Biodiversity in the Anthropocene: prospects and policy.

ABSTRACT: Meeting the ever-increasing needs of the Earth's human population without excessively reducing biological diversity is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity, suggesting that new approaches to biodiversity conservation are required. One idea rapidly gaining momentum-as well as opposition-is to incorporate the values of biodiversity into decision-making using economic methods. Here, we develop several lines of argument for how biodiversity might be valued, building on recent developments in natural science, economics and science-policy processes. Then we provide a synoptic guide to the papers in this special feature, summarizing recent research advances relevant to biodiversity valuation and management. Current evidence suggests that more biodiverse systems have greater stability an

SUBMITTER: Seddon N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5204156 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature