#NA-02-18 IUCN Red List of Ecosystems: The Global Standard for Assessing Risks to Ecosystems
About Course
Deakin UniversityDescription
Learn how the Red List of Ecosystems is helping to sustain global biodiversity
Nature is under threat around the world. Understanding where ecosystems are at greatest risk allows us to act to sustain species and ecosystems.
The IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Ecosystems is a rigorous standardised assessment method that supports decision making while generating strategies for policy and management practice.
The Red List of Ecosystems is the global standard for ecosystem risk assessment, used by governments, NGOs, scientists and practitioners to sustain biodiversity worldwide.
Who will you learn with?
Emily Nicholson
Prof Emily Nicholson is a conservation scientist at Deakin University. Her research focuses on ecosystem risk assessment and biodiversity policy. She co-leads the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems
Who developed the course?
Deakin University
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
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Established: 1974
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Location: Melbourne, Australia
What Will I Learn?
- Describe the purpose of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems
- Assess the benefits of the Red List of Ecosystems approach to ecosystem conservation and management
- Explore the process of completing ecosystem assessments
- Identify the characteristics of ecosystems
- Explore the challenges of defining ecosystems
- Identify threats to ecosystems and how to measure them
- Classify Red List of Ecosystems outcomes and categories of risk
- Assess the Red List of Ecosystems in the landscape of conservation policies and tools
Topics for this course
Introduction and overview
Welcome00:02:26
Learning online with Deakin00:02:49
Global reach, local impacts00:01:38
The IUCN Red Lists
Scientific foundations and purpose
Overview of an ecosystem assessment
In this course, I learned how to design models, how to interpret and use the results to make informed decisions, and how to use models to evaluate energy and environmental policies. It was very rewarding.
Many species in the world today are at risk of extinction, so understanding the greatest risks to ecosystems can help us take action to preserve species and ecosystems. It's a great course. It's worth learning.
In this course I learned what the ecosystem Red list is and how it helps maintain global biodiversity. It's a good lesson.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- People interested in sustainability of the world’s ecosystems.
- Practitioners who need to understand the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems approach, its purpose and its place relative to other conservation tools.
- Decision makers who will value the scientific basis and global authority of Red List of Ecosystems assessments.
- People interested in cutting-edge approaches to sustainable conservation.
- People who seek to undertake their own ecosystem assessment using the Red List of Ecosystems method
- The course was created for practitioners who need to understand the Red List of Ecosystems processes and decision-makers who will value the scientific basis and global authority of Red List of Ecosystems assessments.
- The amount of time it takes you to complete this course will vary depending on your level of interest and experience of ecosystems.