December 23, 2019

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December 22, 2019

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Natural regeneration and the outcomes arising from it vary widely across multiple spatial and temporal scales and are affected by linked environmental and socioeconomic drivers. Investors operating in different businesses usually avoid high-risk transactions, which likely constrains the flow of financial resources to restoration initiatives that are perceived as uncertain and risky. Although predicting both…

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Over 140 Mha of large-scale restoration commitments have been pledged across the global tropics, yet guidance is needed to identify those landscapes where implementation is likely to provide the greatest potential benefits and cost-effective outcomes. We identify restoration opportunities in lowland tropical rainforest landscapes by overlaying seven recent, peer-reviewed spatial datasets as proxies for the…

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The status of the global environment has deteriorated in the last decades, with major increases in degraded land, freshwater uses and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Land degradation has become a major threat to both earth’s ecosystems and human livelihoods, accelerating climate change, causing land to be more predisposed to natural disasters, risking food security,…