Track Chairs
- Rob Wallis, Federation University Australia, AUSTRALIA.
r.wallis@federation.edu.au - Mazlin Bin Mokhtar, United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Asia Headquarters (UN SDSN ASIA) at Sunway University, mazlin@sunway.edu.my
Goals and Objectives and Areas of the Track
Healthy, resilient ecosystems and their services are usually considered essential but often neglected requirements for successful sustainable development. Conservation of biodiversity will help provide essential ecosystem services, as well as resources for societal development, but in the urgent rush to promote economic development, the accompanying threats to biodiversity and ecological integrity are often ignored where short-term “development” undermine the longer term prospects for sustainable development. How then to ensure societies can develop sustainably at the same time as terrestrial ecosystems are successfully managed to conserve biodiversity? This track thus, aims to investigate how threats to ecological integrity, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems can be managed to simultaneously support sustainable development in a variety of contexts.
This track will focus on research that demonstrates strategies to conserve terrestrial biodiversity that supports the sustainable development of human communities. Papers are invited that
- Demonstrate how loss of biodiversity can adversely affect sustainable development
- Demonstrate strategies for successful conservation of biodiversity on land that can support sustainable development of communities
- Highlight innovative strategies for conservation, especially in developing countries where there are threats to biodiversity conservation
Length and content of the proposed abstract to the track
Each proposed abstract (in connection to one of the areas pointed out above) within 300 and 500 words
- shall be best organized (without headlines) along usual structures (e.g. intro/method/findings or results/ discussion/conclusions)
- does not need to, but can include references
- shall provide in a final section
a. to which SDG(s) and SDG-target(s) their proposed abstract especially relate to (e.g. “SDG+Target: 14.1.”).
b. a brief indication how the proposed contribution relates to the topic of the Conference (“Half-way through Agenda 2030: Assessing the 5Ps of SDGs (people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership)”.
Abstracts which do not outline points 3.a.) AND 3.b.) might be considered less relevant in the Review.
Potential publication channels
With regard to potential publications, depending on the number and quality of contributions we will explore options for a dedicated special issue in a relevant scientific journal.