Ecosystem services, the goods and services that ecosystems provide for human well-being, are increasingly adopted as a framework worldwide for ecological restoration and conservation, watershed management, and sustainable development policy making.
Ecology researchers are increasingly willing to be involved in conservation policy-making processes.
Stebbins was instrumental in the establishment of the Inventory of Rare and Endangered Vascular Plants of California by the California Native Plant Society; it is still used by state and federal bodies in the United States for conservation policy-making.
Situatedness of policy making.
In 2011, the university, along with WWF-Canada, created the Conservation Legacy For Oceans, which aimed at providing scholarships, funding, curriculum development, and work placements for students and academics dedicated to marine research, law, management, and policy making.
The department does not have a lead role in setting environmental conservation policy, but it makes research grants and participates in energy infrastructure policy in ways that can steer the national energy strategy.
Economists can help design incentive schemes to make conservation policy both effective and efficient.
I asked Sarah Greenberger, the Audubon Society's senior vice president of conservation policy, why the Trump administration might have made this interpretive change now.
This makes them broadly important for conservation policy.
To help make these connections between biodiversity data and conservation policy, several working groups are attempting to define essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) using a framework set up in 2013 by the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEOBON).
