Project Externally funded
| Title | Biodiversity Conservation, Global Change and Uncertainties: Reconciling Biodiversity Persistence and Human Development upon Dynamic Environments |
| Participants | Diogo Alagador, Miguel Araújo, Raúl Brás, Jorge O Cerdeira (Principal Investigator), Natália Melo, Dora Neto, Hugh Possingham, Niels Strange |
| Summary | Biodiversity conservation is a crisis discipline: it urges to find measures to reverse the effects of intense threats acting over biodiversity; it conflicts with dominant and competing socioeconomic activities; and it typically runs under tight budgets. Additionally, ecological and socioeconomic environments are tailored by dynamic processes turning analysis and decisions on conservation actions very complex. RECONCILE aims at addressing major and actual conservation problems with the ultimate goal of ensuring long-term persistence of species reconciling conservation and socioeconomy. To this end RECONCILE gathers experts from different areas such as ecology, conservation, mathematics, econometrics, computer and communication sciences. The ultimate goal is to provide conceptually-sound and efficient decision support-tools (ie. software) to assist optimized, long-term area prioritization in three wide-range foremost problems under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). |