Subterranean
ecosystems
(comprising
terrestrial,
semi-aquatic,
and
aquatic
components)
are
increasingly
threatened
by
human
activities;
however,
the
current
network
of
surface-protected
areas
is
inadequate
to
safeguard
subterranean
biodiversity.
Establishing
protected
for
challenging.
First,
there
technical
obstacles
in
mapping
three-dimensional
with
uncertain
boundaries.
Second,
rarity
endemism
organisms,
combined
a
scarcity
taxonomists,
delays
accumulation
essential
biodiversity
knowledge.
Third,
establishing
agreements
preserve
requires
collaboration
among
multiple
actors
often
competing
interests.
This
perspective
addresses
challenges
preserving
through
areas.
Even
face
uncertainties,
we
suggest
it
both
timely
critical
assess
general
criteria
protection
implement
them
based
on
precautionary
principles.
To
this
end,
examine
status
European
discuss
solutions
improve
their
coverage
ecosystems.
Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
14(3), С. 1222 - 1222
Опубликована: Янв. 21, 2022
Corporate
Social
Responsibility
(CSR)
has
been
an
articulated
practice
for
over
7
decades.
Still,
most
corporations
lack
integrated
framework
to
develop
a
strategic,
balanced,
and
effective
approach
achieving
excellence
in
CSR.
Considering
the
world’s
critical
situation
during
COVID-19
pandemic,
such
is
even
more
crucial
now.
We
suggest
subsuming
CRS
categories
under
Sustainable
Development
Goals
(SDGs)
be
used
that
they
subsume
CSR
since
SDGs
are
comprehensive
agenda
designed
whole
planet.
This
study
presents
new
drivers
model
novel
model.
Then,
it
highlights
advantages
of
integrating
framework.
The
proposed
benefits
from
both
SDGs,
addresses
current
future
needs,
offers
better
roadmap
with
measurable
outcomes.
Nature Sustainability,
Год журнала:
2021,
Номер
5(1), С. 37 - 46
Опубликована: Ноя. 18, 2021
Abstract
Avoiding
catastrophic
climate
change
requires
rapid
decarbonization
and
improved
ecosystem
stewardship
at
a
planetary
scale.
The
carbon
released
through
the
burning
of
fossil
fuels
would
take
millennia
to
regenerate
on
Earth.
Though
timeframe
recovery
for
ecosystems
such
as
peatlands,
mangroves
old-growth
forests
is
shorter
(centuries),
this
still
exceeds
time
we
have
remaining
avoid
worst
impacts
global
warming.
There
are
some
natural
places
that
cannot
afford
lose
due
their
irreplaceable
reserves.
Here
map
‘irrecoverable
carbon’
globally
identify
remains
within
human
purview
manage
and,
if
lost,
could
not
be
recovered
by
mid-century,
when
need
reach
net-zero
emissions
impacts.
Since
2010,
agriculture,
logging
wildfire
caused
least
4.0
Gt
irrecoverable
carbon.
world’s
139.1
±
443.6
faces
risks
from
land-use
conversion
change.
These
can
reduced
proactive
protection
adaptive
management.
Currently,
23.0%
protected
areas
33.6%
managed
Indigenous
peoples
local
communities.
Half
Earth’s
concentrated
just
3.3%
its
land,
highlighting
opportunities
targeted
efforts
increase
security.
Biodiversity and Conservation,
Год журнала:
2021,
Номер
31(2), С. 325 - 352
Опубликована: Дек. 1, 2021
Abstract
Area-based
conservation
is
essential
to
safeguard
nature’s
diversity.
In
view
of
expanding
human
land
use,
increasing
climate
change
and
unmet
targets,
area-based
requires
efficiency
effectiveness
more
than
ever.
this
review,
I
identify
relate
pressing
challenges
promising
opportunities
for
effective
efficient
protected
area
governance
management,
enhance
research,
decision-making
capacity
building
in
under
uncertain
future
developments.
reveal
that
management
particularly
challenged
by
change,
invasive
species,
social,
political
economic
limitations.
Protected
often
lacks
the
continuous
availability
data
on
current
states
trends
nature
threats.
Biocultural
conservation,
climate-smart
biosecurity
approaches
help
overcome
induced
needs,
respectively.
Economic
valuation
shifts
funding
priorities
can
boost
efficiency.
In-situ
monitoring
techniques,
remote
sensing
open
infrastructures
fill
information
gaps
planning
management.
Moreover,
adaptive
an
auspicious
concept
framework
systematic
ensure
enduring
areas
despite
unpredictable
Post-2020
international
biodiversity
sustainable
development
goals
could
be
met
earlier
if
were
effective.
consequently
conclude
with
need
a
global
system
support
synthesizing
at
local
level.
Journal of Applied Ecology,
Год журнала:
2021,
Номер
58(11), С. 2384 - 2393
Опубликована: Сен. 21, 2021
Abstract
There
is
an
increasing
recognition
that,
although
the
climate
change
and
biodiversity
crises
are
fundamentally
connected,
they
have
been
primarily
addressed
independently
a
more
integrated
global
approach
essential
to
tackle
these
two
challenges.
Nature‐based
Solutions
(NbS)
hailed
as
pathway
for
promoting
synergies
between
agendas.
are,
however,
uncertainties
difficulties
associated
with
implementation
of
NbS,
while
evidence
regarding
their
benefits
remains
limited.
We
identify
five
key
research
areas
where
incomplete
or
poor
information
hinders
development
solutions.
These
relate
refining
our
understanding
how
mitigation
adaptation
approaches
benefit
conservation;
enhancing
ability
track
predict
ecosystems
on
move
and/or
facing
collapse;
improving
capacity
impacts
effectiveness
NbS;
developing
solutions
that
match
temporal,
spatial
functional
scale
challenges;
comprehensive
practical
framework
assessing,
mitigating
against,
risks
posed
by
NbS.
