Combining socioeconomic and biophysical data to identify people-centric restoration opportunities

Choksi, Pooja; Agrawal, Arun; Bialy, Ivan; Chaturvedi, Rohini; Davis, Kyle Frankel; Dhyani, Shalini; Fleischman, Forrest; Lechner, Jonas; Nagendra, Harini; Srininvasan, Veena; DeFries, Ruth

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“…Authors recommend that policymakers and government should mainstream different knowledge systems-scientific as well as traditional and indigenous ecological knowledge systems and its capabilities-in climate, restoration, and biodiversity policies in order to have a more just and evidence-based approach (Choksi et al, 2023). This can be achieved by moving away from linear thinking to systems thinking approach that combines social-ecological and economic transformative perspectives toward achieving coupled climate and LDN targets by 2030 and 2070 for India (Dhyani et al, 2023).…”

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Land degradation and development in India: Status quo, challenges and opportunities

Singh,

Agrawala,

Dhyani

et al. 2024

Land Degrad Dev

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This article reviews and synthesizes the articles published in a virtual special issue (VSI) “Land Degradation and Development in India: Status quo, challenges, and opportunities.” A total of 31 studies (28 research papers and three reviews) are published in this VSI covering various agroclimatic zones of India. These articles provide insights on how different natural and anthropogenic disturbances affect the diversity, and functioning of forests, grasslands, agriculture, agroforestry, and physicochemical and biological composition of the soil. Twelve of these articles also investigate the effectiveness of different restoration methods to restore various degraded ecosystems through agroforestry, afforestation and reforestation, organic amendments, and agroecological interventions. The historical journey of forest restoration, behavioral pattern of local communities for conservation and restoration, and policy framework for restoration in India are discussed in three independent articles. Overall, there is convergence in learnings from these papers for structural and non‐structural land degradation, soil salinization, and agroforestry but results from papers on plantations and organic inputs into farming highlight the need for more research.

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Section: Community Engagement and Policy Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Land degradation and development in India: Status quo, challenges and opportunities

Singh,

Agrawala,

Dhyani

et al. 2024

Land Degrad Dev

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“…Third, by implementing a participatory approach to identify and map strategic areas for restoration, decision-makers and stakeholders contributed significantly for effective and assessable mapping prioritization (Tourinho et al 2023). Therefore, including socioeconomic dimensions at all stages of restoration frameworks is key to providing appropriate cobenefits to both people and nature (Fernandes et al 2020;Choksi et al 2023).…”

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Ten principles for restoring campo rupestre, a threatened tropical, megadiverse, nutrient‐impoverished montane grassland

Arruda

Medeiros

Fiorini

et al. 2023

Restoration Ecology

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To achieve the ambitious goals of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, restoration frameworks should embrace the diversity of ecosystems found on Earth, including open‐canopy ecosystems, which have been largely overlooked. Considering the paucity of scientific foundations promoting restoration science, policy, and practice for open tropical ecosystems, we provide overarching guidelines to restore the campo rupestre, a Neotropical, open megadiverse grassland that has been increasingly threatened by multiple human activities, especially mining. Restoration techniques for tropical grasslands are still at its infancy, and attempts to restore campo rupestre have had, so far, low to moderate success, highlighting the need for a tailored restoration framework. In a scenario of increasing degradation and scarcity of on‐site restoration experiments, we propose 10 principles to improve our ability to plan, implement, and monitor restoration in campo rupestre: (1) include socioeconomic dimensions, (2) implement active restoration, (3) keep low soil fertility, (4) restore disturbance regimes, (5) address genetic structure and adaptation potential, (6) restore geographically restricted and specialized ecological interactions, (7) incorporate functional approaches, (8) use seed‐based restoration strategies to enhance biodiversity, (9) translocation is inevitable, and (10) long‐term monitoring is mandatory. Our principles represent the best available evidence to support better science and practice for the restoration of campo rupestre and, to some extent, can be useful for other megadiverse, fire‐prone, and nutrient‐poor ecosystems.

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Ecosystem Health Assessment in India for Mainstreaming Global Biodiversity Framework Headline Indicator and Prioritising Conservation Action

Dhyani,

Sivadas,

Chaturvedi

et al. 2024

Anthr. Sci.

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Combining socioeconomic and biophysical data to identify people-centric restoration opportunities

Cited by 5 publications

References 22 publications

Land degradation and development in India: Status quo, challenges and opportunities

Land degradation and development in India: Status quo, challenges and opportunities

Ten principles for restoring campo rupestre, a threatened tropical, megadiverse, nutrient‐impoverished montane grassland

Ecosystem Health Assessment in India for Mainstreaming Global Biodiversity Framework Headline Indicator and Prioritising Conservation Action

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