Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

The Moore Center for Science at Conservation International is one of the world’s premier conservation research institutes, producing and applying groundbreaking and policy-relevant research to help decision-makers protect nature. To date, Conservation International has published more than 1,100 peer-reviewed articles, many in leading journals including Science, Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

On average, each of our scientific papers is cited more than 45 times by other scholars — a rate exceeding that of any other U.S. conservation organization as well as leading universities.

Here is an archive of our most recent research.

Make nature's role visible to achieve the SDGs

David G. Hole, Pamela Collins, Anteneh Tesfaw, Lina Barrera, Michael B. Mascia, Will R. Turner

Global Sustainability, 5

April 22, 2022

Implicit in the UN's Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Agenda is the notion that environmental sustainability is intertwined with, and underpins, the 17 Goals. Yet the language of the Goals, and their Targets and indicators is blind to the myriad ways in which nature supports people's health and wealth – which we argue represents a key impediment to progress. Using examples of nature–human wellbeing linkages, we assess the language of all 169 Targets to identify urgent research, policy, and action needed to spotlight and leverage nature's foundational role, to help enable truly sustainable development for all.

CITATION

Hole, D. G., Collins, P., Tesfaw, A., Barrera, L., Mascia, M. B., & Turner, W. R. (2022). Make nature’s role visible to achieve the SDGs. Global Sustainability, 5. https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2022.5