Toward Biodiversity Conservation, Sustainable Use and Benefit Sharing in Latin America and the Caribbean – BIOLAC
BIOLAC focuses on the interactions between biodiversity and human well-being in the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC), with a particular emphasis on the Caribbean Sea. It aims to assess the role of biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem goods and services to the different stakeholder groups of the LAC, the integration of biodiversity into the region’s peculiar economic structures,…
The BIOLAC project was financed by the European Commission, within the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship scheme of the FP7 People Programme. Dr. Sonja Teelucksingh, from Trinidad & Tobago, was the Marie Curie Fellow. She developed the project under the supervision of Dr. Paulo A.L.D. Nunes.
BIOLAC focused on the interactions between biodiversity and human well-being in the Latin American and Caribbean region (LAC), with a particular emphasis on the Caribbean Sea.
It aimed to assess the role of biodiversity in the provision of ecosystem goods and services to the different stakeholder groups of the LAC, the integration of biodiversity into the region’s peculiar economic structures, the development of economic incentives and payment mechanisms towards regional biodiversity conservation, sustainable use and benefit-sharing, and the production of a generic template for integrated ecological-economic stakeholder-based biodiversity research in the region.