Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth

Otero, Iago; Farrell, Katharine N.; Pueyo, Salvador; Kallis, Giorgos; Kehoe, Laura; Haberl, Helmut; Plutzar, Christoph; Hobson, Peter; García-Márquez, Jaime; Rodríguez-Labajos, Beatriz; Martin, Jean-Louis; Erb, Karl-Heinz; Schindler, Stefan; Nielsen, Jonas; Skorin, Teuta; Settele, Josef; Essl, Franz; Gómez-Baggethun, Erik; Brotons, Lluís; Rabitsch, Wolfgang; Schneider, François; Pe’er, Guy

Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth

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dc.contributor.author Otero, Iago
dc.contributor.author Farrell, Katharine N.
dc.contributor.author Pueyo, Salvador
dc.contributor.author Kallis, Giorgos
dc.contributor.author Kehoe, Laura
dc.contributor.author Haberl, Helmut
dc.contributor.author Plutzar, Christoph
dc.contributor.author Hobson, Peter
dc.contributor.author García-Márquez, Jaime
dc.contributor.author Rodríguez-Labajos, Beatriz
dc.contributor.author Martin, Jean-Louis
dc.contributor.author Erb, Karl-Heinz
dc.contributor.author Schindler, Stefan
dc.contributor.author Nielsen, Jonas
dc.contributor.author Skorin, Teuta
dc.contributor.author Settele, Josef
dc.contributor.author Essl, Franz
dc.contributor.author Gómez-Baggethun, Erik
dc.contributor.author Brotons, Lluís
dc.contributor.author Rabitsch, Wolfgang
dc.contributor.author Schneider, François
dc.contributor.author Pe’er, Guy
dc.date.accessioned 2023-05-15T06:43:01Z
dc.date.available 2023-05-15T06:43:01Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.description.abstract Increasing evidence—synthesized in this paper—shows that economic growth contributes to biodiversity loss via greater resource consumption and higher emissions. Nonetheless, a review of international biodiversity and sustainability policies shows that the majority advocate economic growth. Since improvements in resource use efficiency have so far not allowed for absolute global reductions in resource use and pollution, we question the support for economic growth in these policies, where inadequate attention is paid to the question of how growth can be decoupled from biodiversity loss. Drawing on the literature about alternatives to economic growth, we explore this contradiction and suggest ways forward to halt global biodiversity decline. These include policy proposals to move beyond the growth paradigm while enhancing overall prosperity, which can be implemented by combining top-down and bottom-up governance across scales. Finally, we call the attention of researchers and policy makers to two immediate steps: acknowledge the conflict between economic growth and biodiversity conservation in future policies; and explore socioeconomic trajectories beyond economic growth in the next generation of biodiversity scenarios.
dc.description.sponsorship Austrian Science Funds, Grant/Award Number: P29130-G27; Seventh Framework Programme, Grant/Award Numbers: EU BON/308454, ROBIN/283093; sDiv; Austrian Academy of Sciences, Grant/Award Number: LUBIO; Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Grant/Award Number: MDM-2015-0552; Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, Grant/Award Numbers: CLAMOR/797444, COUPLED/765408, MAT_STOCKS/741950
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dc.identifier.citation Otero I, Farrell KN, Pueyo S, Kallis G, Kehoe L, Haberl H, Plutzar C, Hobson P, García-Márquez J, Rodríguez-Labajos B, Martin JL, Erb KH, Schindler S, Nielsen J, Skorin T, Settele J, Essl F, Gómez-Baggethun E, Brotons L, Rabitsch W, Schneider F, Pe’er G. Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth. Conserv Lett. 2020;13(4):e12713. DOI: 10.1111/conl.12713
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12713
dc.identifier.issn 1755-263X
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56809
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Wiley
dc.relation.ispartof Conservation Letters. 2020;13(4):e12713.
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dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/308454
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/283093
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/797444
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/765408
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/741950
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/MDM-2015-0552
dc.rights © 2020 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject.keyword biodiversity conservation
dc.subject.keyword biodiversity loss
dc.subject.keyword biodiversity policy
dc.subject.keyword biodiversity scenarios
dc.subject.keyword decoupling
dc.subject.keyword degrowth
dc.subject.keyword economic growth
dc.subject.keyword postgrowth
dc.subject.keyword sustainability policy
dc.subject.keyword transition
dc.title Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth
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