Generation of priority research questions to inform conservation policy and management at a national level.

ABSTRACT: Integrating knowledge from across the natural and social sciences is necessary to effectively address societal tradeoffs between human use of biological diversity and its preservation. Collaborative processes can change the ways decision makers think about scientific evidence, enhance levels of mutual trust and credibility, and advance the conservation policy discourse. Canada has responsibility for a large fraction of some major ecosystems, such as boreal forests, Arctic tundra, wetlands, and temperate and Arctic oceans. Stressors to biological diversity within these ecosystems arise from activities of the country's resource-based economy, as well as external drivers of environmental change. Effective management is complicated by incongruence between ecological and political boundaries an

SUBMITTER: Rudd MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3108069 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature