Assessing biodiversity risks with socio-economic methods [electronic resource] : the ALARM experience / edited by Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos [and nine others].

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ISBN:

9789546424914

9781283005890

Title:

Assessing biodiversity risks with socio-economic methods [electronic resource] : the ALARM experience / edited by Beatriz Rodriguez-Labajos [and nine others].

Author:

Rodriguez-Labajos, Beatriz, editor

Publication Information:

Pensoft Publishers 2009.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (366 pages)

Contents:

Cover -- Contents -- The Socio-Economics of Biodiversity Risks: Reasons for and Methods of Analysis, and Their Application in Case Studies -- 2. Challenges of Policy-Oriented Socio-Ecological Research -- 2.1. Biodiversity Under Menace, Why Is It a Social Matter? -- 2.2. Uncertainties, Risk Assessment and the Precautionary Principle -- 2.3. Ecosystem Services and Functions and Their (E)Valuation -- 2.4. Stakeholders8217; Involvement and Participation -- 2.5. Policy Measures and Social Reactions -- 3. Methodological Approach -- 4. Structure of the Contents -- 5. References -- Hydrilla Verticillata: A Socio-Economic Analysis of the Invasion Process in Lake Izabal, Guatemala -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Description of the Case Study -- 2.1. Characteristics of the Invasive Species -- 2.2. Driving Forces and Pressures -- 2.3. State -- 2.4. Impacts of Hydrilla Verticillata in Lake Izabal -- 2.5. Responses -- 3. Methods -- 3.1. Institutional Setting -- 3.2. Management Scenarios -- 3.3. The Multicriteria Model -- 4. Modelling Results -- 5. Discussion: Contribution of This Case Study to the Discussion of the Book -- 5.1. What Do We Mean By Threats to Biodiversity? -- 5.2. Stakeholder Involvement and Participatory Methods -- 5.3. Different Forms of Knowledge and Different Types of Information -- 6. Conclusions -- 7. References -- The Arrival of Dreissena Polymorpha and Silurus Glanis in the Ebro River: Socio-Economics of Interlinked Aquatic Bioinvasions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Invasions of Silurus Glanis and Dreissena Polymorpha in the Ebro River -- 2.1. Strangers in the Ebro River -- 2.2. The Drivers and Pressures of the Invasions -- 2.3. Impacts -- 2.4. Management of the Invasions -- 3. Bioinvasions in the Ebro and Participatory Research -- 4. Lessons Learned About the Key Topics of This Book -- 4.1. What Do We Mean By 8216;Threats to Biodiversity8217;? -- 4.2. Addressing Uncertainties -- 4.3. The Central Role of Ecosystem Services and Their Values -- 4.4. Stakeholders8217; Involvement and Participation -- 5. Additional Contributions From This Case -- 5.1. Scenarios Are Integrative Research Tools for Socio-Environmental Deliberation -- 5.2. Local Agency Matters -- 5.3. Common Enemies Facilitate Dialogues -- 6. Policy Conclusions and Recommendations -- 7. Methodological Conclusions and Recommendations -- 8. Acknowledgements -- 9. References -- 9.1. Legal Documents -- 9.2. Press -- The Use of the Deliberation Matrix for Building a System of Survey and the Foresight of Changes in Biodiversity in the 206;le-De-France Region (France) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. State of Scientific and Naturalist Knowledge About Changes in Biodiversity in the Idf Region -- 2.1. The State of Biodiversity in Idf -- 2.2. The Pressures, Impacts and Driving Forces -- 3. Methods Applied in the Field Work -- 3.1. The Stakeholders8217; Identification and Survey -- 3.2. Using the Dpsir Framework for Building a List of Indicators of Biodiversity At Regional Level -- 3.3. Participatory Scenario-Building -- 3.4. Identification of the Main Stakes for the Governance of Changes of the Idf Biodiversity -- 3.5. Deliberation Matrix: a Support Tool for Multicriteria, Multi-Stakeholder Evaluation of Cha.

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Corporate Subject:

Arid Lands and Resource Management Network.

Subject Term:

Biodiversity conservation.

Biodiversity conservation -- Economic aspects.

Biology, Economic.

Added Author:

Rodriguez-Labajos, Beatriz,

Spangenberg, Joachim H.,

Maxim, Laura,

Martinez-Alier, Joan,

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

Publication Information:

Pensoft Publishers 2009.

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Summary

Humans play an undeniable role in the acceleration of threats to the diversity of ecosystems, species and genes. This book is a response to the urgent need of policy oriented socio-ecological research, profoundly based on empirical evidence. Socio-environmental patterns and political responses are compared through the use of case studies analyzing a range of pressures to biodiversity. Aquatic bioinvasions in the Ebro River and Lake Izabal exemplify socio-environmental processes linked to river basins. Other cases examine processes at the regional level: the social attitudes to genetically modified organisms in Catalan agriculture, the implementation of a Regional Strategy for Biodiversity in the Ile-de-France, the management of an invasive insect in the city of Paris, and the comparative analysis in Kent (UK) and Tartu (Estonia) county of the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on pollinators' diversity. An economic valuation of the decline of pollinators in Germany and Spain, and an analysis of land use changes in the new EU member states focus on processes at the national scale within the EU frame. A case study in Argentina, about the emergence of pesticide resistance in an invasive pest, embodies the relationship between a national state and the processes of the world economy. The ALARM project aims to promote creative thinking. Inspired by ecological economics, methodologies employed range from multi-criteria evaluation and participatory techniques to social network analysis, valuation of environmental services, scenario modelling and historical analysis. The authors have uniquely explored case-study-based research for socio-economic analyses of biodiversity risks. Emphasis is put both on the lessons learnt from the comparative analysis as well as on the methodological innovations.

Summary

Humans play an undeniable role in the acceleration of threats to the diversity of ecosystems, species and genes. This book is a response to the urgent need of policy oriented socio-ecological research, profoundly based on empirical evidence. Socio-environmental patterns and political responses are compared through the use of case studies analyzing a range of pressures to biodiversity. Aquatic bioinvasions in the Ebro River and Lake Izabal exemplify socio-environmental processes linked to river basins. Other cases examine processes at the regional level: the social attitudes to genetically modified organisms in Catalan agriculture, the implementation of a Regional Strategy for Biodiversity in the Ile-de-France, the management of an invasive insect in the city of Paris, and the comparative analysis in Kent (UK) and Tartu (Estonia) county of the effects of the Common Agricultural Policy on pollinators diversity. An economic valuation of the decline of pollinators in Germany and Spain, and an analysis of land use changes in the new EU member states focus on processes at the national scale within the EU frame. A case study in Argentina, about the emergence of pesticide resistance in an invasive pest, embodies the relationship between a national state and the processes of the world economy. The ALARM project aims to promote creative thinking. Inspired by ecological economics, methodologies employed range from multi-criteria evaluation and participatory techniques to social network analysis, valuation of environmental services, scenario modelling and historical analysis. The authors have uniquely explored case-study-based research for socio-economic analyses of biodiversity risks. Emphasis is put both on the lessons learnt from the comparative analysis as well as on the methodological innovations."