Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs
Can we avert an Amazon tipping point? The economic and environmental costs
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我们能避免亚马逊的临界点吗?
DOI:
10.1088/1748-9326/aca3b8
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Brando, Paulo M
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作者:
Banerjee, Onil;Cicowiez, Martin;Macedo, Marcia N;Malek, Žiga;Verburg, Peter H;Goodwin, Sean;Vargas, Renato;Rattis, Ludmila;Bagstad, Kenneth J;Brando, Paulo M
The Amazon biome is being pushed by unsustainable economic drivers towards an ecological tipping point where restoration to its previous state may no longer be possible. This degradation is the result of self-reinforcing interactions between deforestation, climate change and fire. We assess the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts and trade-offs of scenarios representing movement towards an Amazon tipping point and strategies to avert one using the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modeling (IEEM) Platform linked with spatial land use-land cover change and ecosystem services modeling (IEEM + ESM). Our approach provides the first approximation of the economic, natural capital and ecosystem services impacts of a tipping point, and evidence to build the economic case for strategies to avert it. For the five Amazon focal countries, namely, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Bolivia and Ecuador, we find that a tipping point would create economic losses of US$256.6 billion in cumulative gross domestic product by 2050. Policies that would contribute to averting a tipping point, including strongly reducing deforestation, investing in intensifying agriculture in cleared lands, climate-adapted agriculture and improving fire management, would generate approximately US$339.3 billion in additional wealth and a return on investment of US$29.5 billion. Quantifying the costs, benefits and trade-offs of policies to avert a tipping point in a transparent and replicable manner can support the design of regional development strategies for the Amazon biome, build the business case for action and catalyze global cooperation and financing to enable policy implementation.
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DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-5195-1
发表时间:
2019-03
期刊:
Mathematical Models in Science
影响因子:
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通讯作者:
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影响因子:
1.9
作者:
Brando, Paulo;Macedo, Marcia;Amorim, Cristina
通讯作者:
Amorim, Cristina
DOI:
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发表时间:
2020
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影响因子:
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作者:
O. Banerjee;M. Cicowiez;Ž. Malek;P. Verburg;Renato Vargas;S. Goodwin
通讯作者:
S. Goodwin
影响因子:
7
作者:
S. Franklin;R. Pindyck
通讯作者:
R. Pindyck
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发表时间:
2004
期刊:
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影响因子:
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作者:
Tariq Banuri
通讯作者:
Tariq Banuri