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Shifting to a Land Systems Paradigm in Conservation

Descrizione del progetto

Mutamenti nell’uso del suolo e conservazione della biodiversità

L’uso del suolo costituisce la principale causa della perdita di biodiversità, che a sua volta rappresenta una crisi globale che minaccia il benessere umano. Il progetto SystemShift, finanziato dal CER, comporterà importanti passi avanti nella comprensione del modo in cui l’uso del suolo mette a repentaglio la biodiversità. In particolare, SystemShift elaborerà concetti innovativi per l’individuazione delle combinazioni determinanti tra attori dell’uso del suolo e minacce, al fine di capire le interazioni tra le diverse minacce legate all’uso del suolo ed eseguire una pianificazione efficace delle attività di conservazione. Il progetto validerà in modo empirico tali concetti per due regioni forestali aride tropicali in Sud America, le foreste Chaco e Chiquitano, studiando le foreste aride da un punto di vista globale per fornire spunti per le sfide e le opportunità di conservazione in questi ambienti a rischio di estinzione.

Obiettivo

Biodiversity loss is a global crisis threatening human wellbeing, and the main driver is how we use land. Decisions about land use are made in social-ecological systems, yet conservation science is currently ill-equipped to consider the complex and dynamic interactions between land-use actors and their environment. This translates into conservation failures and missed opportunities. My overarching goal is to develop new, interdisciplinary concepts and approaches that enable a different, social-ecological perspective on land use in conservation. This promises major breakthroughs in our understanding of threats to biodiversity and how to design effective conservation strategies. My project will be organized in three main steps. STEP 1 will develop novel concepts to identify key combinations of land-use actors, practices, and threats to biodiversity, and organize them into a systems typology for conservation. This step will also design innovative indicators to map how threats vary and interact in space and time. I will apply and test these concepts globally, for the poorly studied tropical dry forests. STEP 2 will empirically validate these concepts for two tropical dry forests regions in South America. Comparative social-ecological fieldwork will reveal how threats impact biodiversity, how land-use actors relate to threats, and how conservation actions influence actors. This will enable a major advance in conservation planning methods to consider land-use actors, dynamic threats, and to rigorously evaluate when, where, and at which scale conservation is most effective. STEP 3 will integrate the project results to provide generalized insights into conservation challenges and opportunities in tropical dry forests globally. My project will cross-fertilise between land system science and conservation science and link to international science-policy dialogues, laying the foundation for a new research agenda integrating complex land systems into biodiversity conservation.

Meccanismo di finanziamento

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Istituzione ospitante

HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITAET ZU BERLIN
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 999 125,00
Indirizzo
UNTER DEN LINDEN 6
10117 Berlin
Germania

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Regione
Berlin Berlin Berlin
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 1 999 125,00

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