Book Review - Drafting a conservation blueprint. A Practitioner's Guide to Planning for Biodiversity Craig R. Groves. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003, cloth $70, ISBN 1-55963-938-5; paper $35, ISBN 1-55963-939-3

Providing a step-by-step planning process for conserving the biological diversity of entire regions, this title explains how to develop a regional conservation plan. It offers guidance that brings together relevant information from the fields of ecology, conservation biology, planning and policy.