Restoration prioritization must be informed by marginalized people
Restoration prioritization must be informed by marginalized people
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边缘化人群必须告知恢复优先顺序
DOI:
10.1038/s41586-022-04733-x
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发表时间:
2022
期刊:
影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
Veldman, Joseph W.
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作者:
Fleischman, Forrest;Coleman, Eric;Fischer, Harry;Kashwan, Prakash;Pfeifer, Marion;Ramprasad, Vijay;Rodriguez Solorzano, Claudia;Veldman, Joseph W.
The maps and analysis by Strassburg et al. 1 should not be used by policy-makers in their current form, because of the risk of displacing marginalized people, compromising food security and undermining democratic processes. Their analysis was based on normative choices to value (that is, to optimize) relationships among biodiversity potential, carbon storage potential and cost effectiveness, without considering the well-being and rights of people who live in areas identified as restoration priorities, nor the implementation costs of changing land use. Although it may be informative to map the joint distribution of biodiversity, carbon and commodity prices, the absence of important socioeconomic values obscures both the costs and benefits to the Indigenous, forest-dependent and rural people who are directly affected by restoration interventions. We pose three cautionary questions that we believe must be answered before the maps produced by Strassburg et al. 1 are used by decision-makers to motivate and implement restoration-promoting land-use policies. The first question we pose is to ask who lives in the places identified as restoration priorities. Although restoration requires collaboration with local people as well as compliance with their laws and customs 2, Strassburg et al. 1 say little about the people living on the land identified as restoration priorities. Many of the areas identified as high priority for restoration are currently used for crops or livestock, and are governed by complicated legal structures that include recognized and unrecognized rights of Indigenous people 3. The number of people affected and the impact on agricultural markets is likely to be large: 295 million people live on land previously identified as ‘forest-restoration opportunities’4. Many of these people are Indigenous and/or hold insecure land tenure 4.When restoration activities do not consider the existing land-use practices or legal rights of people, they risk undermining livelihoods and food security, displacing people from their lands, creating human-rights abuses and compromising long-term conservation benefits 5, 6. Restoration might have sustained positive effects on conservation and livelihoods when implemented in concert with local interests to restore land that is not used for livelihoods, or when restoration involves approaches such as agroforestry, which can maintain some elements of natural ecosystems while supporting livelihoods 6. Nonetheless, Strassburg et al. 1 chose to compare the biomass and soil carbon stocks of ‘converted’lands to a model of ‘old-growth ecosystems’ and ‘pre-settlement conditions’. This modelling choice implies that restoration involves removing people, whereas recent research shows that restoration goals can often be achieved alongside continued
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影响因子:
16.8
作者:
Erbaugh, J. T.;Pradhan, N.;Chhatre, A.
通讯作者:
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影响因子:
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1717072115
发表时间:
2018-02
期刊:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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通讯作者:
J. Watson
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1908433116
发表时间:
2019-12-03
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
Coleman, Eric A.;Manyindo, Jacob;Schultz, Bill
通讯作者:
Schultz, Bill