Ten-year assessment of the 100 priority questions for global biodiversity conservation

Jucker, Tomasso, Wintle, Bonnie, Shackelford, Gorm, Bocquillon, Pierre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7384-4384, Geffert, Jan Laurens, Kasaor, Tim, Kovacs, Eszter, Mumby, Hannah S., Orland, Chloé, Schleicher, Judith, Tew, Eleanor R., Zabala, Aiora, Amano, Tatsuya, Bell, Alexandra, Bongalov, Boris, Chambers, Josephine M., Corrigan, Colleen, Durán, América P., Duvic-Paoli, Leslie-Anne, Emilson, Caroline, Fonseca da Silva, Jéssica, Garnett, Emma E., Green, Elizabeth J., Guth, Miriam K., Hacket-Pain, Andrew, Hinsley, Amy, Igea, Javier, Kunz, Martina, Luke, Sarah H., Lynam, William, Martin, Philip A., Nunes, Matheus H., Ockendon, Nancy, Pavitt, Aly, Payne, Charlotte L. R., Plutshack, Victoria, Rademacher, Tim T., Robertson, Rebecca J., Rose, David C., Serban, Anca, Simmons, Benno I., Emilson, Erik J. S., Tayleur, Catherine, Wordley, Claire F. R. and Mukherjee, Nibedita (2018) Ten-year assessment of the 100 priority questions for global biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 32 (6). pp. 1457-1463. ISSN 0888-8892

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Abstract

In 2008, a group of conservation scientists compiled a list of 100 priority questions for the conservation of the world's biodiversity [Sutherland et al. (2009) Conservation Biology, 23, 557–567]. However, now almost a decade later, no one has yet published a study gauging how much progress has been made in addressing these 100 high‐priority questions in the peer‐reviewed literature. Here we take a first step toward re‐examining the 100 questions and identify key knowledge gaps that still remain. Through a combination of a questionnaire and a literature review, we evaluated each of the 100 questions on the basis of two criteria: relevance and effort. We defined highly‐relevant questions as those which – if answered – would have the greatest impact on global biodiversity conservation, while effort was quantified based on the number of review publications addressing a particular question, which we used as a proxy for research effort. Using this approach we identified a set of questions that, despite being perceived as highly relevant, have been the focus of relatively few review publications over the past ten years. These questions covered a broad range of topics but predominantly tackled three major themes: the conservation and management of freshwater ecosystems, the role of societal structures in shaping interactions between people and the environment, and the impacts of conservation interventions. We see these questions as important knowledge gaps that have so far received insufficient attention and may need to be prioritised in future research.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: literature review,horizon scanning,knowledge gaps,network analysis,priority setting,questionnaire,research agenda,sdg 15 - life on land ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_on_land
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies
Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences
University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Theme - ClimateUEA
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies
Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy
Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics
University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Depositing User: LivePure Connector
Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2018 12:30
Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023 09:49
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67410
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.13159

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