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An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world's tropical dry woodlands
Pratzer, Marie; Meyfroidt, Patrick; Antongiovanni, Marina et al.
2024In Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions, 86, p. 102849
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Keywords :
Archetypes; Conservation; Land-use change; Regional case studies; Spatial planning; Tropical dry forests and savannas; Global and Planetary Change; Geography, Planning and Development; Ecology; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Abstract :
[en] 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.
Disciplines :
Human geography & demography
Author, co-author :
Pratzer, Marie ;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; Integrative Research Institute for Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Meyfroidt, Patrick ;  Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium ; Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique F.R.S.-FNRS, Brussels, Belgium
Antongiovanni, Marina;  Departamento de Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil ; Maloca Estudos Socioambientais, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Aragon, Roxana;  Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), CONICET, Argentina
Baldi, Germán;  Grupo de Estudios Ambientales, IMASL-UNSL/CONICET, San Luis, Argentina
Czaplicki Cabezas, Stasiek;  Revista Nomadas, Pampa de la Isla, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
de la Vega-Leinert, Cristina A.;  Institute of Geography and Geology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
Dhyani, Shalini;  CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), Nagpur, India
Diepart, Jean-Christophe  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Modélisation et développement ; The School For Field Studies, Siem Reap, Cambodia
Fernandez, Pedro David;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; Instituto de Investigación Animal del Chaco Semiárido, INTA, Tucumán, Argentina
Garnett, Stephen T.;  Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, Australia
Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio I.;  Instituto de Fisiología y Recursos Genéticos Vegetales (IFRGV), CIAP-INTA, Argentina ; Unidad de Estudios Agropecuarios (UDEA), CONICET, Argentina
Kalam, Tamanna ;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Koulgi, Pradeep ;  Independent Researcher, Bangalore, India
le Polain de Waroux, Yann;  Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada ; Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Marinaro, Sofia;  Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), CONICET, Argentina ; Centro de Estudios y Aplicaciones del Ciclo de Indagación (CEyACI, Fac. De Ciencias Naturales, UNT), Argentina
Mastrangelo, Matias ;  Grupo de Estudio de Agroecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales (GEAP), Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CONICET, Argentina
Mueller, Daniel ;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; Integrative Research Institute for Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany
Mueller, Robert;  Bridge Builderes UG, Germany
Murali, Ranjini ;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; The Snow Leopard Trust, Seattle, United States
Nanni, Sofía;  Instituto de Ecología Regional (IER), CONICET, Argentina ; Facultad de Cs. Naturales e IML, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina
Nuñez-Regueiro, Mauricio;  The Nature Conservancy, Argentina ; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, IBIGEO, Argentina
Prieto-Torres, David A. ;  Laboratorio de Biodiversidad y Cambio Global (LABIOCG), Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Tlalnepantla, Estado de México, Mexico
Ratnam, Jayshree ;  Wildlife Biology and Conservation Program, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India
Reddy, Chintala Sudhakar;  Forest Biodiversity and Ecology Division, National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, Hyderabad, India
Ribeiro, Natasha;  Department of Forest Engineering, Faculty of Agronomy and Forest Engineering, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
Röder, Achim;  FB VI – Environmental Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Trier University, Trier, Germany
Romero-Muñoz, Alfredo ;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Roy, Partha Sarathi;  Sustainable Landscape Restoration, World Resources Institute India, New Delhi, India
Rufin, Philippe ;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Rufino, Mariana ;  Livestock Systems, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany
Sankaran, Mahesh;  National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, GKVK Campus, Bangalore, India
Torres, Ricardo;  Laboratorio de Biogeografía Aplicada, Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal, CONICET – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina ; Museo de Zoología, FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
Vaidyanathan, Srinivas ;  Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning, India
Vallejos, Maria ;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; Departamento de Métodos Cuantitativos y Sistemas de Información, Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina ; IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Virah-Sawmy, Malika;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Kuemmerle, Tobias ;  Geography Department, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany ; Integrative Research Institute for Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Language :
English
Title :
An actor-centered, scalable land system typology for addressing biodiversity loss in the world's tropical dry woodlands
Publication date :
May 2024
Journal title :
Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions
ISSN :
0959-3780
Publisher :
Elsevier Ltd
Volume :
86
Pages :
102849
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
European Projects :
H2020 - 101001239 - SystemShift - Shifting to a Land Systems Paradigm in Conservation
Funders :
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
EU - European Union
ERC - European Research Council
Funding text :
This work was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement 101001239 SYSTEMSHIFT, http://hu.berlin/SystemShift). This work contributes to the Global Land Programme (https://glp.earth). We thank the many experts contributing to the typology.This work was supported by the European Research Council under the European Union\u2019s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement 101001239 SYSTEMSHIFT, http://hu.berlin/SystemShift ). This work contributes to the Global Land Programme ( https://glp.earth ). We thank the many experts contributing to the typology.
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