Frank Hawkins

Sep 13, 2024 | americanthinker.com | Frank Hawkins

The state of our society is a far cry from life in the 20th century, and even much of the first two decades of the 21st century. What major forces are driving much of the dramatic changes? I count no fewer than eight. Power and Incompetence of the Deep State The enormous, growing overreach of government to control ordinary citizens and their legislators is the monster of a bloated federal establishment.

Jun 4, 2024 | journals.plos.org | Frank Hawkins

Loading metrics Open Access Essay Essays articulate a specific perspective on a topic of broad interest to scientists. See all article types» ? This is an uncorrected proof. Citation: Hawkins F (2024) How will better data (and better use of data) enable us to save the planet? PLoS Biol 22(6): e3002689. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002689Academic Editor: Leah R. Gerber, Arizona State University, UNITED STATESPublished: June 4, 2024Copyright: © 2024 Frank Hawkins.

May 22, 2024 | conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Louise Mair |Marwa Elnahass Elnahass |Erwei Xiang |Frank Hawkins

1 INTRODUCTION Economic activities directly and indirectly drive global biodiversity loss. In the context of international trade and complex supply chains, financial decisions (whether made by businesses, investors, governments, or consumers) can have global extinction risk footprints. There is therefore a pressing need to better understand how financial decision makers can reduce the drivers of biodiversity loss and take advantage of opportunities to restore nature.

Sep 12, 2023 | conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Frank Hawkins |Craig Beatty |Thomas Brooks |IUCN Gland Switzerland

Ensuring that companies can assess and manage their impacts on biodiversity will be crucial to solving the current biodiversity crisis, and regulatory and public pressure to disclose these impacts is increasing. Top-down intactness metrics (e.g. Mean Species Abundance) can be valuable for generating high-level or first-tier assessments of impact risk, but do not provide sufficient precision or guidance for companies, regulators or third-party assessors.