In Situ Conservation Tools to Mitigate Impacts from Global Change on Biodiversity
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Systems and Global Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 December 2024 | Viewed by 17448
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biodiversity conservation; protected area effectiveness; sustainability assessment; policy assessment
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Interests: land use-land cover changes; protected areas; human risk of forest fires; sustainability assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The human impact on the biosphere is greater than ever. Global human-made environmental changes, notably land use–land cover changes and climate change, are threatening up to one million living species with extinction in the coming decades (IPBES, 2019). The sustained expansion of protected area (PA) systems is proving insufficient to abate ever-growing pressures both inside and outside PAs (Butchart et al., 2010; IPBES, 2019); thus, assessing and enhancing conservation effectiveness is becoming increasingly important. It is likely that other complementary on-site biodiversity conservation tools are additionally needed to stop and revert the alarming biodiversity crisis that humans have created.
This Special Issue seeks original contributions on global change pressures on terrestrial PAs, PA effectiveness in responding to such pressures and conserving biodiversity, and assessments of other on-site conservation initiatives that can complement PAs and help retain as much biodiversity as possible in the face of global change. Examples of such tools are Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs), community-conserved areas, areas under land stewardship, or ecological restoration areas/projects.
Authors are encouraged to submit studies on biodiversity assessment outcomes in PAs/OECMs, accurate and innovative site assessment methods, analyses of pressures on PAs/OECMs, threat abatement initiatives, and original proposals for reverting gloomy biodiversity trends focusing on PAs but also on broader in situ landscape conservation, management, or governance approaches such as ecological restoration, OECMs, land stewardship schemes, or indigenous and community conserved areas. National, regional, or global analyses and reviews as well as case studies are particularly welcomed.
Dr. David Rodríguez-Rodríguez
Dr. Javier Martínez-Vega
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodiversity crisis
- pressure assessment
- protected area effectiveness
- conservation outcome
- land use–land cover change
- climate change
- ecological restoration
- OECM
- community conserved area
- Anthropocene
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