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The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration

Forest restoration has been proposed as a scalable nature-based solution to achieve global environmental and socio-economic outcomes and is central to many policy initiatives, such as the Bonn Challenge. Restored forests contain appreciable biodiversity, improve habitat connectivity and sequester ca...

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Autores principales: Tedesco, Anazelia M., Brancalion, Pedro H. S., Hepburn, Michelle L. Hak, Walji, Khalil, Wilson, Kerrie A., Possingham, Hugh P., Dean, Angela J., Nugent, Nick, Elias-Trostmann, Katerina, Perez-Hammerle, Katharina-Victoria, Rhodes, Jonathan R.
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Publicado: The Royal Society 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9661954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36373914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0088
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author Tedesco, Anazelia M.
Brancalion, Pedro H. S.
Hepburn, Michelle L. Hak
Walji, Khalil
Wilson, Kerrie A.
Possingham, Hugh P.
Dean, Angela J.
Nugent, Nick
Elias-Trostmann, Katerina
Perez-Hammerle, Katharina-Victoria
Rhodes, Jonathan R.
author_facet Tedesco, Anazelia M.
Brancalion, Pedro H. S.
Hepburn, Michelle L. Hak
Walji, Khalil
Wilson, Kerrie A.
Possingham, Hugh P.
Dean, Angela J.
Nugent, Nick
Elias-Trostmann, Katerina
Perez-Hammerle, Katharina-Victoria
Rhodes, Jonathan R.
author_sort Tedesco, Anazelia M.
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description Forest restoration has been proposed as a scalable nature-based solution to achieve global environmental and socio-economic outcomes and is central to many policy initiatives, such as the Bonn Challenge. Restored forests contain appreciable biodiversity, improve habitat connectivity and sequester carbon. Incentive mechanisms (e.g. payments for ecosystem services and allocation of management rights) have been a focus of forest restoration efforts for decades. Yet, there is still little understanding of their role in promoting restoration success. We conducted a systematic literature review to investigate how incentive mechanisms are used to promote forest restoration, outcomes, and the biophysical and socio-economic factors that influence implementation and program success. We found that socio-economic factors, such as governance, monitoring systems and the experience and beliefs of participants, dominate whether or not an incentive mechanism is successful. We found that approximately half of the studies report both positive ecological and socio-economic outcomes. However, reported adverse outcomes were more commonly socio-economic than ecological. Our results reveal that achieving forest restoration at a sufficient scale to meet international commitments will require stronger assessment and management of socio-economic factors that enable or constrain the success of incentive mechanisms. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Understanding forest landscape restoration: reinforcing scientific foundations for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration’.
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spelling pubmed-96619542022-11-18 The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration Tedesco, Anazelia M. Brancalion, Pedro H. S. Hepburn, Michelle L. Hak Walji, Khalil Wilson, Kerrie A. Possingham, Hugh P. Dean, Angela J. Nugent, Nick Elias-Trostmann, Katerina Perez-Hammerle, Katharina-Victoria Rhodes, Jonathan R. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci Part I: Pathways and Constraints for Forest Restoration Forest restoration has been proposed as a scalable nature-based solution to achieve global environmental and socio-economic outcomes and is central to many policy initiatives, such as the Bonn Challenge. Restored forests contain appreciable biodiversity, improve habitat connectivity and sequester carbon. Incentive mechanisms (e.g. payments for ecosystem services and allocation of management rights) have been a focus of forest restoration efforts for decades. Yet, there is still little understanding of their role in promoting restoration success. We conducted a systematic literature review to investigate how incentive mechanisms are used to promote forest restoration, outcomes, and the biophysical and socio-economic factors that influence implementation and program success. We found that socio-economic factors, such as governance, monitoring systems and the experience and beliefs of participants, dominate whether or not an incentive mechanism is successful. We found that approximately half of the studies report both positive ecological and socio-economic outcomes. However, reported adverse outcomes were more commonly socio-economic than ecological. Our results reveal that achieving forest restoration at a sufficient scale to meet international commitments will require stronger assessment and management of socio-economic factors that enable or constrain the success of incentive mechanisms. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Understanding forest landscape restoration: reinforcing scientific foundations for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration’. The Royal Society 2023-01-02 2022-11-14 /pmc/articles/PMC9661954/ /pubmed/36373914 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0088 Text en © 2022 The Authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Tedesco, Anazelia M.
Brancalion, Pedro H. S.
Hepburn, Michelle L. Hak
Walji, Khalil
Wilson, Kerrie A.
Possingham, Hugh P.
Dean, Angela J.
Nugent, Nick
Elias-Trostmann, Katerina
Perez-Hammerle, Katharina-Victoria
Rhodes, Jonathan R.
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration
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title_short The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9661954/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36373914
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0088
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