Bottrill Madeleine C, Joseph Liana N, Carwardine Josie, Bode Michael, Cook Carly, Game Edward T, Grantham Hedley, Kark Salit, Linke Simon, McDonald-Madden Eve, Pressey Robert L, Walker Susan, Wilson Kerrie A, Possingham Hugh P
The University of Queensland, The Applied Environmental Decision Analysis Centre, The Ecology Centre, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia.
Trends Ecol Evol. 2008 Dec;23(12):649-54. doi: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.007. Epub 2008 Oct 9.
Conservation efforts and emergency medicine face comparable problems: how to use scarce resources wisely to conserve valuable assets. In both fields, the process of prioritising actions is known as triage. Although often used implicitly by conservation managers, scientists and policymakers, triage has been misinterpreted as the process of simply deciding which assets (e.g. species, habitats) will not receive investment. As a consequence, triage is sometimes associated with a defeatist conservation ethic. However, triage is no more than the efficient allocation of conservation resources and we risk wasting scarce resources if we do not follow its basic principles.
如何明智地利用稀缺资源来保护宝贵资产。在这两个领域，确定行动优先级的过程被称为分类。尽管保护管理人员、科学家和政策制定者常常在无形中使用分类，但它被误解为只是决定哪些资产（如物种、栖息地）将不会获得投资的过程。因此，分类有时与一种失败主义的保护伦理相关联。然而，分类不过是对保护资源的有效分配，如果我们不遵循其基本原则，就有浪费稀缺资源的风险。
