Rio+20, biodiversity marginalized

Conservation Letters

Stéphanie M. Carrière³  Estienne Rodary³  Philippe Méral³  Georges Serpantié³  Valérie Boisvert³  Christian A. Kull¹  Guillaume Lestrelin³  Louise Lhoutellier³  Bernard Moizo³  Georges Smektala² 

[1] School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Building 11, Melbourne, Vic 3800, Australia;UMR GRED, AgroParisTech, 648 rue Jean-François Breton, BP 44494, 34093 Montpellier Cedex 5, France;IRD, UMR GRED, 911, Avenue Agropolis, BP 64501, 34394 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

关键词: Agroecosystems;    biodiversity conservation;    biodiversity governance;    market‐based instruments;    standardization;   

DOI  :  10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00291.x

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Abstract

At the Rio+20 Conference (June 2012), the biodiversity conservation agenda was subsumed into broader environmental issues like sustainable development, “green economy,” and climate change. This shoehorning of biodiversity issues is concomitant with a trend toward market-based instruments and toward standardized biodiversity assessment and monitoring. This article raises concern that these trends can marginalize important and specific aspects of biodiversity governance, including other policy tools and region-specific socio-ecological environments. Among other trends, this contributes to the marginalization of agroecosystems as habitat and matrix for biodiversity. Such agroecosystems, however, can have a major impact on conservation outcomes as they comprise a major part of terrestrial lands. If the biodiversity crisis is to be curbed, special attention must be drawn to societies, institutional approaches, and environments that are currently marginalized in conservation policies.

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