Science and development of government policy post-Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: lessons for the future

Chase, Mark W.; Ali, Natasha S.; Paton, Alan; Lughadha, Eimear Nic; Fay, Michael F.

doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2011.01158.x

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“…Targets have delivered similar results in international biodiversity governance. The Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC), a framework of 16 outcome-oriented targets adopted by the CBD CoP in 2002, has achieved some success in engaging stakeholders and prompting the formation of networks supporting national implementation (see Chase et al, 2011). It has also been noticed that global marine protection targets have stimulated political will and action to protect marine waters (see Wood, 2011).…”

Section: International Targets and Epi: Exploring The Linksmentioning

confidence: 97%

International targets and environmental policy integration: The 2010 Biodiversity Target and its impact on international policy and national implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gomar¹

2014

Global Environmental Change

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Section: International Targets and Epi: Exploring The Linksmentioning

confidence: 97%

International targets and environmental policy integration: The 2010 Biodiversity Target and its impact on international policy and national implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gomar¹

2014

Global Environmental Change

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“…The use of large biodiversity databases to develop lists of taxa for countries and regions, and to answer biogeographical and ecological questions, is also moving forward, such as with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and other more specific projects (e.g., tropical Africa, Sosef & al., 2017; the Amazon region, Cardoso & al., 2017). It should also be mentioned that many global conservation initiatives have been underway, such as the successful Global Strategy for Plant Conservation (GSPC; Chase & al., 2011), which also supports the need for global inventorying.…”

Section: ■ Priorities For the Systematic Biology Communitymentioning

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Challenges facing systematic biology

Stuessy

2020

TAXON

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Systematic biology is fundamental for providing organized information about the living world. It clarifies what organisms share our planet, and it also reveals the basic short-term and long-term processes that have given rise to this diversity. Human society is rapidly modernizing, largely through increased digital communications tied closely to satellite innovations. Communication is now global and instantaneous, allied with an awareness of place made possible by global positioning technology. Despite many positive recent developments, numerous tensions remain that threaten a tranquil world order and negatively impact biodiversity, such as between developed and developing countries, democratic and authoritarian governments, and among religious groups. The increasing human population is also bringing pressures to bear on global biodiversity through activities that result in air and water pollution, topsoil erosion, deforestation, ozone depletion, global warming, and taxic loss. The systematic biology community has been unable to respond effectively to these many new challenges due to fragmentation and lack of cohesion. Systematists have tended to focus more on issues relevant to their own taxonomic groups (e.g., bacteria, ferns, fungi, reptiles, mammals, etc.) and much less on global concerns. Systematists must become better organized to allow the global priority of inventorying the planet to be achieved as soon as practicable. A global organization, an International Federation for Systematic Biology, should be formed to serve as a coordinator to help articulate five-year and longer plans. Large-scale funding (billions of dollars) must be sought to allow implementation of shared goals. Projects must be created that more obviously connect in some fashion to major societal problems such as poverty, water resources, food production, and human health. The astronomy and nuclear physics communities provide models of successful planning and implementation, the former on understanding the extreme distant reality of our existence, and the latter on the extremely small atomic dimensions. Systematic biology focuses largely on understanding the middle range of reality that we can see and more easily directly experience. Making the case for understanding at this level should, in principle, be the easiest of all. Fundamental is that projects be simple in concept, visionary in perspective, and offering economic stimulus for participants (i.e., the creation of new jobs).

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“…Many conservation, environmental, legal and other matters hinge on scientific names, including their status, and thus on taxonomy (Scotland et al ., 2003; Chase et al ., 2011; Crouch & Smith, 2011; McNeely, 2011). It also becomes increasingly clear that biodiversity is a resource which can be tapped to enhance human welfare (Wilson, 2000; Scotland et al ., 2003; Blackmore, Gibby & Rae, 2011; Wyse Jackson & Sharrock, 2011).…”

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A concise bibliographic overview of Annonaceae

Erkens

Mennega²,

Westra

2012

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

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It is important that taxonomic knowledge is disseminated by those who possess it. This can be carried out via online databases, printed publications or training in taxonomic practice. For Annonaceae, the online database AnnonBase includes all published names of Annonaceae at any rank worldwide. Recently, an updated index to genera, species and infraspecific taxa of Neotropical Annonaceae was published in hard copy. This manuscript contains a concise update to the Bibliography of Annonaceae published by the late E. A. Mennega in 1993. Since his publication, much work has been carried out on systematics and evolution of Annonaceae, with the advent of molecular phylogenetics providing an additional stimulus. Here, however, we concentrate only on taxonomic papers focusing specifically on the description and circumscription of taxa (e.g. revisions, monographs, floras, checklists, descriptions of new species or phylogenetic studies that show monophyly/polyphyly/paraphyly of genera). The index should provide an easy entrance into the most important taxonomic literature on Annonaceae from 1900 onwards for the trained and untrained taxonomist with an interest in Annonaceae. © 2012 The Linnean Society of London, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 2012, 169, 41–73.

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Science and development of government policy post-Global Strategy for Plant Conservation: lessons for the future

Cited by 5 publications

References 11 publications

International targets and environmental policy integration: The 2010 Biodiversity Target and its impact on international policy and national implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean

International targets and environmental policy integration: The 2010 Biodiversity Target and its impact on international policy and national implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Challenges facing systematic biology

A concise bibliographic overview of Annonaceae

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