Conserving Biological Diversity and Sustainability: International Perspectives
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2021) | Viewed by 3098
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental policy; incentives for conservation; sustainable development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As codified in Sustainable Development Goal #15, conserving biological diversity is inherently linked to the sustainability of life on earth. In addition to its contribution to maintaining ecosystem health and ecosystem services, by providing other associated impacts such as improving humans’ physical and mental health and contributing to local economies, conservation can influence not only environmental sustainability but also the social and economic dimensions of sustainability. Many of these effects are global in nature as the impacts of tropical deforestation, biodiversity loss and resource depletion extend beyond the local area to influence climate change, food production, economic development and disease transmission around the globe. In this special issue of Sustainability, an open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishing international and cross-disciplinary research concerning the multiple dimensions of sustainability, we invite manuscripts involving the integration of biodiversity conservation and sustainability with special focus on research from different countries and with global implications. In recognizing the different dimensions of sustainability, submissions are invited from both scholars and practitioners, from multiple disciplinary perspectives and focusing on conservation science as well as policy.
Potential areas of interest:
- Innovative strategies for conserving biodiversity
- Contribution of biological diversity to local and global economies
- Evaluating sustainability impacts of global conservation organizations
- Contribution of conservation biology to sustainability outcomes
- Economic incentives and non-regulatory conservation policy instruments
- Biological diversity and the sustainable development goals
- Measuring ecosystem services and sustainability outcomes
- Local participation in biodiversity conservation
- Sustainability of biological conservation initiatives
- Integration of conservation and economic development
Prof. Dr. Peter Beck
Dr. Amy L. Concilio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Biological diversity
- conservation biology
- biological conservation
- conservation policy
- conservation and sustainability
- environment and development
- ecosystem services
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