Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world
Por:
Oldekop, Johan A., Rasmussen, Laura Vang, Agrawal, Arun, Bebbington, Anthony J., Meyfroidt, Patrick, Bengston, David N., Blackman, Allen, Brooks, Stephen, Davidson-Hunt, Iain, Davies, Penny, Dinsi, Stanley C., Fontana, Lorenza B., Gumucio, Tatiana, Kumar, Chetan, Kumar, Kundan, Moran, Dominic, Mwampamba, Tuyeni H., Nasi, Robert, Nilsson, Margareta, Pinedo-Vasquez, Miguel A., Rhemtulla, Jeanine M., Sutherland, William J., Watkins, Cristy, Wilson, Sarah J.
Publicada:
1 dic 2020
Categoría:
Plant science
Resumen:
The landscape of forest and human activity is ever shifting, but new
large-scale trends are causing exceptional changes and potential space
for new conservation and development for communities dependent on
forests.
Forests have re-taken centre stage in global conversations about
sustainability, climate and biodiversity. Here, we use a horizon
scanning approach to identify five large-scale trends that are likely to
have substantial medium- and long-term effects on forests and forest
livelihoods: forest megadisturbances; changing rural demographics; the
rise of the middle-class in low- and middle-income countries; increased
availability, access and use of digital technologies; and large-scale
infrastructure development. These trends represent human and
environmental processes that are exceptionally large in geographical
extent and magnitude, and difficult to reverse. They are creating new
agricultural and urban frontiers, changing existing rural landscapes and
practices, opening spaces for novel conservation priorities and
facilitating an unprecedented development of monitoring and evaluation
platforms that can be used by local communities, civil society
organizations, governments and international donors. Understanding these
larger-scale dynamics is key to support not only the critical role of
forests in meeting livelihood aspirations locally, but also a range of
other sustainability challenges more globally. We argue that a better
understanding of these trends and the identification of levers for
change requires that the research community not only continue to build
on case studies that have dominated research efforts so far, but place a
greater emphasis on causality and causal mechanisms, and generate a
deeper understanding of how local, national and international
geographical scales interact.
Filiaciones:
Univ Michigan, Forests & Livelihoods Assessment Res & Engagement, Sch Environm & Sustainabil, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
Univ Manchester, Global Dev Inst, Manchester, Lancs, England
Univ Copenhagen, Dept Geosci & Nat Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark
Clark Univ, Grad Sch Geog, Worcester, MA 01610 USA
UCLouvain, Earth & Life Inst, Georges Lemaitre Ctr Earth & Climate Res, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
FRS FNRS, Brussels, Belgium
US Forest Serv, Strateg Foresight Grp, Northern Res Stn, USDA, St Paul, MN USA
Resources Future Inc, Washington, DC USA
Interamer Dev Bank, Washington, DC USA
US Agcy Int Dev, Off Land & Urban, Bur Econ Growth Educ & Environm, Washington, DC 20523 USA
Univ Manitoba, Nat Resources Inst, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Ford Fdn, New York, NY USA
Network Environm & Sustainable Dev Cent Africa, Yaounde, Cameroon
Newcastle Univ, Polit Dept, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne & Wear, England
Int Ctr Trop Agr CIAT, Cali, Colombia
Columbia Univ, Int Res Inst Climate & Soc, Earth Inst, Palisades, NY USA
Int Union Conservat Nat IUCN, Washington, DC USA
Rights & Resources Initiat, Washington, DC USA
Univ Edinburgh, Global Acad Agr & Food Secur, Royal Dick Sch Vet Studies, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Univ Edinburgh, Roslin Inst, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Natl Autonomous Univ Mexico UNAM, Inst Ecosyst & Sustainabil Res, Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
Ctr Int Forestry Res CIFOR, Bogor, Indonesia
Int Land & Forest Tenure Facil, Stockholm, Sweden
Earth Innovat Inst, San Francisco, CA USA
Univ British Columbia, Dept Forest & Conservat Sci, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Univ Cambridge, Dept Zool, Cambridge, England
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