A5085118370- Coastal and Marine Management
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Forest Management and Policy
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Climate Change and Geoengineering
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Marine animal studies overview
- Polar Research and Ecology
The University of Queensland
2014-2024
Environmental Earth Sciences
2017-2022
ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions
2018
Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research
2017
Efforts to conserve biodiversity comprise a patchwork of international goals, national-level plans, and local interventions that, overall, are failing. We discuss the potential utility applying mitigation hierarchy, widely used during economic development activities, all negative human impacts on biodiversity. Evaluating losses gains through hierarchy could help prioritize consideration conservation goals drive empirical evaluation investments explicit counterfactual trends ecosystem...
Abstract To meet global restoration targets, action is needed at a large scale, and high level of ambition. Coastal marine may be hindered by an array factors, including governance: in particular, the cost time associated with obtaining permits. We interviewed small group practitioners Australia to further explore this permitting issue. Our study revealed deeper problem, legal process driving outcomes. Some proponents are turning away from sites highest potential, instead choosing based on...
Cities are investing billions of dollars in climate change adaptation to combat the effects sea‐level rise, temperature extremes, increasingly intense storm events, flooding and water scarcity. Natural ecosystems have enormous potential contribute city resilience, so, actions that rely on this approach could sustain considerable co‐benefits for biodiversity. In paper we identify prevalence key themes human response biodiversity conservation outcomes cities. We then quantify area impact...
Biodiversity compensation policy programs such as offsetting are increasingly being expanded to the marine realm. We reviewed literature on biodiversity offsets and related compensatory determine where offset policies occur. also identified most important differences between terrestrial systems that likely have implications for how is conducted. found 77 nations had enabled use of in environment. Two emerged: (1) biophysical differences, greater connectivity, lower likelihood restoration...
Abstract In many countries, complex environmental problems such as biodiversity decline are regulated at the national level by a disparate range of laws and nonstatutory policy instruments variously described terms including plans, strategies, guidelines, statements intent, and/or incentives. Such often grouped together conservation policymakers scientists under umbrella term “policy.” However, from legal perspective, there critical differences between these so‐called instruments. this...
Abstract This article considers how “rolling covenants” (i.e., covenants on land title that can operate in a “rolling” geographic area to keep pace with sea‐level rise) be used permit productive use of the short term, while ensuring shift over time allow for coastal ecosystem migration medium long term. We Australia as case study, and through analysis legislation series semistructured interviews, we demonstrate title‐based give legal effect covenant” arrangements where is subject existing...
Biodiversity offsets aim to counterbalance the residual impacts of development on species and ecosystems. Guidance documents explicitly recommend that biodiversity offset actions be located close location impact because higher potential for similar ecological conditions, but allowing greater spatial flexibility has been proposed. We examined circumstances under which distant from could more likely achieve no net loss or provide better outcomes than area. applied a graphical model migratory...
Journal Article Policy solutions needed for the future of coral reefs Get access Nicole Shumway, Shumway Centre Futures, University Queensland, St. Lucia, AustraliaCentre Biodiversity and Conservation Science, Australia E-mail: n.shumway@uq.edu.au https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3582-6841 Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rose Foster, Foster AustraliaT.C. Beirne School Law, Brian Head, Head Pedro Fidelman BioScience, biad092,...
As human activities increasingly threaten biodiversity [ 1 , 2 ], areas devoid of intense impacts are vital refugia 3 ]. These wilderness contain high genetic diversity, unique functional traits, and endemic species 4 5 6 7 ]; maintain levels ecological evolutionary connectivity 8 9 10 may be well placed to resist recover from the climate change 11 12 13 On land, rapid declines in ] have led urgent calls for its protection 14 In contrast, little is known about extent marine Here we...
Summary Global biodiversity continues to decline at a steady rate, especially in Australia where 10% of the land mammal population has become extinct since European settlement. The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act ( EPBC ) list threatened species is Australia's version IUCN red‐list; however, not all fit easily within guidelines criteria for listing. Recently, high‐profile Senate inquiry was used bring about listing koala, Phascolarctos cinereus , although it had...