Our review of current approaches to identifying spatial priorities for managing ES found that the important components of prioritization (benefits, costs, threats, availability of alternative, and capacity to meet demand) were treated in substantially different ways or sometimes omitted completely (although not all components are applicable in every context).
As many teachers know to their cost, the threat of "I'll say you touched me" can have a chilling effect.
"Today's Sochi opening is marked by the cost, the threat of terrorism and the gay controversy," Spain's El Mundo editorialised.
Similar confusion can arise if we prioritize only on cost or threat.
More important, they found that funding allocations were less sensitive to choice of taxon assessed, than to variation in cost and threat.
Our goal is not to produce a reserve plan, which would require the inclusion of socio-economic, cost, and threat criteria, as well as the input of stakeholders.
Studies used by the supporters of the defeated piracy legislation have tended to exaggerate piracy's economic costs and threat to jobs.
"Because of energy costs, the threat of war has already affected our business dramatically," said Robert S. Miller Jr., chief executive of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
He uniquely bore the weight of an overly-aggressive government pursuit, financial costs and threat of jail time.
Even when firms didn't simply move domestic factories into Mexico to exploit cheaper labor costs, the threat of relocation undercut workers' bargaining power with their managers.
