Biodiversity Offsets and No Net Loss: Introduction, Problem Statement, and Research Questions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Marianne Darbi
Keyword(s):  
Problem Statement ◽  
No Net Loss ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets ◽  
Research Questions

scholarly journals Biodiversity Offset Program Design and Implementation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (24) ◽  
pp. 6903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Grimm ◽  
Johann Köppel
Keyword(s):  
Program Design ◽  
Landscape Scale ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
No Net Loss ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Mitigation Hierarchy ◽  
Balance Development ◽  
Biodiversity Offset

Biodiversity offsets are applied in many countries to compensate for impacts on the environment, but research on regulatory frameworks and implementation enabling effective offsets is lacking. This paper reviews research on biodiversity offsets, providing a framework for the analysis of program design (no net loss goal, uncertainty and ratios, equivalence and accounting, site selection, landscape-scale mitigation planning, timing) and implementation (compliance, adherence to the mitigation hierarchy, leakage and trade-offs, oversight, transparency and monitoring). Some more challenging aspects concern the proper metrics and accounting allowing for program evaluation, as well as the consideration of trade-offs when regulations focus only on the biodiversity aspect of ecosystems. Results can be used to assess offsets anywhere and support the creation of programs that balance development and conservation.

scholarly journals Local people's preferences for biodiversity offsets to achieve ‘no net loss’ for economic developments

2019 ◽  
Vol 236 ◽  
pp. 162-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria F. Griffiths ◽  
Oleg Sheremet ◽  
Nick Hanley ◽  
Julia Baker ◽  
Joseph W. Bull ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
No Net Loss ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets ◽  
Economic Developments

scholarly journals Mining and biodiversity offsets: A transparent and science-based approach to measure “no-net-loss”

2014 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 61-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malika Virah-Sawmy ◽  
Johannes Ebeling ◽  
Roslyn Taplin
Keyword(s):  
No Net Loss ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets

scholarly journals Biodiversity offsets: adding to the conservation estate, or ‘no net loss’?

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susie Brownlie ◽  
Mark Botha
Keyword(s):  
No Net Loss ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets

Biodiversity Offsets and the Challenge of Achieving No Net Loss

2013 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1254-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
TOBY A. GARDNER ◽  
AMREI VON HASE ◽  
SUSIE BROWNLIE ◽  
JONATHAN M. M. EKSTROM ◽  
JOHN D. PILGRIM ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
No Net Loss ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets

scholarly journals Modeling Alternative Approaches to the Biodiversity Offsetting of Urban Expansion in the Grenoble Area (France): What Is the Role of Spatial Scales in ‘No Net Loss’ of Wetland Area and Function?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 5951
Author(s):  
Anne-Charlotte Vaissière ◽  
Fabien Quétier ◽  
Adeline Bierry ◽  
Clémence Vannier ◽  
Florence Baptist ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Wetland Area ◽  
No Net Loss ◽  
Biodiversity Offsets ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Project Model ◽  
Implementation Models ◽  
And Function ◽  
Spatially Explicit Modeling

It is increasingly common for developers to be asked to manage the impacts of their projects on biodiversity by restoring other degraded habitats that are ecologically equivalent to those that are impacted. These measures, called biodiversity offsets, generally aim to achieve ‘no net loss’ (NNL) of biodiversity. Using spatially-explicit modeling, different options were compared in terms of their performance in offsetting the impacts on wetlands of the planned urban expansion around Grenoble (France). Two implementation models for offsetting were tested: (a) the widespread bespoke permittee-led restoration project model, resulting in a patchwork of restored wetlands, and (b) recently-established aggregated and anticipated “banking” approaches whereby larger sets of adjacent parcels offset the impacts of several projects. Two ecological equivalence methods for sizing offsets were simulated: (a) the historically-prevalent area-based approach and (b) recently introduced approaches whereby offsets are sized to ensure NNL of wetland functions. Simulations showed that a mix of functional methods with minimum area requirements was more likely to achieve NNL of wetland area and function across the study area and within each subwatershed. Our methodology can be used to test the carrying capacity of a landscape to support urban expansion and its associated offsetting in order to formulate more sustainable development plans.

scholarly journals “Data Hegemony”: Reflections for the Application and Development Direction of Metaverse Technology in Urban Design based on Digital

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 52-61
Author(s):  
Qinyu Feng ◽  
Renjie Cai
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Problem Statement ◽  
Virtual Reality Technology ◽  
Suburban Communities ◽  
Critical Design ◽  
Data Control ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Waking Up

This paper is based on the phenomenon of Tittytainment and big data control. It discusses the ways in which working youths live and work in their large suburban communities in Beijing as well as their leisure and entertainment activities. Then develops a problem statement and research questions. In addition, the project explores this reality phenomenon dialectically through the analysis and speculation of the new virtual reality technology “Metaverse.” Based on a critical design approach, the phenomenon is explored through a detailed description and examination of reality, before critically suggesting the possibility of future social control by big data companies through the “metaverse” space. Furthermore, this paper alerts to the neoliberalism that dominates globalization through anti-utopian expressions, waking up young people who are compromised by big data control and addicted to Tittytainment.

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