TY - JOUR
KW - Land-use change
KW - Conservation
KW - Archetypes
KW - Regional case studies
KW - Spatial planning
KW - Tropical dry forests and savannas
AU - Marie Pratzer
AU - Patrick Meyfroidt
AU - Marina Antongiovanni
AU - Roxana Aragon
AU - Germán Baldi
AU - Stasiek Cabezas
AU - Cristina de la Vega-Leinert
AU - Shalini Dhyani
AU - Jean-Christophe Diepart
AU - Pedro Fernandez
AU - Stephen Garnett
AU - Gregorio Pizarro
AU - Tamanna Kalam
AU - Pradeep Koulgi
AU - Yann de Waroux
AU - Sofia Marinaro
AU - Matias Mastrangelo
AU - Daniel Mueller
AU - Robert Mueller
AU - Ranjini Murali
AU - Sofía Nanni
AU - Mauricio Nuñez-Regueiro
AU - David Prieto-Torres
AU - Jayshree Ratnam
AU - Chintala Reddy
AU - Natasha Ribeiro
AU - Achim Röder
AU - Alfredo Romero-Muñoz
AU - Partha Roy
AU - Philippe Rufin
AU - Mariana Rufino
AU - Mahesh Sankaran
AU - Ricardo Torres
AU - Srinivas Vaidyanathan
AU - Maria Vallejos
AU - Malika Virah-Sawmy
AU - Tobias Kuemmerle
AB - 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.
BT - Global Environmental Change
DA - 05/2024
DO - 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102849
DP - ScienceDirect
J2 - Global Environmental Change
N2 - 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.
PY - 2024
SN - 0959-3780
SP - 102849
T2 - Global Environmental Change
TI - An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world’s tropical dry woodlands
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378024000530
VL - 86
Y2 - 2024/05/01/05:06:13
ER -