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Authors:
Pratzer, Marie
Meyfroidt, Patrick
Antongiovanni, Marina
Aragon, Roxana
Baldi, Germán
Czaplicki Cabezas, Stasiek
de la Vega-Leinert, Cristina A.
Dhyani, Shalini
Diepart, Jean-Christophe
Fernandez, Pedro David
Garnett, Stephen T.
Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio I.
Kalam, Tamanna
Koulgi, Pradeep
le Polain de Waroux, Yann
Marinaro, Sofia
Mastrangelo, Matias
Müller, Daniel
Mueller, Robert
Murali, Ranjini
Nanni, Sofía
Nuñez-Regueiro, Mauricio
Prieto-Torres, David A.
Ratnam, Jayshree
Reddy, Chintala Sudhakar
Ribeiro, Natasha
Röder, Achim
Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo
Roy, Partha Sarathi
Rufin, Philippe
Rufino, Mariana
Sankaran, Mahesh
Torres, Ricardo
Vaidyanathan, Srinivas
Vallejos, Maria
Virah-Sawmy, Malika
Kuemmerle, Tobias
Meyfroidt, Patrick
Antongiovanni, Marina
Aragon, Roxana
Baldi, Germán
Czaplicki Cabezas, Stasiek
de la Vega-Leinert, Cristina A.
Dhyani, Shalini
Diepart, Jean-Christophe
Fernandez, Pedro David
Garnett, Stephen T.
Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio I.
Kalam, Tamanna
Koulgi, Pradeep
le Polain de Waroux, Yann
Marinaro, Sofia
Mastrangelo, Matias
Müller, Daniel
Mueller, Robert
Murali, Ranjini
Nanni, Sofía
Nuñez-Regueiro, Mauricio
Prieto-Torres, David A.
Ratnam, Jayshree
Reddy, Chintala Sudhakar
Ribeiro, Natasha
Röder, Achim
Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo
Roy, Partha Sarathi
Rufin, Philippe
Rufino, Mariana
Sankaran, Mahesh
Torres, Ricardo
Vaidyanathan, Srinivas
Vallejos, Maria
Virah-Sawmy, Malika
Kuemmerle, Tobias
Year of Publication:
2024
Citation:
[Journal:] Global Environmental Change [ISSN:] 1872-9495 [Volume:] 86 [Article No.:] 102849 [Publisher:] Elsevier [Place:] Amsterdam [Year:] 2024 [Pages:] 1-14
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Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract:
Land use is a key driver of the ongoing biodiversity crisis and therefore also a major opportunity for its mitigation. However, appropriately considering the diversity of land-use actors and activities in conservation assessments and planning is challenging. As a result, top-down conservation policy and planning are often criticized for a lack of contextual nuance widely acknowledged to be required for effective and just conservation action. To address these challenges, we have developed a conceptually consistent, scalable land system typology and demonstrated its usefulness for the world's tropical dry woodlands. Our typology identifies key land-use actors and activities that represent typical threats to biodiversity and opportunities for conservation action. We identified land systems in a hierarchical way, with a global level allowing for broad-scale planning and comparative work. Nested within it, a regionalized level provides social-ecological specificity and context. We showcase this regionalization for five hotspots of land-use change and biodiversity loss in dry woodlands in Argentina, Bolivia, Mozambique, India, and Cambodia. Unlike other approaches to present land use, our typology accounts for the complexity of overlapping land uses. This allows, for example, assessment of how conservation measures conflict with other land uses, understanding of the social-ecological co-benefits and trade-offs of area-based conservation, mapping of threats, or targeting area-based and actor-based conservation measures. Moreover, our framework enables cross-regional learning by revealing both commonalities and social-ecological differences, as we demonstrate here for the world's tropical dry woodlands. By bridging the gap between global, top-down, and regional, bottom-up initiatives, our framework enables more contextually appropriate sustainability planning across scales and more targeted and social-ecologically nuanced interventions.
Subjects:
conservation
land-use change
spatial planning
archetypes
regional case studies
tropical dry forests and savannas
land-use change
spatial planning
archetypes
regional case studies
tropical dry forests and savannas
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