The neglected importance of managing biological invasions for sustainable development

Lenzner, Bernd; García‐Rodríguez, Adrián; Colling, Gilles; Dullinger, Stefan; Fugger, Julia; Glaser, Michael; Hennenfeind, Jennifer H.; Kaplan, Ekin; Liu, Daijun; Omer, Ali; Pauchard, Aníbal; Roy, Helen E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6050-679X; Schernhammer, Tobias; Schertler, Anna; Stoett, Peter; Tedeschi, Lisa; Vorstenbosch, Tom; Wessely, Johannes; Essl, Franz. 2024 The neglected importance of managing biological invasions for sustainable development. People and Nature. 8, pp. 10.1002/pan3.10712

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Abstract/Summary

1. Biological invasions have substantial and rising social-ecological impacts threatening human livelihoods and communities and hampering progress towards a just and equitable world. 2. Currently, biological invasions are not adequately recognised and included in the UN Agenda 2030. 3. Using a literature review conducted in Web of Science, we highlight the bias in available literature of biological invasions related to the UN Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals. We find abundant scientific literature towards environmental and biodiversity related sustainability targets while other especially provisioning targets are less well represented. 4. Subsequently, we discuss the risks of neglecting biological invasions within sustainable development and how invasive alien species can have changing and adverse effects through time counteracting the intended benefits at the time of introduction. 5. Finally, we provide key recommendations for action at the international scale to ensure that biological invasions are adequately considered in sustainable development. Those recommendations include (1) acknowledgement of biological invasions as a key threat to sustainable development, (2) a call for stronger multilateral exchange under the umbrella of an adequately financed coordinating body and (3) appropriate implementation and resource provisioning for international monitoring, data infrastructure, data exchange and use of adequate indicators of biological invasions to streamline decision making based on a solid evidence base.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1002/pan3.10712
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	2575-8314
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
Additional Keywords:	biological invasions, impacts, policy, sustainable development, temporal lag effects
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment Data and Information
Related URLs:	Dataset
Date made live:	29 Aug 2024 09:34 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/537938

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