Explosive growth of secondary roads is linked to widespread tropical deforestation

Current Biology, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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The African Development Corridors Database: a new tool to assess the impacts of infrastructure investments

Scientific Data, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 9(1)

Published: Nov. 9, 2022

Abstract The large-scale expansion of built infrastructure is profoundly reshaping the geographies Africa, generating lock-in patterns development for future generations. Understanding impact these massive investments can allow opportunities to be maximised and therefore critical attaining United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals African Union’s Agenda 2063 aims. However, until now information on types, scope, timing investments, their evolution spatial-temporal was dispersed amongst various agencies. We developed a database 79 corridors across synthesizing data from multiple sources covering 184 projects railways, wet dry ports, pipelines, airports, techno-cities, industrial parks. georeferenced interlinked tabular spatial includes 22 attributes. expect this will improve coordination, efficiency, monitoring, oversight, strategic planning, transparency, risk assessments, among other uses investment banks, governments, assessment practitioners, communities, conservationists, economists, regional economic bodies.

Language: Английский

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Appraising the Water‐Energy‐Food Nexus From a Sustainable Development Perspective: A Maturing Paradigm?

Earth s Future, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 10(12)

Published: Nov. 29, 2022

Abstract The water‐energy‐food (WEF) nexus is a prominent approach for addressing today's sustainable development challenges. In our critical appraisal of the WEF, covering different approaches, drivers, enablers, and applications, we emphasize situation across Global South (Africa, Asia, Latin America Caribbean). Here, WEF research covers at least 23 focal domains. We find that still maturing paradigm primarily rooted in physical natural sciences framing, which itself embedded neoliberal securities narrative. While providing insights tools to address systemic interdependencies between resource sectors whose exploitation, degradation, sub‐optimal management contribute (un)sustainable development, there insufficient engagement with social, political, economic dimensions. Progress related climate, urbanization, consumption encouraging, but while governance finance are central enablers current future systems, gaps remain relation implementation operationalization. Harnessing means recognizing it more than biophysical system, also multi‐scale complex people, institutions, infrastructure, affected by history context. Addressing this complexity requires alternative possibly challenging perspectives counter dominant narratives, manage problems associated policy integration, trade‐offs, winners losers. outline 10 emergent areas think can endeavor enable be stronger force.

Language: Английский

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Exploring socioeconomic and environmental impacts of road infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic literature review

Environmental Development, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 101177 - 101177

Published: Feb. 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Research Progress of the Impacts of Comprehensive Transportation Network on Territorial Spatial Development and Protection

Land, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 13(4), P. 479 - 479

Published: April 8, 2024

Coordination between the construction of transport infrastructure and development protection territorial space is an important factor in promoting sustainable regional development, but there still a lack systematic research on impact worldwide. Following logic “development trend revealing—theoretical technological summary—mechanism analysis”, progress two aspects related to systematically comprehensively sorted from perspective multi-scale multi-mode transport. The results show that: (1) number papers effect rise, obvious cross-disciplinary research. (2) Transport will promote terms land use change, spatial-temporal compression, economic affect ecological impacts, energy consumption carbon emissions, crossing zones. (3) In existing research, multi-dimensional indicator system analysis, insufficient at mechanism level, combination theoretical practical application are main problems present, direction urgently needed for future

Language: Английский

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Indirect impacts of commercial gold mining on adjacent ecosystems

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 275, P. 109782 - 109782

Published: Oct. 24, 2022

Language: Английский

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Reconsidering priorities for forest conservation when considering the threats of mining and armed conflict

AMBIO, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 51(9), P. 2007 - 2024

Published: April 10, 2022

Abstract Many threats to biodiversity can be predicted and are well mapped but others uncertain in their extent, impact on biodiversity, ability for conservation efforts address, making them more difficult account spatial planning efforts, as a result, they often ignored. Here, we use prioritisation analysis evaluate the consequences of considering only relatively well-mapped compare this with scenarios that also (in case mining armed conflict) under different management strategies. We three strategies address these threats: 1. ignore them; 2. avoid or 3. specifically target actions towards them, first individually then simultaneously assess inclusion prioritisations. apply our approach eastern Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) identify priority areas conserving carbon sequestration services. found strategy avoids addressing conflict misses important opportunities conservation, compared targets action threat (assuming benefit is possible). independently rather than results 13 800–14 800 km 2 15 700–25 100 potential missed when undertaking threat-avoiding threat-targeting strategies, respectively. Our emphasises importance all prioritisation.

