Publications by authors named "Frans P de Vries"
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- - Plastic pollution is a major global issue that requires collective action, with ongoing international talks aimed at creating a global treaty to address it.
- - Key insights suggest that past regulations have focused more on environmental damage than human health, and the success of banning harmful pollutants often relies on having suitable alternatives available.
- - These findings highlight the importance of understanding environmental impacts while also encouraging more research on human health risks, ultimately emphasizing that finding substitutes can help reduce plastic use and pollution effectively.
Policy tools are needed that allow reconciliation of human development pressures with conservation priorities. Biodiversity offsetting can be used to compensate for ecological losses caused by development activities. Landowners can choose to undertake conservation actions, including habitat restoration, to generate biodiversity offsets.
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