| Autor: |
Arlidge WNS; PhD student.; Professor at the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology, in Oxford, United Kingdom., Bull JW; A Lecturer at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, in the United Kingdom, and is with the Department of Food and Resource Economics and the Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate at the University of Copenhagen, in Denmark., Addison PFE; Knowledge exchange and research Fellow.; Professor at the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology, in Oxford, United Kingdom., Burgass MJ; PhD students at the Imperial College London Department of Life Sciences., Gianuca D; PhD student with the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter, in Penryn, United Kingdom., Gorham TM; A senior research analyst with the Marine Stewardship Council, in London, United Kingdom., Jacob C; Postdoctoral researcher with IFREMER, UMR AMURE, in Brest, France., Shumway N; Nicole Shumway is a PhD candidate and James E. M. Watson is a professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, in Brisbane, Australia., Sinclair SP; PhD students at the Imperial College London Department of Life Sciences., Watson JEM; Nicole Shumway is a PhD candidate and James E. M. Watson is a professor at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science, in Brisbane, Australia.; JEMW is also director of the Science and Research Initiative at the Wildlife Conservation Society, in the Bronx, New York., Wilcox C; Chris Wilcox is a senior research scientist with the Oceans and Atmosphere Business Unit, CSIRO, in Hobart, Australia., Milner-Gulland EJ; Professor at the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology, in Oxford, United Kingdom. |
| Abstrakt: |
Efforts to conserve biodiversity comprise a patchwork of international goals, national-level plans, and local interventions that, overall, are failing. We discuss the potential utility of applying the mitigation hierarchy, widely used during economic development activities, to all negative human impacts on biodiversity. Evaluating all biodiversity losses and gains through the mitigation hierarchy could help prioritize consideration of conservation goals and drive the empirical evaluation of conservation investments through the explicit consideration of counterfactual trends and ecosystem dynamics across scales. We explore the challenges in using this framework to achieve global conservation goals, including operationalization and monitoring and compliance, and we discuss solutions and research priorities. The mitigation hierarchy's conceptual power and ability to clarify thinking could provide the step change needed to integrate the multiple elements of conservation goals and interventions in order to achieve successful biodiversity outcomes. |
