Abstract
1. Biological invasions have substantial and rising social-ecological impacts
threatening human livelihoods and communities and hampering progress towards a just and equitable world.
2. Currently, biological invasions are not adequately recognised and included in the UN Agenda 2030.
3. Using a literature review conducted in Web of Science, we highlight the bias
in available literature of biological invasions related to the UN Agenda 2030
and its Sustainable Development Goals. We find abundant scientific literature
towards environmental and biodiversity related sustainability targets while other
especially provisioning targets are less well represented.
4. Subsequently, we discuss the risks of neglecting biological invasions within
sustainable development and how invasive alien species can have changing and
adverse effects through time counteracting the intended benefits at the time of
introduction.
5. Finally, we provide key recommendations for action at the international scale
to ensure that biological invasions are adequately considered in sustainable
development. Those recommendations include (1) acknowledgement of
biological invasions as a key threat to sustainable development, (2) a call
for stronger multilateral exchange under the umbrella of an adequately
financed coordinating body and (3) appropriate implementation and resource
provisioning for international monitoring, data infrastructure, data exchange
and use of adequate indicators of biological invasions to streamline decision
making based on a solid evidence base.
threatening human livelihoods and communities and hampering progress towards a just and equitable world.
2. Currently, biological invasions are not adequately recognised and included in the UN Agenda 2030.
3. Using a literature review conducted in Web of Science, we highlight the bias
in available literature of biological invasions related to the UN Agenda 2030
and its Sustainable Development Goals. We find abundant scientific literature
towards environmental and biodiversity related sustainability targets while other
especially provisioning targets are less well represented.
4. Subsequently, we discuss the risks of neglecting biological invasions within
sustainable development and how invasive alien species can have changing and
adverse effects through time counteracting the intended benefits at the time of
introduction.
5. Finally, we provide key recommendations for action at the international scale
to ensure that biological invasions are adequately considered in sustainable
development. Those recommendations include (1) acknowledgement of
biological invasions as a key threat to sustainable development, (2) a call
for stronger multilateral exchange under the umbrella of an adequately
financed coordinating body and (3) appropriate implementation and resource
provisioning for international monitoring, data infrastructure, data exchange
and use of adequate indicators of biological invasions to streamline decision
making based on a solid evidence base.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 1804-1811 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | People and Nature |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 2024 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106003 Biodiversity research
Keywords
- biological invasions
- impacts
- policy
- sustainable development
- temporal lag effects