Biodiversity: Concepts, patterns, trends, and perspectives

S Díaz, Y Malhi - Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
Biodiversity, a term now widely employed in science, policy, and wider society, has a
burgeoning associated literature. We synthesize aspects of this literature, focusing on …

Ensuring effective implementation of the post-2020 global biodiversity targets

H Xu, Y Cao, D Yu, M Cao, Y He, M Gill… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Biodiversity underpins the fundamental elements for human well-being including food
security, human health and access to clean water. In 2010, the Aichi Targets were adopted …

Earth beyond six of nine planetary boundaries

K Richardson, W Steffen, W Lucht, J Bendtsen… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
This planetary boundaries framework update finds that six of the nine boundaries are
transgressed, suggesting that Earth is now well outside of the safe operating space for …

[HTML][HTML] Overfishing drives over one-third of all sharks and rays toward a global extinction crisis

NK Dulvy, N Pacoureau, CL Rigby, RA Pollom… - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
The scale and drivers of marine biodiversity loss are being revealed by the International
Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment process. We present the first …

Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

F Isbell, P Balvanera, AS Mori, JS He… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite substantial progress in understanding global biodiversity loss, major taxonomic and
geographic knowledge gaps remain. Decision makers often rely on expert judgement to fill …

[ספר][B] The economics of biodiversity

P Dasgupta - 2024‏ - books.google.com
We are part of Nature, not separate from it. We rely on Nature to provide us with food, water
and shelter; regulate our climate and disease; maintain nutrient cycles and oxygen …

Set ambitious goals for biodiversity and sustainability

S Díaz, N Zafra-Calvo, A Purvis, PH Verburg, D Obura… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
Global biodiversity policy is at a crossroads. Recent global assessments of living nature (1,
2) and climate (3) show worsening trends and a rapidly narrowing window for action. The …

[HTML][HTML] Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions

P Leadley, A Gonzalez, D Obura, CB Krug… - One earth, 2022‏ - cell.com
Governments are negotiating actions intended to halt biodiversity loss and put it on a path to
recovery by 2050. Here, we show that bending the curve for biodiversity is possible, but only …

Nature and COVID-19: The pandemic, the environment, and the way ahead

JA McNeely - Ambio, 2021‏ - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought profound social, political, economic, and
environmental challenges to the world. The virus may have emerged from wildlife reservoirs …

Economic factors underlying biodiversity loss

P Dasgupta, S Levin - Philosophical Transactions of the …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Contemporary economic thinking does not acknowledge that the human economy is
embedded in Nature; it instead treats humanity as a customer that draws on Nature. In this …