Tools for building
biodiversity offerings and biodiversity projects
A biodiversity offering is a profitable product or
service that supports a species-preserving project.
Business is both the main driver of the planet's current catastrophic loss
of biodiversity and the key to stemming it. One way to address this
challenge is for firms to
launch profitable offerings that harness market forces to
fund projects that drive biodiversity enhancement. This business model
minimizes the costs of such projects while maximizing their positive impacts
on biodiversity.
The gulf between customer interactions with such offerings and the
conservation of a particular species
is bridged with technological tools.
The first tool builds a profitable and biodiversity-enhancing
business venture via stochastic, agent-based models of business
networks that
span species-consuming countries and species-hosting countries. These models
are optimized for profitability through the use of optimization
algorithms that run on high performance computers. Customer
loyalty to the offering is maintained via a second tool that creates
biodiversity dashboards. These web-based dashboards display
in real-time, monitoring data on the offering's impact on a targeted species.
This allows customers to see for themselves how the offering is positively
impacting that species. Projects are tailored to
the political context of a particular biodiversity threat. This political
context is comprehended by applying stream-parsing
algorithms to social media commentary on the targeted political-ecological
system.
Guidance and tools:
A step-by-step guide for developing a biodiversity offering and associated
project is here.
All software for simulator construction and execution can be downloaded
from Rhino EMT.