Ten Steps to an Effective National Nature Assessment

Carlos Carroll, Reed F. Noss, Lindsay Rosa, Frank W. Davis and Bruce A. Stein

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Abstract: Comprehensive biodiversity assessments play an essential role in strengthening global and national conservation strategies. The recently-announced US National Nature Assessment provides a unique opportunity to bridge the gap between research and conservation practice and communicate the extent of the US biodiversity crisis to the public. Recent global assessments provide a model for synthesizing information on status and trends at multiple levels of biodiversity with data on drivers of biodiversity loss and pathways to their mitigation. The US national assessment can augment such global analyses and avoid the pitfalls encountered by previous US efforts by ensuring policy-relevant design, data accessibility, and inclusivity in both process and product, and by incorporating spatial data relevant to both national and subnational audiences. By considering and incorporating the diverse ways in which society values and benefits from nature, the assessment can foster broad-based support for transformative change in humanity’s relationship to the natural world.

Date: 2022-09-12
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