The application of IUCN red list criteria at regional levels

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The World Conservation Union (IUCN) under the auspices of Species Survival Commission (SSC) started a process of revising the Red List to improve the objectivity and repeatability of the assessment process and to develop quantitative criteria that assign species to categories based on their relative extinction risk. The IUCN is keen on developing such listings, which are linked to actions at the national level that provide global listing and action process with valuable information.

Author: Mace, Georgina M., Gardenfors, Ulf, Hilton-Taylor, Craig, Rodriguez, Jon Paul
Strategy & planning, Services information, Planning, Usage, Services, Taxonomy (Biology), Company business planning, World Conservation Union, Phenetics

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A postscript to Orr's commandments

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A postscript to the Ten Commandments proposed by David W.Orr is presented. It is suggested that if public do not observe the basic rules for conducting the political life of modern democratic society, the public may lose their right for everything which is valued and hence it is important to reiterate what these rules are to ourselves.

Author: Ehrenfeld, David
United States, Government domestic functions, Environmental policy

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Making consistent IUCN classification under uncertainty

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The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has defined a set of categories for conservation status and decision rules based on thresholds of various parameters. A specific guideline is proposed to deal with uncertainty, which may be categorized as semantic, measurement error, and natural variability.

Author: Burgman, Mark A., Akcakaya, H. Resit, Ferson, Scott, Keith David A., Mace, Georgina M., Todd Charles R.
Conservationists

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Subjects list: Conservation of natural resources, Natural resource conservation, Laws, regulations and rules, Government regulation
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