Mission

The mission of bioSUSTAINABILITY encompasses those of DIVERSITAS.

In order to encourage more sustainable use of biodiversity, bioSUSTAINABILITY develops new knowledge to guide policy and decision-making. To achieve this, activities and initiatives are directed toward establishing a more complete understanding of the ecological, economic and social aspects involved.

Building on initiatives to measure and describe biodiversity (bioDISCOVERY) and to better understand the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (ecoSERVICES), bioSUSTAINABILITY ultimately seeks to determine how humans can be motivated to conserve biodiversity and to use it in sustainable ways.

Addressing these issues will require integration of the best basic and applied research in the ecological, environmental and social sciences. A major goal of bioSUSTAINABILITY is to establish a community of like-minded researchers from across these disciplines in order to develop effective solutions to these problems.

bioSUSTAINABILITY carries out its mission by:

▪ developing common international frameworks for collaborative research.
▪ forming research networks to tackle focused scientific questions.
▪ promoting standardised methodologies.
▪ facilitating resource allocation, and
▪ undertaking analysis, synthesis and integration activities on particular biodiversity themes.