listing conservation and the Endangered Species Act A2 - Donlan, C. Josh, 1972- LA - English PP - Oakland, California PB - University of California Press YR - 2015 ED - FIrst edition. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn900343805 AB - Nearly forty years old, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) remains a landmark act in conservation and one of the world's most comprehensive laws designed to prevent species extinctions and support recovery efforts for imperiled species. A controversial law and often subject to political attack, the ESA is successful overall but not without difficulties. Those who enforce the ESA, for example, struggle to achieve viable recovery goals for many species. At the forefront of challenges is a reactive framework that sometimes leads to perverse incentives and legal battles that strain support and resources. Further, few species have been delisted. Proactive Strategies for Protecting Species explores the perspectives, opportunities, and challenges around designing and implementing pre-listing programs and approaches to species conservation. This volume brings together conservation biologists, economists, private and government stakeholders, and others to create a legal, scientific, sociological, financial, and technological foundation for designing solutions that incentivize conservation action for hundreds of at-risk species--prior to their potential listing under the ESA. This forward-thinking, innovative volume provides a roadmap for designing species conservation programs on the ground so they are effective and take place upstream of regulation, which will contribute to a reduction in lawsuits and other expenses that arise after a species is listed. Proactive Strategies for Species Protection is a guidebook for anyone anywhere interested in designing programs that incentivize environmental stewardship and species conservation. OP - 260 CN - S930 .P76 2015eb SN - 9780520960497 SN - 0520960491 SN - 9780520276888 SN - 0520276884 KW - United States. : Endangered Species Act of 1973. KW - Endangered Species Act of 1973 (United States) KW - Wildlife conservation : United States. KW - Endangered species : United States. KW - Conservation of natural resources : United States. KW - Faune : Protection : EĢtats-Unis. KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING : Agriculture : General. KW - NATURE : Environmental Conservation & Protection. KW - Conservation of natural resources KW - Endangered species KW - Wildlife conservation KW - United States ER -