Represent Goal 15 (sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and biodiversity loss)

[pbuttigieg]

Represent Goal 15

This will be very ENVO-heavy, but will also need content for classes like "management" and "international agreements" from ontologies in the policy domain.

[pbuttigieg]

Many classes discussed in #16. Non-redundant ones will be added below:

Target	Key[words, phrases]	Target ontologies	Notes
15.1	conservation
15.1	restoration
15.1	sustainable use
15.1	terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems	ENVO	Must ensure that all relevant classes are in ENVO
15.1	ecosystem services	ENVO, SDGIO	common theme, processes will exist in ENVO and def of ecosystem service will live in SDGIO
15.1	obligations under international agreements	SDGIO	must be surrendered to a policy ontology
15.2	implementation	?	this should probably be unpacked - implementation can be an umbrella term for many processes
15.2	sustainable management	SDGIO	"management" is the key here
15.2	forests, deforestation, afforestation, reforestation
15.2	degraded forest,	PATO, ENVO	the quality "degraded" must be created
15.2	remediation, restoration	ENVO, SDGIO	for degraded environments
15.3	desertification
15.3	(degraded) land, soil	ENVO, PATO
15.3	(land degraded by) drought, flood	ENVO, SDGIO	ENVO has land, flood, and drought, but no class like "land degraded by X". This could be post-composed in SDGIO.
15.3	land-degradation neutral world	SDGIO	this needs unpacking.
15.4	mountain ecosystems	ENVO	many classes already present, an exhaustive list (from the UN perspective) would be useful here.
15.4	capacity to provide benefits	SDGIO	Capacity has an official definition in several glossaries.
15.4	essential for sustainable development	SDGIO	if these essential entities are defined somewhere, we could represent them as necessary participants in a sustainable development process. Why this is so strongly stated for mountain ecosystems is unclear.
15.5	(degradation of) natural habitats	SDGIO, ENVO	these are probably environments, but ENVO's habitat branch will soon be able to handle 'habitats'. A list of environments that are considered natural should be referenced.
15.5	biodiversity loss	ENVO, PCO	the biodiversity of a given environment should be catalogued either as an index or using 'habitats' which feature ecological populations.
15.5	protection (of species)	SDGIO	as a process
15.5	extinction (of species)	ENVO, PCO, SDGIO	as a process
15.6	fair and equitable	SDGIO	This must be surrendered to a legal or policy ontology. Also, where is this defined?
15.6	genetic resources	ENVO, PCO, SDGIO, GO	@rlwalls2008 we can represent ecological communities in biomes or related environment types, this will require GO or similar to be brought in to represent genetic diversity of communities.
15.6	appropriate access governed by international agreements	SDGIO	to be surrendered to a policy ontology
15.7	species poaching
15.7	non-human species trafficking
15.7	protected species
15.7	supply and demand	SDGIO	to be surrendered to an economic ontology
15.7	illegal wildlife product	SDGIO, ENVO	to be surrendered to an economic ontology
15.8	invasive alien species	PCO, ENVO, SDGIO	this can leverage the community-determined ecosystems in ENVO and some sort of species inventory, however, some expression of endemism is needed to allow something to be considered 'invasive'
15.8	impact of species on ecosystem	NCBITaxon, ENVO, SDGIO?
15.8	"control or eradicate the priority species"	NCBITaxon	I assume this means the priority invasive species? Where would we find lists of these? We'll need 'ecological population eradication process' and 'ecological population control process' @rlwalls2008 - perhaps these should live in PCO?
15.9	ecosystem and biodiversity value	ENVO, SDGIO	requires interface with an economic ontology and SEEA
15.9	national and local planning	SDGIO, gazetteer
15.9	development process	SDGIO
15.9	poverty reduction process	SDGIO
15.9	process strategy	SDGIO, OBI	some sort of planned process
15.9	accounts	SDGIO	Surrender to economic ontology and link to SEEA
15.a	[financial] resource mobilisation	SDGIO	surrender to policy and economics ontology
15.a	sustainable management of forests	SDGIO, ENVO
15.a	"use biodiversity and ecosystems"	SDGIO, ENVO, PCO?	Linked closely to ecosystem services, perhaps ESs are sufficient to represent this.
15.b	incentive
15.b	developing country
15.c	'global support '	SDGIO
15.c	capacity of local communities	SDGIO, PCO, gazetteers	@rlwalls2008 local communities can be expressed with a combination of geolocation and PCO
15.c	sustainable livelihood	SDGIO	this must be linked to the activities of the employers, when appropriate and "sustainable" qualified.

[cmungall]

biodiversity loss would be a process - ENVO or PCO?

[pbuttigieg]

biodiversity loss would be a process - ENVO or PCO?

Probably ENVO, as we usually speak of the biodiversity of some instance of an ENVO class (or even a gazetteer entry). That being said, the richness (rather than the diversity: we don't have abundance data to calculate evenness) of a PCO ecological community can be used too.

[ramonawalls]

I agree that the classes you listed for PCO are relevant there.