Knowledge drives action 24 August 2012 | News story The ground-
breaking work of IUCN’s six commissions is highlighted in the
latest issue of the journal S.A.P.I.EN.S. Set up as “networks of
expert volunteers entrusted to develop and advance the
institutional knowledge, experience and objectives of IUCN”, the
Commissions enable IUCN to link to cutting-edge science to
advance knowledge and learning. SAPIENS (Surveys and
Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society), is a peer-
reviewed, open access, multidisciplinary journal focused on
integrating knowledge to promote sustainability research. This
special issue shows how knowledge drives action. It explores how
the knowledge generated by the Species Survival Commission (SSC)
is helping fight the global biodiversity crisis through the
examples of amphibians worldwide and mammals in South-East Asia;
how the debate in the Commission on Environmental Law on the so-
called “non-regression principle” is pushing the boundaries of
law and policy; and how the Commissi