Biovalue Project

despite international and european policies in place to halt biodiversity loss, the effect of multilevel, and multisector, direct and indirect drivers of change contribute to continuing negative trends. the biovalue proposal was designed upon the fact that persistent land use and land cover changes have a major effect on biodiversity loss; and on the assumption that a transformative change is needed on paradigms, goals and values shaping current spatial dynamics by a mix of sectoral policies. such transformative change is in line with the ipbes(2020) report and the eu biodiversity strategy 2030 calling for co-responsible engagement of all relevant actors, in a whole-of society approach to biodiversity. to address this call, we will explore the transformative potential of spatial planning, as the arena for action and the territorial expression of multilevel policies, strategic to invert current trends of biodiversity loss. the objective of biovalue is to safeguard and increase biodivers