@article{57,
  keywords = {Land-use change, Conservation, Archetypes, Regional case studies, Spatial planning, Tropical dry forests and savannas},
  author = {Marie Pratzer and Patrick Meyfroidt and Marina Antongiovanni and Roxana Aragon and Germán Baldi and Stasiek Cabezas and Cristina de la Vega-Leinert and Shalini Dhyani and Jean-Christophe Diepart and Pedro Fernandez and Stephen Garnett and Gregorio Pizarro and Tamanna Kalam and Pradeep Koulgi and Yann de Waroux and Sofia Marinaro and Matias Mastrangelo and Daniel Mueller and Robert Mueller and Ranjini Murali and Sofía Nanni and Mauricio Nuñez-Regueiro and David Prieto-Torres and Jayshree Ratnam and Chintala Reddy and Natasha Ribeiro and Achim Röder and Alfredo Romero-Muñoz and Partha Roy and Philippe Rufin and Mariana Rufino and Mahesh Sankaran and Ricardo Torres and Srinivas Vaidyanathan and Maria Vallejos and Malika Virah-Sawmy and Tobias Kuemmerle},
  title = {An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands},
  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.},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Global Environmental Change},
  volume = {86},
  pages = {102849+},
  month = {05/2024},
  isbn = {0959-3780},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378024000530},
  doi = {10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102849},
}