Knight-Lenihan Stephen
School of Architecture and Planning, Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland, Auckland Mail Centre, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand.
Ambio. 2020 Dec;49(12):2052-2060. doi: 10.1007/s13280-020-01337-5. Epub 2020 Apr 24.
The United Kingdom Government intends to require land development in England to contribute to improving biodiversity values. The basis for this, the offsetting of impacts on biodiversity, stems from and reinforces a neoliberal economic approach, fits with the privatising of conservation, and at a landscape level may improve biodiversity values. However, challenging decision-makers is the current lack of robust evidence that offsetting works, meaning allowing development despite uncertain future biodiversity benefits. Additionally, financial support for local government is declining, making it unclear whether and how effective independent auditing of biodiversity net gain will be.
英国政府打算要求英格兰的土地开发为改善生物多样性价值做出贡献。其依据，即对生物多样性影响的抵消，源于并强化了新自由主义经济方法，符合保护的私有化，并且在景观层面可能会提高生物多样性价值。然而，对决策者来说具有挑战性的是，目前缺乏有力证据表明抵消措施有效，这意味着尽管未来生物多样性效益不确定，但仍允许进行开发。此外，对地方政府的财政支持正在下降，这使得生物多样性净增益的独立审计是否有效以及如何有效尚不清楚。
