2022 Volume 18 Issue 3 Pages 124-129
Towards utilization of LCA for facilitation of biodiversity conservation in islands, we conducted review on international biodiversity policy processes such as the Convention on Biological Diversity and SDGs, which are the contexts which need to be considered to implement LCA. Environmental tax for island municipalities in the Okinawa Prefecture is also reviewed to provide a status of regional policy for biodiversity conservation. Furthermore, overview of the trends of biodiversity strategies in Japan and its island municipalities is provided. As examples of the municipal strategies, those of Rebun island, Amami Oshima, and Sado island were reviewed. These review results show that localized and contextualized strategies were elaborated and implemented in the individual municipalities. Although this trend of local biodiversity strategies can be regarded as a promising trend, LCA has still not yet been implemented to assess the status of the strategies and biodiversity. Biodiversity conservation can be facilitated by interdisciplinary approaches. Academic fields related to LCA can play an important role to facilitate biodiversity strategies and promising cycles of conservation based on the scientific evidence.
