Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America

Tree planting and reforestation are currently in the spotlight as strategies for solving global environmental degradation. Many ongoing large-scale initiatives have proposed restoring millions of hectares and planting a trillion trees to solve climate change and biodiversity loss. Forest and landsca...

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Autores principales:	Sebastián Aguiar, Matías E. Mastrángelo, Pedro H.S. Brancalion, Paula Meli
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Publicado:	Taylor & Francis Group 2021
Materias:	eliane ceccon Human ecology. Anthropogeography GF1-900 Environmental sciences GE1-350
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:47caa6f73a1349a1982734b3ab05d9f02021-11-04T15:51:57ZTransformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America2639-591610.1080/26395916.2021.1976838https://doaj.org/article/47caa6f73a1349a1982734b3ab05d9f02021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/26395916.2021.1976838https://doaj.org/toc/2639-5916Tree planting and reforestation are currently in the spotlight as strategies for solving global environmental degradation. Many ongoing large-scale initiatives have proposed restoring millions of hectares and planting a trillion trees to solve climate change and biodiversity loss. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is one of the approaches most frequently employed to support these initiatives. Currently, many FLR initiatives are implemented in developing countries through a top-down approach, not fully anchored to the social-ecological characteristics of landscapes (e.g. land use and tenure, values of local peoples, local livelihoods), and sometimes relegating human well-being to a secondary concern. Therefore, issues of social equity and legitimacy might hamper the effectiveness of FLR initiatives and projects regarding their environmental outcomes. In this perspective article, we present four challenges to better link FLR and human well-being in Latin America: (1) the high dependence of local communities and countries’ economies on natural resources, (2) conflicts over land tenure and access, (3) divergence in perceptions and values, and (4) the fragility of public institutions and policies. After describing these interrelated challenges, we discuss how to tackle them by implementing instruments and approaches recently organized under the concept of transformative governance. Finding an equitable and legitimate balance between global interests and urgency and increasing local well-being is the main challenge of FLR in Latin America, for which transformative governance is critical.Sebastián AguiarMatías E. MastrángeloPedro H.S. BrancalionPaula MeliTaylor & Francis Grouparticleeliane cecconHuman ecology. AnthropogeographyGF1-900Environmental sciencesGE1-350ENEcosystems and People, Vol 17, Iss 1, Pp 523-538 (2021)
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spellingShingle	eliane ceccon Human ecology. Anthropogeography GF1-900 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Sebastián Aguiar Matías E. Mastrángelo Pedro H.S. Brancalion Paula Meli Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
description	Tree planting and reforestation are currently in the spotlight as strategies for solving global environmental degradation. Many ongoing large-scale initiatives have proposed restoring millions of hectares and planting a trillion trees to solve climate change and biodiversity loss. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is one of the approaches most frequently employed to support these initiatives. Currently, many FLR initiatives are implemented in developing countries through a top-down approach, not fully anchored to the social-ecological characteristics of landscapes (e.g. land use and tenure, values of local peoples, local livelihoods), and sometimes relegating human well-being to a secondary concern. Therefore, issues of social equity and legitimacy might hamper the effectiveness of FLR initiatives and projects regarding their environmental outcomes. In this perspective article, we present four challenges to better link FLR and human well-being in Latin America: (1) the high dependence of local communities and countries’ economies on natural resources, (2) conflicts over land tenure and access, (3) divergence in perceptions and values, and (4) the fragility of public institutions and policies. After describing these interrelated challenges, we discuss how to tackle them by implementing instruments and approaches recently organized under the concept of transformative governance. Finding an equitable and legitimate balance between global interests and urgency and increasing local well-being is the main challenge of FLR in Latin America, for which transformative governance is critical.
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author	Sebastián Aguiar Matías E. Mastrángelo Pedro H.S. Brancalion Paula Meli
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title	Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
title_short	Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
title_full	Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
title_fullStr	Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
title_full_unstemmed	Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
title_sort	transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in latin america
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Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America

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