Insitut français de la biodiversité

Cahier de l'IFB October 2007 : "Selecting indicators for the management of biodiversity"

In 2010, nations around the world will have to assess the state of their progress in preserving biodiversity, within the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity adopted in Rio in 1992. To do so, they will need to make use of monitoring mechanisms. The indicators of biodiversity, as multi-purpose instruments appropriate for addressing hybrid questions (that is, those which concern both the scientific and the political arenas), have rapidly emerged as the best means for monitoring this progress.

This book has two goals :
- to report briefly on the status of the existing indicators and to see in what way they enable us to better describe, understand and manage the dynamics which underlie biodiversity ;
- to address new methods for the construction of indicators of biodiversity and new criteria for evaluation of the indicators thus produced.

• Cahier de l'IFB October 2007 : "Selecting indicators for the management of biodiversity" (IFB_Biodiversity_Indicators_Eng.pdf (4,88 MB))