# Horizon scanning for future issues affecting invasive species management: The first phase of the Alien Futures project

Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Helen Bayliss, Thomas Boivin, Franz Essl, Laura Harrison, Julia Touza

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Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz, Helen Bayliss, Thomas Boivin, Franz Essl, Laura Harrison, et al.. Horizon scanning for future issues affecting invasive species management: The first phase of the Alien Futures project. Neobiota 2016: 9. International Conference on Biological Invasions Biological Invasions: Interactions with Environmental Change, Sep 2016, Vianden, Luxembourg. 258 p., 2016, NEOBIOTA 2016 Biological Invasions: Interactions with Environmental Change. hal-01602385

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# Book of Abstracts

Christian Ries & Yves Krippel (eds)

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## NEOBIOTA 2016

### Biological Invasions: Interactions with Environmental Change

9th International Conference on Biological Invasions

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Vianden, Luxembourg

14 - 16 September 2016

www.neobiota2016.org

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Fonds National de la
Recherche Luxembourg

Supported by the Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg
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# Horizon scanning for future issues affecting invasive species management: Results from the first phase of the Alien Futures project

Katharina Dehnen-Schmutz¹, Helen Bayliss², Thomas Boivin³, Franz Essl⁴, Laura Harrison⁵, Julia Touza⁵

¹Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, United Kingdom, Coventry, United Kingdom

²to be confirmed, Town, United Kingdom

³INRA, Avignon, France

⁴Umweltbundesamt, Vienna, Austria

⁵University of York, York, United Kingdom

Horizon scanning, the systematic examination of future potential threats and opportunities, provides a tool to identify key issues that are beginning to emerge as well as developments that might be important for invasive species management in the future.

The Alien Futures project is a horizon scanning activity looking to identify issues (environmental, social or technological) that may affect invasive species management into the next 20 to 50 years. The project consists of three phases: (1) a global online survey to collect topics submitted by practitioners, researchers, and policy makers, (2) a process of ranking submitted topics through online voting by participants of the first phase and additional stakeholders, and (3) the sharing and exploring of topics through the project webpage (www.alienfutures.org), workshops and publications. The survey and voting processes are conducted in English, Spanish and French to allow for a wide participation. The project distinguishes topics at the global and working level of participants. Here, we present the results of the first phase, which started in November 2015, and call for participants to vote on the topics collected. Further project outcomes presented include information on participants' professional background, location and taxonomic expertise as well as habitats and land-use systems they are working with.

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Keywords: horizon scanning, invasive species management, global survey