Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

David P Edwards; Gianluca R Cerullo; Susan Chomba; Thomas A Worthington; Andrew P Balmford; Robin L Chazdon; Rhett D Harrison

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.058

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Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

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Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

David P Edwards, Gianluca R Cerullo, Susan Chomba, Thomas A Worthington, Andrew P Balmford, Robin L Chazdon and Rhett D Harrison

Current Biology, Vol.31(19), pp.R1326-R1341

2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.058

PMID: 34637743

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The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration offers immense potential to return hundreds of millions of hectares of degraded tropical landscapes to functioning ecosystems. Well-designed restoration can tackle multiple Sustainable Development Goals, driving synergistic benefits for biodiversity, ecosystem services, agricultural and timber production, and local livelihoods at large spatial scales. To deliver on this potential, restoration efforts must recognise and reduce trade-offs among objectives, and minimize competition with food production and conservation of native ecosystems. Restoration initiatives also need to confront core environmental challenges of climate change and inappropriate planting in savanna biomes, be robustly funded over the long term, and address issues of poor governance, inadequate land tenure, and socio-cultural disparities in benefits and costs. Tackling these issues using the landscape approach is vital to realising the potential for restoration to break the cycle of land degradation and poverty, and deliver on its core environmental and social promises.

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Title: Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes
Authors: David P Edwards (Author) - University of Sheffield
Gianluca R Cerullo (Author) - University of Cambridge
Susan Chomba (Author) - World Resources Institute
Thomas A Worthington (Author) - University of Cambridge
Andrew P Balmford (Author) - University of Cambridge
Robin L Chazdon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests and People Research Centre
Rhett D Harrison (Author) - World Agroforestry
Publication details: Current Biology, Vol.31(19), pp.R1326-R1341
Publisher: Cell Press
Date published: 2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.058
ISSN: 1879-0445
PMID: 34637743
Organisation Unit: Tropical Forests and People Research Centre; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Forest Research Institute
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99582608802621
Output Type: Journal article

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