Journal article
Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes
Current Biology, Vol.31(19), pp.R1326-R1341
2021
Abstract
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 SheffieldGianluca R Cerullo (Author) - University of CambridgeSusan Chomba (Author) - World Resources InstituteThomas A Worthington (Author) - University of CambridgeAndrew P Balmford (Author) - University of CambridgeRobin L Chazdon (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Tropical Forests & People Research CentreRhett D Harrison (Author) - World Agroforestry
- Publication details
- Current Biology, Vol.31(19), pp.R1326-R1341
- Publisher
- Cell Press
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.cub.2021.08.058
- ISSN
- 1879-0445
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Tropical Forests & People Research Centre; Forest Research Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99582608802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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