Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20.

DIVERSITAS, the international programme on biodiversity science, is releasing a strategic vision presenting scientific challenges for the next decade of research on biodiversity and ecosystem services: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science for a Sustainable Planet". This new vision is a response of the biodiversity and ecosystem services scientific community to the accelerating loss of the components of biodiversity, as well as to changes in the biodiversity science-policy landscape (establishment of a Biodiversity Observing Network - GEO BON, of an Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - IPBES, of the new Future Earth initiative; and release of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020). This article presents the vision and its core scientific challenges.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

• Publication date

  2012-02-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.COSUST.2012.01.007PMID 25104977PMCID PMC4121961
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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