03808nas a2200649   4500000000100000008004100001260001200042653002000054653001700074653001500091653002600106653002100132653003800153100001800191700002200209700002500231700001800256700001800274700002000292700003200312700001900344700002800363700002000391700002000411700002100431700001800452700001900470700001900489700001900508700002300527700001900550700001900569700001900588700001700607700002900624700002400653700002000677700001900697700002000716700001700736700002600753700001500779700001900794700001900813700002000832700001900852700002600871700001900897700002300916700002100939245012600960856007201086300001201158490000701170520196701177020001403144       2024                            d  c05/202410aLand-use change10aConservation10aArchetypes10aRegional case studies10aSpatial planning10aTropical dry forests and savannas1 aMarie Pratzer1 aPatrick Meyfroidt1 aMarina Antongiovanni1 aRoxana Aragon1 aGermán Baldi1 aStasiek Cabezas1 aCristina de la Vega-Leinert1 aShalini Dhyani1 aJean-Christophe Diepart1 aPedro Fernandez1 aStephen Garnett1 aGregorio Pizarro1 aTamanna Kalam1 aPradeep Koulgi1 aYann de Waroux1 aSofia Marinaro1 aMatias Mastrangelo1 aDaniel Mueller1 aRobert Mueller1 aRanjini Murali1 aSofía Nanni1 aMauricio Nuñez-Regueiro1 aDavid Prieto-Torres1 aJayshree Ratnam1 aChintala Reddy1 aNatasha Ribeiro1 aAchim Röder1 aAlfredo Romero-Muñoz1 aPartha Roy1 aPhilippe Rufin1 aMariana Rufino1 aMahesh Sankaran1 aRicardo Torres1 aSrinivas Vaidyanathan1 aMaria Vallejos1 aMalika Virah-Sawmy1 aTobias Kuemmerle00aAn actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands  uhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378024000530  a102849+0 v863 aLand 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.  a0959-3780