Global biodiversity targets have far-reaching implications for nature conservation worldwide. Scenarios and models hold unfulfilled promise for ensuring such targets are well founded and implemented; here, we review how they can and should inform the Aichi Targets of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity and their reformulation. They offer two clear benefits: providing a scientific basis for the wording and quantitative elements of targets; and identifying synergies and trade-offs by accounting for interactions between targets and the actions needed to achieve them. The capacity of scenarios and models to address complexity makes them invaluable for developing meaningful targets and policy, and improving conservation outcomes.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	biodiversity, conservation targets, indicators, modelling, scenarios, environmental change, conservation policy
Research Division:	Mathematical Sciences
Research Group:	Applied mathematics
Research Field:	Dynamical systems in applications
Objective Division:	Environmental Management
Objective Group:	Marine systems and management
Objective Field:	Rehabilitation or conservation of marine environments
UTAS Author:	Fulton, EA (Dr Elizabeth Fulton)
UTAS Author:	Brooks, TM (Dr Thomas Brooks)
ID Code:	131652
Year Published:	2019
Web of Science® Times Cited:	48
Deposited By:	Sustainable Marine Research Collaboration
Deposited On:	2019-03-28
Last Modified:	2020-09-11
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