Publication Date:
2010-09-11
Description:
The continued growth of human populations and of per capita consumption have resulted in unsustainable exploitation of Earth's biological diversity, exacerbated by climate change, ocean acidification, and other anthropogenic environmental impacts. We argue that effective conservation of biodiversity is essential for human survival and the maintenance of ecosystem processes. Despite some conservation successes (especially at local scales) and increasing public and government interest in living sustainably, biodiversity continues to decline. Moving beyond 2010, successful conservation approaches need to be reinforced and adequately financed. In addition, however, more radical changes are required that recognize biodiversity as a global public good, that integrate biodiversity conservation into policies and decision frameworks for resource production and consumption, and that focus on wider institutional and societal changes to enable more effective implementation of policy.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Rands, Michael R W -- Adams, William M -- Bennun, Leon -- Butchart, Stuart H M -- Clements, Andrew -- Coomes, David -- Entwistle, Abigail -- Hodge, Ian -- Kapos, Valerie -- Scharlemann, Jorn P W -- Sutherland, William J -- Vira, Bhaskar -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2010 Sep 10;329(5997):1298-303. doi: 10.1126/science.1189138.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK. mr494@cam.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20829476" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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*Biodiversity
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*Conservation of Natural Resources/trends
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Decision Making
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Ecosystem
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Environment
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Humans
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International Cooperation
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Plants
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Population Dynamics
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Public Policy
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