Language: Английский

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Towards more sustainable and inclusive development corridors in Africa

Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 4(3), P. 035012 - 035012

Published: Sept. 1, 2024

Abstract Development corridors are linear programmes of infrastructure and agriculture aiming to facilitate rapid socio-economic development. In Africa, they a major development activity, with 88 underway or planned corridors. Drawing from extensive literature insights gleaned 4 year research programme, this review scrutinizes the impacts on people, wildlife ecosystems in Kenya Tanzania, proposing solutions achieve better outcomes. The overarching goal was discern principle challenges emerging practical execution prevailing corridor model. holistic approach taken, assessing paradigm through an integrated ecological, social, economic lens, provides novel that have not been possible using more traditional—siloed—research approaches. Eight key challenge areas identified: impact assessments processes; coherence across international, national local planning; governance; inclusivity; equality; biodiversity ecosystem services; incorporation future climate risks; water resource management. Poorly implemented detrimentally livelihoods ecosystems. They lack sustainable vision, detailed environmental risk assessments, develop incrementally policy corporate spaces. There is also often disconnect between investors recipient governments, some funding what governments request without applying internationally-recognised safeguards, lacking capacity resources enforce regulations. We make recommendations for addressing these areas. These aim enhance assessment efficacy; integrate perspectives into effective inclusive overcome siloed project implementation; anticipate projections; prioritise landscape preservation enhanced services resilience.

Language: Английский

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Greenfield foreign direct investment flows to Central Africa by activity, source and destination, 2017-22

Africa’s development dynamics, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: July 7, 2023

The annual flagship report Africa's Development Dynamics provides the latest information on economic policies African continent and in its five regions.It proposes a new narrative assessing economic, social institutional performance light of targets set by Union's Agenda 2063.This 2023 edition explores how Africa can attract investments that offer best balance between environmental objectives.Africa's is product collaborative approach.It results from strong partnership Union Commission's Department Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry Minerals OECD Centre, bringing together team academic researchers, economists, statisticians, experts other regions.The first two chapters explore current investment landscape recommend priority actions, offering lessons across beyond.The next focus respectively regions as defined Abuja Treaty: Southern, Central, East, North West Africa.These tailor policy recommendations to strategic areas each region, covering natural ecosystems, renewable energy, climate finance agri-food value chains.This draws wide range data sources analyse public, private, domestic foreign investments.These are complemented primary collected through an AUC/OECD online survey risks, barriers priorities linked cross-border countries.The was administered June October 2022 networks business councils EU-Africa Business Forum, gathering responses 58 non-African representatives.Eight in-depth interviews with multinational investors members Emerging Markets Network (EMnet) were also conducted supplement results.

Language: Английский

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Defining Pathways towards African Ecological Futures

Sustainability, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 13(16), P. 8894 - 8894

Published: Aug. 9, 2021

Africa has experienced unprecedented growth across a range of development indices for decades. However, this is often at the expense Africa’s biodiversity and ecosystems, jeopardizing livelihoods millions people depending on goods services provided by nature, with broader consequences achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Encouragingly, can still take more sustainable path. Here, we synthesize key learnings from African Ecological Futures project. We report results participatory scenario planning process around four collectively-owned scenarios narratives evolution ecological resource base over next 50 years. These lens to review pressures natural environment, through drivers, pressures, state, impacts, responses (DPSIR) framework. Based outcomes each these steps, discuss opportunities reorient trajectories towards fall under broad categories “effective governance”, “strategic capabilities”, “investment safeguards frameworks”, “new partnership models”. Underpinning all are “data, management information, decision support frameworks”. This work help inform collaborative action set actors an interest in ensuring future Africa.

Language: Английский

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