Authors
Ilse R Geijzendorffer, Astrid JA Van Teeffelen, Hilary Allison, Daniela Braun, Katherine Horgan, Maitane Iturrate-Garcia, Maria João Santos, Loïc Pellissier, Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard, Simone Quatrini, Shoko Sakai, Debra Zuppinger-Dingley
Publication date
2017/12/1
Source
Current opinion in environmental sustainability
Volume
29
Pages
145-150
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Current international biodiversity conservation targets are not achieved.
- A diversification of biodiversity conservation strategies is required.
- A wide range of actors actively contribute locally to biodiversity conservation.
- Global recommendations need to be scaled down to local levels and actors.
- Information to estimate biodiversity impacts of actions in the future is missing.
With global science-policy conventions for biodiversity and ecosystem services in place, much effort goes into monitoring and reporting on the progress toward policy targets. As conservation actions happen locally, can such global monitoring and reporting efforts effectively guide conservation actions at subnational level? In this paper we explore three different perspectives: policy reporting for policy implementation; scientific knowledge for empowerment and actions; and from past trends to influencing the future. Using these three …
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