Pathways to Success

Nature/Ecology December 2021 Paperback: $29.00 978-1-64283-135-1 Ebook: $28.99 978-1-64283-136-8 304 pages. 7 x 10 | 100 illustrations Island Press Short Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis Pathways to Success

Taking Conservation to Scale in Complex Systems

A highly anticipated follow-up to a classic conservation text, guiding readers to successfully implement large-scale conservation projects.

As environmental problems grow larger and more pressing, conservation work has increasingly emphasized broad approaches to combat global-scale crises of biodiversity loss, invasive species, and climate change. Pathways to Success is a modern guide to building large-scale transformative conservation programs capable of tackling the complex issues we now face.

In this strikingly illustrated volume, coauthors Nick Salafsky and Richard Margoluis walk readers through fundamental concepts of effective program-level design, helping them to think strategically about project coordination, funding, and stakeholder input. Pathways to Success is the definitive guide for conservation program managers and funders who want to increase the effectiveness of their work combating climate change, species extinctions, and the many challenges we face to keep our planet livable.

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Corridor Ecology, Second Edition Jodi A. Hilty, Annika T. H. Keeley, William Z. Lidicker Jr., Adina M. Merenlender Nick Salafsky is Executive Director of Foundations of Success, the Product Manager of Miradi Adaptive Management Software, and one of the initial founders of the Conservation Measures Partnership. Over the past two decades he has worked with hundreds of conservation projects and programs around the world on strategic planning, adaptive management, and cross-program learning.

Richard Margoluis is Chief Adaptive Management and Evaluation Officer at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation where he and his team support grant-making in environmental conservation, basic science, patient care, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining the Moore Foundation, Richard worked with Nick as codirector of Foundations of Success and was also one of the initial founders of the Conservation Measures Partnership

Authors’ residences: Bethesda, Maryland; Aptos, California