| Titre : |
Empirical background papers : a view on global patterns and interlinkages of biodiversity and human development |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Lisa Freudenberger, Auteur ; Martin Schluck, Auteur ; Peter Hobson, Auteur |
| Importance : |
p 37-58 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
SCIENCES DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT
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| Mots-clés : |
DEVELOPPEMENT HUMAIN BIODIVERSITE CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE |
| Résumé : |
This paper proposes the use of the more than 9000 Ecopolitical Units (EPU 9000), a combination of all national state and ecoregional borders, as means of carrying out a detailed statistical assessment of the interdependencies and linkages between biodiversity , human development and global change. To determine general linkages between the social and ecological systems, a broad statistical analysis using 66 parameters related to biodiversity, environment, socioeconomics and politics was carried out. Both the statistical treatment and the mapping of selected relationships between different factors shed light on the spatial pattering of coinciding parameters. Major findings, for instance, have revealed a lack of evidence for a relationship between the distribution of carbon storage and vscular plant species richness although species richness appeared to correlate withe the degree of threat to biodiversity. However, highest carbon storage was found in those regions of the world that were identified as most intact and also corresponded with the lowest records for vascular plnt species richness. Further analysis of the data suggested there were associations to be found between various measures of social parameters such as international trade, demographic factors and human development and that these also correlated against the index for biodiversity. Furthermore human development and increasing wealth were associated with higher resource consumption and therefore with higher environmental costs and degradation. The findings of this study highlight a complexity of multiple factors underlying the status of global biodiversity that requires a pluralistic approach to integrative planning for biodiversity conservation and sustainable human wellbeing. In its pretext, this paper recognizes that current practices in social and environmental affairs operate in isolation and this is already having a severe impact on human wellbeing and biodiversity. High export rates coupled with increasing overexploitation of nature are driving down the provisioning of ecosystem services, and this in turn is most affecting local and poor communities in developing countries. The environmental costs for the high standards of living of more developed countries are in many cases externalized and shifted towards poorer countries with high biocapacity. The more developed countries are saving their own resources due to international trade. Areas in the northern boreal hemisphere like Russia, Japan and northern Europe are importing agricultural products while they maintain high quantities of forest coverage. Since biodiversity and human development are interacting and mutually dependent, conservation has to be incorporated in human development policy much more consciously and actively. Biodiversity conservation has to operate within the realistic expectations of social needs including growing demands on resources. The extreme effects of globalization on both ecology and social wellbeing demands a radical approach to future strategies of managing human environmental sustainability. |
| Numéro du document : |
AA GVI |
| Niveau Bibliographique : |
5 |
| Bull1 (Theme principale) : |
GESTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT |
| Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : |
ASPECTS SOCIO-ECONOMIQUES |
Empirical background papers : a view on global patterns and interlinkages of biodiversity and human development [texte imprimé] / Lisa Freudenberger, Auteur ; Martin Schluck, Auteur ; Peter Hobson, Auteur . - [s.d.] . - p 37-58. Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
SCIENCES DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT
|
| Mots-clés : |
DEVELOPPEMENT HUMAIN BIODIVERSITE CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE |
| Résumé : |
This paper proposes the use of the more than 9000 Ecopolitical Units (EPU 9000), a combination of all national state and ecoregional borders, as means of carrying out a detailed statistical assessment of the interdependencies and linkages between biodiversity , human development and global change. To determine general linkages between the social and ecological systems, a broad statistical analysis using 66 parameters related to biodiversity, environment, socioeconomics and politics was carried out. Both the statistical treatment and the mapping of selected relationships between different factors shed light on the spatial pattering of coinciding parameters. Major findings, for instance, have revealed a lack of evidence for a relationship between the distribution of carbon storage and vscular plant species richness although species richness appeared to correlate withe the degree of threat to biodiversity. However, highest carbon storage was found in those regions of the world that were identified as most intact and also corresponded with the lowest records for vascular plnt species richness. Further analysis of the data suggested there were associations to be found between various measures of social parameters such as international trade, demographic factors and human development and that these also correlated against the index for biodiversity. Furthermore human development and increasing wealth were associated with higher resource consumption and therefore with higher environmental costs and degradation. The findings of this study highlight a complexity of multiple factors underlying the status of global biodiversity that requires a pluralistic approach to integrative planning for biodiversity conservation and sustainable human wellbeing. In its pretext, this paper recognizes that current practices in social and environmental affairs operate in isolation and this is already having a severe impact on human wellbeing and biodiversity. High export rates coupled with increasing overexploitation of nature are driving down the provisioning of ecosystem services, and this in turn is most affecting local and poor communities in developing countries. The environmental costs for the high standards of living of more developed countries are in many cases externalized and shifted towards poorer countries with high biocapacity. The more developed countries are saving their own resources due to international trade. Areas in the northern boreal hemisphere like Russia, Japan and northern Europe are importing agricultural products while they maintain high quantities of forest coverage. Since biodiversity and human development are interacting and mutually dependent, conservation has to be incorporated in human development policy much more consciously and actively. Biodiversity conservation has to operate within the realistic expectations of social needs including growing demands on resources. The extreme effects of globalization on both ecology and social wellbeing demands a radical approach to future strategies of managing human environmental sustainability. |
| Numéro du document : |
AA GVI |
| Niveau Bibliographique : |
5 |
| Bull1 (Theme principale) : |
GESTION DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT |
| Bull2 (Theme secondaire) : |
ASPECTS SOCIO-ECONOMIQUES |
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