An assessment of the potential novel future threats and opportunities to UK biodiversity: a horizon scanning approach

对英国生物多样性未来潜在新威胁和机遇的评估：地平线扫描方法

• 批准号: NE/F523350/1
• 负责人: William Sutherland
• 金额: $ 1.59万
• 依托单位: University of Cambridge
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FF523350%2F1
• 关键词: assessment; potential; novel; future; threats

Ecology has been poor at identifying and researching novel issues. For example the ecological research on GM herbicide tolerant crops were carried out after the product had been on the market (and withdrawn). This is inefficient and gives the science of ecology a poor reputation. Our proposal is to use a novel collaborative technique to identify issues that could potentially affect UK biodiversity.We have planned a collaboration of the leading ecological and conservation groups in the UK, leading academics and science journalists in order to identify the most important and under researched issues that have the potential to be of importance for UK biodiversity in the next 50 years but have not been of importance in the past. We expect this horizon scanning exercise to be published in a leading ecological journal. This work should be of considerable importance is helping set the policy agendas for a range of organisations, including NERC's Living with Environmental Change programme. It is also likely to be influential in determining the research trajectories of academics.

生态学在识别和研究新问题方面一直很差。例如，对耐除草剂转基因作物的生态研究是在该产品投放市场（和撤回）之后进行的。这是效率低下的，也给生态科学带来了不好的声誉。我们的建议是使用一种新的合作技术来确定可能影响英国生物多样性的问题。我们计划与英国领先的生态和保护团体合作，领先的学者和科学记者，以确定最重要的和研究不足的问题，有可能是重要的英国生物多样性在未来50年，但没有重要的过去我们希望这一地平线扫描练习将发表在一个领先的生态杂志。这项工作应该是相当重要的是帮助制定政策议程的一系列组织，包括NERC的生活与环境变化方案。它也可能对决定学术界的研究轨迹产生影响。