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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

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

Titel

Upscaling tropical restoration to deliver environmental benefits and socially equitable outcomes

Ist Teil von

• Current biology, 2021-10, Vol.31 (19), p.R1326-R1341

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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. Edwards et al. outline a strategy to restore degraded tropical landscapes. They argue that success will depend on accounting for a range of factors, including trade-offs between objectives, the economic needs of local populations, and the impact of climate change.