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Conservation of Latin America freshwater biodiversity: beyond political borders

. (2021) are highly relevant, but not unique to Brazil as they apply to most other countries in Latin America. We acknowledge that national circumstances relative to political cycles and specific national ... initiatives discussed here and provide a robust foundation for mutual confidence and political trust to advance international transdisciplinary cooperation (Biswas, 2011) . The GBF is an opportunity for

Discourses on landscape governance and transfrontier conservation areas: converging, diverging and evolving discourses with geographic contextual nuances

Connectivity, Policies and Strategies, Political Ecology, and Management of Protected Areas. The discourses depict commonalities attributed to conservation, power and actor roles. However, LG is more governance ... four (Policies and Strategies) are strongly anchored in LG. While the first clusters are clearly delineated from each other, clusters five (Political Ecology) and six BiodiversityandConservation t

Transformative change for biodiversity requires more inclusive and participatory framing of research agendas

receiving increased attention both within the political as well as in the scientific arena, but what transformative change entails still remains scientifically unclear. In this paper we report on a research ... -resources-agricultureand-environment_horizon-2023-2024_en.pdf (europa.eu). The EU Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG-RTD) recognises that research on a societal and political

Disparity between ecological and political timeframes for species conservation targets

show a reduction in extinction risk, and the political timeframes over which such ecological change is expected to be achieved and detected. We suggest that quantitative analyses should be used to set ... of conservation progress in order to maintain political and societal motivation for species conservation. Aichi Target 12; Convention on Biological Diversity; Species extinctions; IUCN Red List

Food Advertising Targeted at Children: Examining the Effects of Parent’s Personal Moral Philosophy, Parenting Style, and Gender

of personal moral philosophy of parents and their parenting style on their attitudes toward advertising targeted at children. Morover, most of the existing research focuses on only mother-child ... of parents about the issue including situational factors (i.e. age and gender of the children) and individual differences (i.e. moral philosophy, ethical judgments, parenting style) (Chan and McNeal

Conservation by trans-border cooperation: population genetic structure and diversity of geoffroy’s bat (Myotis emarginatus) at its north-western european range edge

, preserving the connectivity of mating sites requires concerted conservation efforts across multiple political jurisdictions. Genetic monitoring ought to be done on a regular basis to ensure that large-scale ... possible exceptions of ‘Riemst’ and ‘Lippelo’; see above), conservation managers face a situation where the same large population occurs across a large geographic scale and multiple political jurisdiction

Agricultural heritage systems and agrobiodiversity

current requirements of industrial agriculture, has brought to unsustainable agricultural systems characterized by high external energy inputs and by a high fragility to environmental and political shocks ... worsening, but also when political and economic shocks occur, as in the case of the current war between Russia and Ukraine. The globalization of cereal production, with few countries producing most of the

Challenges and opportunities of area-based conservation in reaching biodiversity and sustainability goals

, climate change, invasive species, and social, political and economic limitations. Protected area management often lacks the continuous availability of data on current states and trends of nature and threats ... political, economic, social and cultural issues should be considered by management plans (Redpath et  al. 2013) . Protected area management consequently needs to describe, explain and communicate

Transformative change – a complex, multifaceted challenge for humanity

transition, declared as an ambitious political agenda. The author emphasises the “dono-harm” principle, which bestows a responsibility on every nation to prevent, reduce, and control the risk of environmental

Unstructured citizen science reduces the perception of butterfly local extinctions: the interplay between species traits and user effort

 Humanities and Philosophy, University of Florence, Florence, Italy Aristeidou M , Herodotou C , Ballard HL et al ( 2021 ) Exploring the participation of young citizen scientists in scientific research: the

Overcoming biases and identifying opportunities for citizen science to contribute more to global macroinvertebrate conservation

. 2020) . Many have underlying social, economic, and political ties that affect how CS is, or is not, utilized in certain geographic areas (Blake et al. 2020; Bonney et al. 2009; McKinley et al. 2017 ... ) . Some of these factors include country wealth, political stability, social convention, and biophobia associated with some macroinvertebrate groups (Soga et al. 2023) . It is important to understand all

Application of the continuum suitability index (csi) model to display the permeability of the alpine-dinaric landscape and to define intervention priorities for ecological linkages

to identify actions on the ground in order to enhance the macro-regional ecological network, to respond to the political and economic circumstances that have created transboundary barriers between ... measures to connect them. A substantial part of the Balkan peninsula in the DINALPCONNECT project area has been affected by turbulent political conflicts in the recent past, which have weakened transboundary

Analyzing the capacity to initiate transformative change: a methodology for assessing biodiversity strategies

, quantified targets and action plans; weak political support and interministerial governance; unclear distribution of roles among all stakeholders; lack of a monitoring and assessment system. The SNB2 has led ... political and economic decisions at all levels (Novalia and Malekpour 2020) . Institutions, conventions, social norms, legal rules are underpinned by certain values and in turn support them, thus

Ghana ecological risks: a space law and science education approach to the management frameworks

, macroeconomic, agricultural infrastructure, and political (Mahapatra and Kant 2005) . All these studies have highlighted three important aspects of sustainability and preservation of the ecosystems in Ghana ... private sector partnerships, with short-term political considerations and winning elections a greater focus for Ghana’s main political parties and actors instead of economic development. This respondent

From ecological knowledge to conservation policy: a case study on green tree retention and continuous-cover forestry in Sweden

areas, but knowledge from other disciplines and other socio-political factors appear to have been more important than ecological arguments in the case of CCF. The wide uptake of GTR was enhanced by its ... place for CCF. Thus, scientific ecological knowledge may play an important role for policy uptake and development, but knowledge from other research disciplines and socio-political factors are also

Determining puma habitat suitability in the Eastern USA

to pumas being perceived as less threatening to livestock and game populations. Likewise, regional differences in values (see Manfredo et al. 2020) and political ideologies change the cultural context ... 19 ( 5 ): 292 - 299 Gill , R.B. ( 2010 ) “To save a mountain lion: evolving philosophy of nature and cougars,” in Cougar Ecology and Conservation (Ed Mornocker M and Negri S ). pp 5 - 16 . University

Public authorities for transformative change: integration principle in public funding

, political, governance, institutional, demographic, technical and technological factors and changes (IPBES 2021) . In the past years, the scientific appeals appear to start being picked up in political ... at the approach adopted by the European Union (EU) in enacting ‘green transition’, declared as an ambitious political agenda. The EU is studied as a case of a governance framework with a high level of

Transformative potential of conservation actions

efforts, which can influence the broader political agenda. Increased awareness can influence rules of the system (LP5), for example, the Red List assessments have influenced legislation in Finland (Salomaa ... addition, Fougères et  al. recommend partnering with political movements to achieve just transformation. Indeed, conservation should build on principles of transformative governance, being integrative

Still viable despite criticism: complexities of evaluating the performance of ICDPs

mismatch between the historical, geographical, socio-economic, structural, political, institutional, and/or local motivational contexts. Implementing agencies of ICDPs still struggle to prove whether they

Genetic surfing during the range expansion of an endangered large carnivore

/10.1111/ 1755 - 0998 . 12387 Kuiper T , Dickman AJ , Hinks AE , Sillero-Zubiri C , Macdonald EA , Macdonald DW ( 2018 ) Combining biological and socio‐political criteria to set spatial conservation