The loss of biodiversity conservation in EU research programmes: Thematic shifts in biodiversity wording in the environment themes of EU research programmes FP7 and Horizon 2020 |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Leibniz Institute of Freshwater ecology, Müggelseedamm 301, 12587 Berlin, Germany;2. Department of Biology–Chemistry–Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Takustraβe 3, 14195 Berlin Germany;3. CNR-IBAF (National Research Council, Institute of Agro-environmental and Forest Biology), via Salaria km 29.300, 00015 Monterotondo, Italy;4. Department of Science, University of Roma Tre, viale G. Marconi 446, 00146 Rome, Italy;5. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany;1. School of Plant Science and National Centre for Future Forest Industries, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 55, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia;2. University of Utah, Department of Biology, 257 South 1400 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, United States;3. Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW 2751, Australia;4. Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, Scotland AB15 8QH, UK;5. James Hutton Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, Scotland AB158QH, UK;1. Key Laboratory of Wetland Ecology and Environment, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130102, China;2. Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA;1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, UFPA-MPEG, Avenida Perimetral 1901, CEP 66077-830 Belém, PA, Brazil;2. Coordenação de Ciências da Terra e Ecologia, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, Avenida Perimetral 1901, CEP 66077-830 Belém, PA, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | Society has been seeking ways to express biodiversity's value to stimulate its protection. Economic valuation of ecosystem services has had limited success to motivate biodiversity protection and reaching the EU 2020 biodiversity strategy targets is in danger of failure. The expression of biodiversity's value in policy documents thus becomes a topic of discussion, because it greatly influences the ways policy makers think about environmental problems. We present an analysis of the word use related to biodiversity conservation versus ecosystem services in the environment themes of the FP7 and Horizon 2020 research work programs of the European Commission in the period of 2007–2014, and the projects accepted under these themes. We conclude first that biodiversity was lost as a topic in the transition from FP7 to Horizon 2020, accompanied by a three-quarters loss of biodiversity topics in the projects accepted under these research work programs. Moreover, the use of ‘ecosystem services’ was 1.5 times higher at the end of that period compared to the beginning in the research work programs, to the detriment of the use of ‘sustainability’ and ‘conservation’ which halved during that same period. In the light of international commitments to biodiversity conservation, the focus toward ecosystem services and away from conservation is of great concern. |
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| Keywords: | Biodiversity conservation Economic valuation Ecosystem services Environmental policy European Commission |
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