Document: JAN-3-611-205

The origins of the Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: Debates, discussions, and visions.

LUBCHENCO, J.*

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331 USA 1

Abstract:
In 1988, when the ESA initiated the effort to define research priorities for ecology in the 1990s, we were responding to a number of factors, including the rapid deterioration of the environment and the growing recognition that tough decisions about research priorities were needed in the funding environment of the foreseeable future. This presentation will discuss some of those forces, the ESA⿿s debates and discussions about the need and directions of priority setting, and the lessons learned in both the original formulation and the ensuing decade of research and policy-making.

Keywords: SBI

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This abstract is being presented at: 8:10 AM in session:
Symposium # 8: Ten Years of the Sustainable Biosphere Initiative.