Balancing land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy DOI Creative Commons
Cameryn Brock, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Tim Beringer

et al.

Research Square (Research Square), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: July 30, 2024

Abstract Demand for land is increasing due to mounting energy and development needs. Growing demand food coupled with climate policy commitments calling reduced greenhouse gas emissions will result in more being used agricultural renewable development. At the same time, conserving biodiversity nature’s contributions people (NCP) imperative achieving international climate, sustainable development, goals. Meeting these interconnected objectives requires efficient equitable allocation of different sectors. We present a flexible, multiple-objective framework using integer linear programming strategically allocate under change mitigate threats NCP while supporting The application at planetary scale shows that if agriculture are planned without consideration NCP, future demands (6.2 million km2 globally) could impact nearly 1 high-priority areas nature, habitats 440 threatened vertebrate species, 21 Gt vulnerable carbon stocks. Multi-sector planning can potential conflict, reducing number species exposed by 15% amount loss 19%. If proceeds coordinated planning, there insufficient available achieve conservation targets. Our findings underscore need ensure critical biodiversity, storage, conserved; reduce energy; meet remaining efficiently through spatial targeting; coordinate use across sectors intentionally, such as multi-functional landscapes.

Language: Английский

Made in Australia, used in Asia: Public acceptance and the cable controversy of Australia-Asia PowerLink, a remote solar megaproject DOI Creative Commons
Kerstin K. Zander, Stephen T. Garnett

Energy Research & Social Science, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 125, P. 104079 - 104079

Published: April 17, 2025

Language: Английский

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Even after armed conflict, the environmental quality of Indigenous Peoples' lands in biodiversity hotspots surpasses that of non-Indigenous lands DOI Creative Commons
Madeline Beattie, John E. Fa, Ian Leiper

et al.

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 286, P. 110288 - 110288

Published: Sept. 19, 2023

Indigenous Peoples lands cover over a fifth of the world's land surface and support high levels biodiversity. However, for centuries have suffered from deprivation, often dispossession, even cultural genocide, process continuing today in some regions. Biodiversity hotspots, global areas endemicity that are heavily threatened by habitat loss other human activities also affected conflict. Although covering only 2.4 % surface, 80 armed conflicts occurred biodiversity hotspots between 1950 2000. Given many overlap with Peoples' lands, we asked whether co-occurrence ecological integrity, measured using Intact Forest Landscapes as units which still contain significant biological diversity, Human Footprint proxy anthropogenic impacts, increased persistence where there has been Our results show that, within conflict was more likely to occur on than non-Indigenous yet environmental damage impacts were both lower. We suggest able moderate ecosystem degradation processes before, during, after because their strong ties determination defend rights territories. argue recognition efforts protect is not socially just but essential meeting now pressing post-2020 conservation targets.

Language: Английский

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9
Rates of tree cover loss in key biodiversity areas on Indigenous Peoples’ lands DOI Creative Commons
Ashley T. Simkins, Paul F. Donald, Alison E. Beresford

et al.

Conservation Biology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 38(3)

Published: Oct. 9, 2023

Indigenous Peoples' lands (IPL) cover at least 38 million km

Language: Английский

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Mapping global land conversion pressure to support conservation planning DOI Creative Commons
James R. Oakleaf, Christina M. Kennedy, Nicholas H. Wolff

et al.

Scientific Data, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 11(1)

Published: July 30, 2024

Proactively identifying where land conversion might occur is critical to targeted and effective conservation planning. Previous efforts map future habitat loss have largely focused on forested systems been limited in their consideration of drivers loss. We developed a 1-km resolution, global pressure from multiple drivers, referred as the index (CPI). The CPI combines past rates anthropogenic change, measured by temporal human modification maps, with suitability maps for potential expansion large-scale development. thus offers new way measure cumulative gradient opposed categorical cover change. find that nearly 23% across 200 countries relatively high pressure, potentially impacting over 460 million ha intact natural lands. illustrate how this information can be used identify areas proactive avoid ensure national commitments under Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Paris Agreement Climate Frameworks are upheld.

Language: Английский

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Balancing land use for conservation, agriculture, and renewable energy DOI Creative Commons
Cameryn Brock, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Tim Beringer

et al.

Research Square (Research Square), Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: July 30, 2024

Abstract Demand for land is increasing due to mounting energy and development needs. Growing demand food coupled with climate policy commitments calling reduced greenhouse gas emissions will result in more being used agricultural renewable development. At the same time, conserving biodiversity nature’s contributions people (NCP) imperative achieving international climate, sustainable development, goals. Meeting these interconnected objectives requires efficient equitable allocation of different sectors. We present a flexible, multiple-objective framework using integer linear programming strategically allocate under change mitigate threats NCP while supporting The application at planetary scale shows that if agriculture are planned without consideration NCP, future demands (6.2 million km2 globally) could impact nearly 1 high-priority areas nature, habitats 440 threatened vertebrate species, 21 Gt vulnerable carbon stocks. Multi-sector planning can potential conflict, reducing number species exposed by 15% amount loss 19%. If proceeds coordinated planning, there insufficient available achieve conservation targets. Our findings underscore need ensure critical biodiversity, storage, conserved; reduce energy; meet remaining efficiently through spatial targeting; coordinate use across sectors intentionally, such as multi-functional landscapes.

Language: Английский

Citations

1