How environmental futures can inform decision making: A review

Gibbs, David A.; Flotemersch, Joe

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2019.02.023

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“…Amphibian sustainability depends on garnering social, cultural, and political support that blends traditional, conventional, and emerging themes toward sustainability [160,165,169,175]. These extend to engagement between internationalised RBCs and traditional eco-sociological systems [176].…”

Section: Biocultural Approaches and Marketingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecological Civilisation and Amphibian Sustainability through Reproduction Biotechnologies, Biobanking, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs)

Browne,

Luo,

Wang

et al. 2024

Animals

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Intergenerational justice entitles the maximum retention of Earth’s biodiversity. The 2022 United Nations COP 15, “Ecological Civilisation: Building a Shared Future for All Life on Earth”, is committed to protecting 30% of Earth’s terrestrial environments and, through COP 28, to mitigate the effects of the climate catastrophe on the biosphere. We focused this review on three core themes: the need and potential of reproduction biotechnologies, biobanks, and conservation breeding programs (RBCs) to satisfy sustainability goals; the technical state and current application of RBCs; and how to achieve the future potentials of RBCs in a rapidly evolving environmental and cultural landscape. RBCs include the hormonal stimulation of reproduction, the collection and storage of sperm and oocytes, and artificial fertilisation. Emerging technologies promise the perpetuation of species solely from biobanked biomaterials stored for perpetuity. Despite significant global declines and extinctions of amphibians, and predictions of a disastrous future for most biodiversity, practical support for amphibian RBCs remains limited mainly to a few limited projects in wealthy Western countries. We discuss the potential of amphibian RBCs to perpetuate amphibian diversity and prevent extinctions within multipolar geopolitical, cultural, and economic frameworks. We argue that a democratic, globally inclusive organisation is needed to focus RBCs on regions with the highest amphibian diversity. Prioritisation should include regional and international collaborations, community engagement, and support for RBC facilities ranging from zoos and other institutions to those of private carers. We tabulate a standard terminology for field programs associated with RBCs for publication and media consistency.

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Section: Biocultural Approaches and Marketingmentioning

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Ecological Civilisation and Amphibian Sustainability through Reproduction Biotechnologies, Biobanking, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs)

Browne,

Luo,

Wang

et al. 2024

Animals

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“…Integrated water resources management (IWRM) encourages the coordinated acquisition and handling of water resources, with the participation of diverse stakeholders, from those related to natural water storage to end users, in order to develop economic and social welfare without risking vital ecosystems sustainability [1][2][3]. In this approach, the foresight techniques application has gained popularity, since it considers the most probable changes of a system and established a strategic plan to achieve a desirable future, as well as precautionary measures to control this transition [1,[4][5][6].…”

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Territorial Prospective to Sustainability: Strategies for Future Successful of Water Resource Management on Andean Basins

Mera-Parra

Massa-Sánchez

Oñate-Valdivieso

et al. 2022

Land

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In Latin America, water resource management in some areas is difficult when all parts of a system are not considered (including its dynamism). Therefore, it becomes necessary to prepare instruments that facilitate management using a comprehensive approach. This study aimed to develop a methodology that allows one to conduct a prospective analysis of water management over delimited territories. The Zamora Huayco basin was chosen as the study area. This work included a survey of physical-natural, socioeconomic, and political-institutional variables, as well as a system structural analysis. Also, the generation of future scenarios and the strategic and tactical orientation for the integrated management of water resources. The results show that, of the 23 variables used, 19 were classified as key system variables. Most of the variables had strong impacts on each other, but at the same time these were highly receptive to changes. The behavior of change, proposed for the different uses and land cover in the basin for 2029, was considered as the objective scenario, highlighting the gain in forest areas and shrub vegetation. The strategic plans proposed in this methodology consider the structuring and collecting information in a single repository, creating communication channels between stakeholders and decision-makers.

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A foresight analysis in fisheries science: The case study of migratory fish research

Lambert

Lassalle

Acolas

et al. 2019

Futures

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How environmental futures can inform decision making: A review

Cited by 4 publications

References 18 publications

Ecological Civilisation and Amphibian Sustainability through Reproduction Biotechnologies, Biobanking, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs)

Ecological Civilisation and Amphibian Sustainability through Reproduction Biotechnologies, Biobanking, and Conservation Breeding Programs (RBCs)

Territorial Prospective to Sustainability: Strategies for Future Successful of Water Resource Management on Andean Basins

A foresight analysis in fisheries science: The case study of migratory fish research

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