Research
Leon's present research focus is on managing the biodiversity impacts of development. This includes issues such as achieving 'no net loss' or 'net gain' for biodiversity and ecosystem services, designing out-of-kind offsets, policy approaches to compensation for biodiversity impacts in different contexts, biodiversity metrics for natural capital accounting, strengthening the information base for risk assessment and mitigation design, integrated landscape planning, baselines, additionality and leakage in biodiversity offsets, the business case for biodiversity and ecosystem services management, and corporate contributions to remaining within safe planetary boundaries.
Publications
Bennun, L., Regan, E.C., Bird, J. et al. 2017. The Value of the IUCN Red List for Business Decision‐Making. Conservation Letters. DOI:10.1111/conl.12353
Ekstrom, J., Bennun, L. & Mitchell, R. 2015. A cross-sector guide for implementing the Mitigation Hierarchy. London: Cross-sector Biodiversity Initiative.
Pilgrim, J. D., & Bennun, L. 2014. Will biodiversity offsets save or sink protected areas? Conservation Letters 7(5), 423-424
McCarthy D.P., Donald P.F., Scharlemann J.P., Buchanan G.M., Balmford A., Green J.M., Bennun L.A., Burgess N.D. et al. 2012. Financial costs of meeting global biodiversity conservation targets: current spending and unmet needs. Science 338: 946–949.
Rands, M.R.W., Adams, W.M., Bennun, L., Butchart, S.H.M. et al. 2010. Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010. Science 329: 1298–1303
