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Record W2953444541 · doi:10.4324/9780429197383-5

The Convention on Biological Diversity

2019· book-chapter· en· W2953444541 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Fiona McConnell

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicInternational Environmental Law and Policies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsConvention on Biological DiversityDiversity (politics)ConventionGeographyPolitical scienceBiologyBiodiversityEcologyLaw

Abstract

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The year 1987 produced two important landmarks in the bringing together of the environment and development issues. First came the publication of the Brundtland Commission’s report, Our Common Future , which set out the common concerns, challenges and endeavours which would be involved in achieving sustainable development. Secondly, there was the Montreal Protocol, perhaps the first international agreement to adopt concrete measures for tackling a global environmental problem, with provisions for regular review and for taking account of the special needs of developing countries. Principle 21 of the Stockholm Declaration was accepted verbatim, as were the Convention on Biological Diversity&s;s Principle, although it caused the UK and some others considerable anxiety. Article 20 on financial resources was painfully agreed, line by line, leaving only Article 21 on the financial mechanism. In 1994 the UK government published its Biodiversity Strategy setting out the framework for a range of conservation actions in Britain.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.076

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0060.016
Scholarly communication0.0110.005
Open science0.0020.009
Research integrity0.0070.017
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.010

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.201
Teacher spread0.180 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2019
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