The Convention on Biological Diversity as a legal framework for safeguarding ecosystem services

Prip, Christian

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.02.015

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“…In the educational arena, addressing the importance of SES from the perspective of ecosystem services could help to build these interdependences [41,45]. In the case of BD loss, almost half of the European citizens, when surveyed, did not think that they would be personally affected by this problem, despite the effects on the balance of ecosystems and on the current and future human well-being, in terms of human health, the economy and social relationships [46][47][48].…”

Section: Importance Of Socio-ecological Systems In Our Everyday Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Interdependences between Sustainability and Their Lifestyle That Pre-Service Teachers Establish When Addressing Socio-Ecological Problems

2019

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In the training of pre-service teachers, promoting changes in everyday activities to favour environmental conservation is still a challenge. This paper discusses the main difficulties of pre-service teachers in the process of building relationships between sustainability and their lifestyle. For this purpose, a problem-based learning programme was designed, consisting of three socio-ecological problems. In each of them, we analysed three components which define these interdependences: pressures, importance and solutions for conservation. There were 72 participants in the whole programme and 1296 responses were assessed, by establishing three levels of sophistication for the relationships between sustainability and their lifestyle in each component. The pre-service teachers readily admitted the pressures on the environment exerted by certain everyday activities. In addition, they progressed on the identification of the importance of ecosystem services in their lives, and they pay attention to those services linked to socio-economic and cultural activities. The greatest difficulties lay in proposing solutions of conservation that involve changes in personal habits towards more-sustainable ones. These difficulties are discussed, as well as the educational implications that may be derived.

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Section: Importance Of Socio-ecological Systems In Our Everyday Livesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Interdependences between Sustainability and Their Lifestyle That Pre-Service Teachers Establish When Addressing Socio-Ecological Problems

2019

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“…Until now, little is known about the spatial distribution of ES throughout the two territories and ES maps are scarce. Identification of relevant ES, their mapping and assessment are crucial first steps that should be the base for the development of related policies and legal frameworks (Burkhard et al 2018;Prip 2018).…”

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Mapping and assessing ecosystems and their services: a comparative approach to ecosystem service supply in Suriname and French Guiana

Sieber

Campagne

Villien

et al. 2021

Ecosystems and People

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Current environmental resource management policies acknowledge the need to manage and conserve biodiversity. Sustaining good ecosystem conditions and ecosystem services (ES) is imperative at and across multiple spatial scales. The ES concept is a valuable tool to communicate the benefits that nature provides to people. In the Guiana Shield, neighbouring countries share landscapes and ecosystems, and therefore also the services they supply. This study presents the first spatial ES assessments at territorial level for Suriname and French Guiana. Expert-based ES supply matrices were used and analysed in combination with Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) data to compile ES capacity maps for the two territories. In comparison, both ES supply matrices showed a high degree of similarity -forest ecosystems scored the highest ES capacities, followed by aquatic and marine ecosystems. Agricultural and urban land cover showed weak to moderate capacities for ES supply. A statistical analysis revealed a 30% difference of the two matrix assessments. Expert scores given for ES in Suriname exceeded those in French Guiana, especially for urban LULC and planted forests. Sociodemographic factors such as age, gender and institutional environment were analysed to explain this difference. The diverging scores can also be attributed to the distribution and the degree of similarity of the different LULC types and, hence, ES capacities and different governance and institutional contexts of the assessments. Comparative evaluations are essential to understand the differences in perception of ES supply capacities and to underpin future knowledge-based bilateral conservation policies and funding decisions by governments and managers.

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“…11 In addition, signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity have an obligation to monitor their biodiversity under Article 7. 12 In a number of nations, the monitoring of biodiversity is supported by long-running citizen science activities; 13 indeed, contributions from amateur naturalists to biodiversity data collection date back at least to the 19th century 14 , 15 (before this the distinction between amateur and professional scientists is blurred). However, recent years have arguably represented a significant shift in the amount of data collected by volunteer observers, 16 and in many cases observations are now accompanied by a digital image of the observation.…”

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AI Naturalists Might Hold the Key to Unlocking Biodiversity Data in Social Media Imagery

et al. 2020

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Summary The increasing availability of digital images, coupled with sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) techniques for image classification, presents an exciting opportunity for biodiversity researchers to create new datasets of species observations. We investigated whether an AI plant species classifier could extract previously unexploited biodiversity data from social media photos (Flickr). We found over 60,000 geolocated images tagged with the keyword “flower” across an urban and rural location in the UK and classified these using AI, reviewing these identifications and assessing the representativeness of images. Images were predominantly biodiversity focused, showing single species. Non-native garden plants dominated, particularly in the urban setting. The AI classifier performed best when photos were focused on single native species in wild situations but also performed well at higher taxonomic levels (genus and family), even when images substantially deviated from this. We present a checklist of questions that should be considered when undertaking a similar analysis.

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The Convention on Biological Diversity as a legal framework for safeguarding ecosystem services

Cited by 26 publications

References 8 publications

The Interdependences between Sustainability and Their Lifestyle That Pre-Service Teachers Establish When Addressing Socio-Ecological Problems

The Interdependences between Sustainability and Their Lifestyle That Pre-Service Teachers Establish When Addressing Socio-Ecological Problems

Mapping and assessing ecosystems and their services: a comparative approach to ecosystem service supply in Suriname and French Guiana

AI Naturalists Might Hold the Key to Unlocking Biodiversity Data in Social Media Imagery

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