Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice
Abstract In 2014, the International Union for Conservation of Nature adopted the Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) criteria as the global standard for assessing risks to terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. Five years on, it is timely to ask what impact this new initiative has had on ecosystem...
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| author | Lucie M. Bland Emily Nicholson Rebecca M. Miller Angela Andrade Aurélien Carré Andres Etter José Rafael Ferrer‐Paris Bernal Herrera Tytti Kontula Arild Lindgaard Patricio Pliscoff Andrew Skowno Marcos Valderrábano Irene Zager David A. Keith |
| author_facet | Lucie M. Bland Emily Nicholson Rebecca M. Miller Angela Andrade Aurélien Carré Andres Etter José Rafael Ferrer‐Paris Bernal Herrera Tytti Kontula Arild Lindgaard Patricio Pliscoff Andrew Skowno Marcos Valderrábano Irene Zager David A. Keith |
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| description | Abstract In 2014, the International Union for Conservation of Nature adopted the Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) criteria as the global standard for assessing risks to terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. Five years on, it is timely to ask what impact this new initiative has had on ecosystem management and conservation. In this policy perspective, we use an impact evaluation framework to distinguish the outputs, outcomes, and impacts of the RLE since its inception. To date, 2,821 ecosystems in 100 countries have been assessed following the RLE protocol. Systematic assessments are complete or underway in 21 countries and two continental regions (the Americas and Europe). Countries with established ecosystem policy infrastructure have already used the RLE to inform legislation, land‐use planning, protected area management, monitoring and reporting, and ecosystem management. Impacts are still emerging due to varying pace and commitment to implementation across different countries. In the future, RLE indices based on systematic assessments have high potential to inform global biodiversity reporting. Expanding the coverage of RLE assessments, building capacity and political will to undertake them, and establishing stronger policy instruments to manage red‐listed ecosystems will be key to maximizing conservation impacts over the coming decades. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e7b473b136d84431b2b12e3527bcc72f2022-12-22T01:30:31ZengWileyConservation Letters1755-263X2019-09-01125n/an/a10.1111/conl.12666Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practiceLucie M. Bland0Emily Nicholson1Rebecca M. Miller2Angela Andrade3Aurélien Carré4Andres Etter5José Rafael Ferrer‐Paris6Bernal Herrera7Tytti Kontula8Arild Lindgaard9Patricio Pliscoff10Andrew Skowno11Marcos Valderrábano12Irene Zager13David A. Keith14School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology Deakin University Burwood Victoria AustraliaSchool of Life and Environmental Sciences, Centre for Integrative Ecology Deakin University Burwood Victoria AustraliaIUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Gland SwitzerlandIUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Gland SwitzerlandFrench Committee for UICN Paris FranceFacultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá ColombiaCentro de Estudios Botánicos y Agroforestales Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas Maracaibo VenezuelaIUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Gland SwitzerlandFinnish Environment Institute Helsinki FinlandNorwegian Biodiversity Information Centre (Artsdatabanken) Trondheim NorwayInstituto de Geografía y Departamento de Ecología Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago ChileSouth African National Biodiversity Institute Kirstenbosch Research Centre Cape Town South AfricaIUCN Centre for Mediterranean Cooperation Málaga SpainIUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Gland SwitzerlandIUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management Gland SwitzerlandAbstract In 2014, the International Union for Conservation of Nature adopted the Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) criteria as the global standard for assessing risks to terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. Five years on, it is timely to ask what impact this new initiative has had on ecosystem management and conservation. In this policy perspective, we use an impact evaluation framework to distinguish the outputs, outcomes, and impacts of the RLE since its inception. To date, 2,821 ecosystems in 100 countries have been assessed following the RLE protocol. Systematic assessments are complete or underway in 21 countries and two continental regions (the Americas and Europe). Countries with established ecosystem policy infrastructure have already used the RLE to inform legislation, land‐use planning, protected area management, monitoring and reporting, and ecosystem management. Impacts are still emerging due to varying pace and commitment to implementation across different countries. In the future, RLE indices based on systematic assessments have high potential to inform global biodiversity reporting. Expanding the coverage of RLE assessments, building capacity and political will to undertake them, and establishing stronger policy instruments to manage red‐listed ecosystems will be key to maximizing conservation impacts over the coming decades.https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12666conservation practiceecosystemimpactIUCN Red List of Ecosystemsmonitoringpolicy |
| spellingShingle | Lucie M. Bland Emily Nicholson Rebecca M. Miller Angela Andrade Aurélien Carré Andres Etter José Rafael Ferrer‐Paris Bernal Herrera Tytti Kontula Arild Lindgaard Patricio Pliscoff Andrew Skowno Marcos Valderrábano Irene Zager David A. Keith Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice Conservation Letters conservation practice ecosystem impact IUCN Red List of Ecosystems monitoring policy |
| title | Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice |
| title_full | Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice |
| title_fullStr | Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice |
| title_short | Impacts of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems on conservation policy and practice |
| title_sort | impacts of the iucn red list of ecosystems on conservation policy and practice |
| topic | conservation practice ecosystem impact IUCN Red List of Ecosystems monitoring policy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12666 |
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