Quantifying regulatory limits for multiple stressors in an open and transparent way.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity is confronted globally by multiple stressors. Environmental policies must regulate these stressors to achieve targets, but how should that be done when the outcomes of limits on one stressor are contingent on other stressors, about which there is imperfect knowledge? Deriving regulatory frameworks that incorporate these contingencies is an emerging challenge at the science-policy interface. To be fit for implementation, these frameworks need to facilitate the inherently sociopolitical process of policy implementation and account transparently for uncertainty, such that practitioners and other stakeholders can more realistically anticipate the range of potential outcomes to policy. We developed an approach to quantify stressor limits that explicitly accounts for multistressor c

SUBMITTER: Stoffels RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11959319 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature