Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approach
Current debates on biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+ are marked by considerable ambiguity and contention. Nevertheless, REDD+ continues to represent one of the most important opportunities for global biodiversity conservation, and the question of how best to achieve biodiversity co-benefits remai...
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| description | Current debates on biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+ are marked by considerable ambiguity and contention. Nevertheless, REDD+ continues to represent one of the most important opportunities for global biodiversity conservation, and the question of how best to achieve biodiversity co-benefits remains an important one. Thus far, most biodiversity conservation in the context of REDD+ is predicated on the notion that services are co-located on a landscape. In contrast, this letter argues that decoupling biodiversity and carbon services on a landscape through national-level planning is a better approach to biodiversity conservation under REDD+. We discuss the fundamental ecological differences between the two services and use principles of resource economics to demonstrate that a decoupled approach will be more efficient, more flexible, and better able to mobilize sufficient finance for biodiversity conservation than a coupled approach. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7d0bc90739fb47b2bb9c292e3236d77e2023-08-09T14:23:34ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262013-01-018202401910.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024019Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approachMatthew D Potts0Lisa C Kelley1Hannah M Doll2Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California , Berkeley, CA, USADepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California , Berkeley, CA, USADepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California , Berkeley, CA, USACurrent debates on biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+ are marked by considerable ambiguity and contention. Nevertheless, REDD+ continues to represent one of the most important opportunities for global biodiversity conservation, and the question of how best to achieve biodiversity co-benefits remains an important one. Thus far, most biodiversity conservation in the context of REDD+ is predicated on the notion that services are co-located on a landscape. In contrast, this letter argues that decoupling biodiversity and carbon services on a landscape through national-level planning is a better approach to biodiversity conservation under REDD+. We discuss the fundamental ecological differences between the two services and use principles of resource economics to demonstrate that a decoupled approach will be more efficient, more flexible, and better able to mobilize sufficient finance for biodiversity conservation than a coupled approach.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024019conservationecosystem servicescarbonforest managementlandscape-level planningtropical forests |
| spellingShingle | Matthew D Potts Lisa C Kelley Hannah M Doll Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approach Environmental Research Letters conservation ecosystem services carbon forest management landscape-level planning tropical forests |
| title | Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approach |
| title_full | Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approach |
| title_fullStr | Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approach |
| title_short | Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approach |
| title_sort | maximizing biodiversity co benefits under redd a decoupled approach |
| topic | conservation ecosystem services carbon forest management landscape-level planning tropical forests |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024019 |
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