scholarly journals Spatial variation in biodiversity loss across China under multiple environmental stressors

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (47) ◽  
pp. eabd0952
Author(s):  
Yonglong Lu ◽  
Yifu Yang ◽  
Bin Sun ◽  
Jingjing Yuan ◽  
Minzhao Yu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Multiple Stressors ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Environmental Stressors ◽  
Climate Zones ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
Development Goals

Biodiversity is essential for the maintenance of ecosystem health and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals. However, the drivers of biodiversity loss and the spatial variation in their impacts are poorly understood. Here, we explore the spatial-temporal distributions of threatened and declining (“biodiversity-loss”) species and find that these species are affected by multiple stressors, with climate and human activities being the fundamental shaping forces. There has been large spatial variation in the distribution of threatened species over China’s provinces, with the biodiversity of Gansu, Guangdong, Hainan, and Shaanxi provinces severely reduced. With increasing urbanization and industrialization, the expansion of construction and worsening pollution has led to habitat retreat or degradation, and high proportions of amphibians, mammals, and reptiles are threatened. Because distributions of species and stressors vary widely across different climate zones and geographical areas, specific policies and measures are needed for preventing biodiversity loss in different regions.

scholarly journals Impact of Entrepreneurship Activity Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-183
Author(s):  
Ivona Huđek ◽  
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Barbara Bradač Hojnik
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Policies And Measures ◽  
National Priority ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Sustainable development considers the development that achieves the present economic goals, without obstructing the future development in a sense of satisfying the needs of society and endangering the environment. Recently, the entrepreneurship phenomenon has been widely recognized as an important path towards sustainable development, positively contributing to the development of society. Thus, in the paper, the empirical evidence on linkages between entrepreneurial activity indicators and social development goals is provided. To examine the linkages, the data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and Sustainable Development Goals Index were used. The empirical results suggest that entrepreneurship represents an important factor for fostering sustainability, particularly in opportunity-driven and innovative entrepreneurial activities. The results show, that both of them have a positive impact on sustainable development, while the necessity-driven entrepreneurial activity negatively affects sustainable development. This could be explained by the fact that necessity entrepreneurs are not likely to become the entrepreneurs to implement a promising business opportunity, but rather to earn an income. To achieve the sustainable development goals as well as entrepreneurship should become the national priority by introducing new policies and measures, that is, making the conditions, through which entrepreneurship could achieve positive contributions to the development of the society.

5. Sustainability and preservation

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Robin Attfield
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Problem ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Brundtland Report

Sustainable development was defined in the 1987 Brundtland Report as development that ‘meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs’. It envisaged social, ecological, and economic needs, favouring not just leaving future generations with options for satisfying their needs, but also introducing policies that would make the meeting of those needs more feasible. ‘Sustainability and preservation’ discusses the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000 and the Sustainable Development Goals set in 2015. It explains why biodiversity loss is a major global problem, and why its preservation warrants inclusion in these goals. The forms and limits of preservation are also considered.

scholarly journals Make nature's role visible to achieve the SDGs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Hole ◽  
Pamela Collins ◽  
Anteneh Tesfaw ◽  
Lina Barrera ◽  
Michael B. Mascia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecosystem Health ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

Central to the premise of the Sustainable Development Goals is the concept that the environment underpins the economic and social dimensions of development, yet the language and structure of the SDG framework are largely blind to these environment-development relationships beyond the "nature" Goals (14 and 15). As a result, ecosystem health continues to decline, development milestones lag, and investments are suboptimally allocated. Here, we highlight and conceptually map nature's role across the entire framework and make suggestions for leveraging synergies and limiting undesired impacts.

Insects as feed and the Sustainable Development Goals

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dicke
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Waste Streams ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Development Goals

One of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations is to achieve food security and improved nutrition. To be successful in feeding the rapidly growing human population, we need innovative changes in food production. The challenge of safeguarding food security is considerable because many potential solutions are incompatible with solutions for other challenges that we face, including climate change mitigation and halting the biodiversity loss. To produce animal proteins, we currently rely to a large extent on feedstuff for livestock that is either suitable as food for humans (e.g. cereals and soymeal) or on a resource that is becoming scarce due to overfishing of the oceans (fishmeal). To set a first step towards a circular approach to feed production, insects provide interesting opportunities as various species can be reared on organic waste streams, including waste streams of food production and manure. This paper discusses the opportunities for using insects as a valuable feed source for the production of livestock. Insects do not only provide excellent opportunities to replace fishmeal and soymeal, but may also have important additional benefits. These include positive effects on livestock health and welfare with opportunities to reduce antibiotic use in livestock production. This is discussed in the integrated context of five of the sustainable development goals. Recent entrepreneurial and regulatory developments underline the opportunities for employing insects as feed. In this development an important indirect effect may be that consumers get acquainted with insects as a valuable and sustainable component of the food chain. This may result in the acceleration of adopting insects as food and thus of producing mini-livestock as a sustainable source of animal protein.

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