Title: GISP announce the launch of a database on invasive species policy

Developed by Dr Peter Stoett, Associate Professor and Chair of Department of Political Science at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, and his team; with sponsorship provided by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Peter and his team recognised the vital role of policy co-ordination in tackling invasive species. Since international efforts to co-ordinate policy formulation and to measure outcomes must be based on adequate information, they have developed a database to provide awareness of the policy designs in place in many of the countries under threat from invasive species, from Albania to Zimbabwe. While there are several databases devoted to the identification and description of invasive species, there are few databases which explicate the policies that have been developed to combat them.

This database examines the following questions:

  1. What government legislature, programs and projects relating to IAS have been developed, completed or in progress?
  2. What governmental department, agencies or ministries does the responsibility to manage invasive species fall under?
  3. How are countries cooperating with each other to deal with IAS?

View Database on Invasive Species Policy here

GISP welcome feedback from stakeholders and if you wish to contribute or update any of the data provided, please direct questions/comments to either Dr Peter Stoett on pstoett@alcor.concordia.ca or Dr Sarah Simons, Executive Director, GISP on mailto:s.simons@gisp.org



From http://www.gisp.org, see original source.



Article: WeedsNews99 (permalink)
Date: 19 August 2009; 10:53:44 am Australian Eastern Standard Time

Author Name: David Low
Author ID: adminDavid