- Title
- Role of national regime ideology for predicting biodiversity outcomes
- Creator
- Jones, Jacob; Griffin, Andrea S.; Agbola, Frank W.; Hayward, Matt W.
- Relation
- Conservation Biology Vol. 39, Issue 1, no. e14314
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14314
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2025
- Description
- The rapid decline of global biodiversity has engendered renewed debate about the social, economic, and political factors contributing to it. Specifically, there is little understanding of the role that political ideology within a country (e.g., nationalism, conservatism, socialism) plays in determining biodiversity outcomes. We used negative binomial generalized linear models to investigate the importance of national regime ideology in predicting threatened animal species and protected area establishment compared with other factors that affect biodiversity outcomes, such as gross domestic product, inequality, and democracy. For threatened animals, the model with the highest Akaike weight suggested adverse biodiversity outcomes arose from larger gross domestic product (β = 0.120, p < 0.001). However, nationalism (β = 0.371, p < 0.01) and socialism (β = 0.293, p < 0.05) were also significantly associated with increased proportions of threatened species. For protected areas, the model with the highest Akaike weight suggested increases in democracy (β = 0.880, p < 0.001) led to a rise in relative protected area estate. Conservative regime ideology was also associated with greater protected area estate, although this did not increase the weight of evidence in support of the best models. These findings highlight the relevance of political ideology for predicting biodiversity outcomes at a national scale and illustrate opportunities to tailor policies and advocacy to promote biodiversity conservation more effectively. By targeting appropriate messaging and political advocacy, conservationists can improve the likelihood that politicians and their nations will participate in positive biodiversity actions.
- Subject
- conservation communications; conservatism; deomocracy; government; nationalism; protected areas; SDG 15; Sustainable Development Goal
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1518134
- Identifier
- uon:57239
- Identifier
- ISSN:0888-8892
- Rights
- © 2024 The Author(s). Conservation Biology published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
- Language
- eng
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