Policy
implications
.
The
Conference
Parties
(COP)
United
Nations
Framework
Convention
Climate
Change
(COP26)
Biological
Diversity
(COP15)
present
clear
policy
window
coherent
frameworks
align
targets
across
nexus
change.
This
should
(a)
address
substantial
chronic
underfunding
conservation,
(b)
remove
financial
incentives
negatively
impact
change,
(c)
develop
higher
levels
integration
agendas,
(d)
agree
monitoring
enables
standardised
quantification
comparison
gains
NbS
over
time
(e)
rethink
environmental
legislation
better
support
conservation
in
times
rapid
climatic
Science,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
376(6597), С. 1101 - 1104
Опубликована: Июнь 2, 2022
Global
policies
call
for
connecting
protected
areas
(PAs)
to
conserve
the
flow
of
animals
and
genes
across
changing
landscapes,
yet
whether
global
PA
networks
currently
support
animal
movement-and
where
connectivity
conservation
is
most
critical-remain
largely
unknown.
In
this
study,
we
map
functional
world's
terrestrial
PAs
quantify
national
through
lens
moving
mammals.
We
find
that
mitigating
human
footprint
may
improve
more
than
adding
new
PAs,
although
both
strategies
together
maximize
benefits.
The
globally
important
concentrated
mammal
movement
remain
unprotected,
with
71%
these
overlapping
biodiversity
priority
6%
occurring
on
land
moderate
high
modification.
Conservation
restoration
critical
could
safeguard
while
supporting
other
priorities.
AMBIO,
Год журнала:
2021,
Номер
50(4), С. 767 - 781
Опубликована: Янв. 16, 2021
The
COVID-19
pandemic
has
brought
profound
social,
political,
economic,
and
environmental
challenges
to
the
world.
virus
may
have
emerged
from
wildlife
reservoirs
linked
disruption,
was
transmitted
humans
via
trade,
its
spread
facilitated
by
economic
globalization.
arrived
at
a
time
when
wildfires,
high
temperatures,
floods,
storms
amplified
human
suffering.
These
call
for
powerful
response
that
addresses
social
development,
climate
change,
biodiversity
together,
offering
an
opportunity
bring
transformational
change
structure
functioning
of
global
economy.
This
biodefense
can
include
"One
Health"
approach
in
all
relevant
sectors;
greener
agriculture
minimizes
greenhouse
gas
emissions
leads
healthier
diets;
sustainable
forms
energy;
more
effective
international
agreements;
post-COVID
development
is
equitable
sustainable;
nature-compatible
trade.
Restoring
enhancing
protected
areas
as
part
devoting
50%
planet's
land
environmentally
sound
management
conserves
would
also
support
adaptation
limit
contact
with
zoonotic
pathogens.
essential
links
between
health
well-being,
biodiversity,
could
inspire
new
generation
innovators
provide
green
solutions
enable
live
healthy
balance
nature
leading
long-term
resilient
future.
Global Change Biology,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
28(9), С. 2846 - 2874
Опубликована: Янв. 31, 2022
The
two
most
urgent
and
interlinked
environmental
challenges
humanity
faces
are
climate
change
biodiversity
loss.
We
entering
a
pivotal
decade
for
both
the
international
agendas
with
sharpening
of
ambitious
strategies
targets
by
Convention
on
Biological
Diversity
United
Nations
Framework
Climate
Change.
Within
their
respective
Conventions,
have
largely
been
addressed
separately.
There
is
evidence
that
conservation
actions
halt,
slow
or
reverse
loss
can
simultaneously
anthropogenic
mediated
significantly.
This
review
highlights
which
largest
potential
mitigation
change.
note
mainly
synergistic
benefits
few
antagonistic
trade-offs
mitigation.
Specifically,
we
identify
direct
co-benefits
in
14
out
21
action
draft
post-2020
global
framework
Diversity,
notwithstanding
many
indirect
links
also
support
These
relationships
context
scale-dependent;
therefore,
showcase
examples
local
be
incentivized,
guided
prioritized
objectives
targets.
close
interlinkages
between
biodiversity,
mitigation,
other
nature's
contributions
to
people
good
quality
life
seldom
as
integrated
they
should
management
policy.
aims
re-emphasize
vital
timely
manner,
major
Conferences
Parties
about
negotiate
strategic
frameworks
goals
decades
come.
Nature Ecology & Evolution,
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
7(1), С. 51 - 61
Опубликована: Ноя. 28, 2022
Abstract
Sustaining
the
organisms,
ecosystems
and
processes
that
underpin
human
wellbeing
is
necessary
to
achieve
sustainable
development.
Here
we
define
critical
natural
assets
as
semi-natural
provide
90%
of
total
current
magnitude
14
types
nature’s
contributions
people
(NCP),
map
global
locations
these
at
2
km
resolution.
Critical
for
maintaining
local-scale
NCP
(12
NCP)
account
30%
land
area
24%
national
territorial
waters,
while
44%
required
also
maintain
two
global-scale
(carbon
storage
moisture
recycling).
These
areas
overlap
substantially
with
cultural
diversity
(areas
containing
96%
languages)
biodiversity
(covering
requirements
73%
birds
66%
mammals).
At
least
87%
world’s
population
live
in
benefitting
from
NCP,
only
16%
on
lands
assets.
Many
mapped
here
are
left
out
international
agreements
focused
conserving
species
or
mitigating
climate
change,
yet
this
analysis
shows
explicitly
prioritizing
they
could
simultaneously
advance
development,
conservation
goals.