How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration

Sara Löfqvist; Fritz Kleinschroth; Adia Bey; Ariane De Bremond; Ruth Defries; Forrest Fleischman; Sharachchandra Lele; Dominic A. Martin; Peter Messerli; Patrick Meyfroidt; Marion Pfeifer; Sarobidy O. Rakotonarivo; Navin Ramankutty; Vijay Ramprasad; Pushpendra Rana; Jeanine M. Rhemtulla; Casey M. Ryan; Ima Celia Guimarães Vieira; Geoff J. Wells; Rachael D. Garrett

doi:10.1093/biosci/biac099

How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration

Sara Löfqvist, Fritz Kleinschroth, Adia Bey, Ariane De Bremond, Ruth Defries, Forrest Fleischman, Sharachchandra Lele, Dominic A. Martin, Peter Messerli, Patrick Meyfroidt, Marion Pfeifer, Sarobidy O. Rakotonarivo, Navin Ramankutty, Vijay Ramprasad, Pushpendra Rana, Jeanine M. Rhemtulla, Casey M. Ryan, Ima Celia Guimarães Vieira, Geoff J. Wells, Rachael D. Garrett

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Ecosystem restoration is an important means to address global sustainability challenges. However, scientific and policy discourse often overlooks the social processes that influence the equity and effectiveness of restoration interventions. In the present article, we outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy. Drawing from existing case studies, we show how projects that align with local people's preferences and are implemented through inclusive governance are more likely to lead to improved social, ecological, and environmental outcomes. To underscore the importance of social considerations in restoration, we overlay existing global restoration priority maps, population, and the Human Development Index (HDI) to show that approximately 1.4 billion people, disproportionately belonging to groups with low HDI, live in areas identified by previous studies as being of high restoration priority. We conclude with five action points for science and policy to promote equity-centered restoration.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	134-148
Number of pages	15
Journal	BioScience
Volume	73
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac099
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2023

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climate change mitigation
land use management
restoration longevity
restoration policy
social justice

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Löfqvist, S., Kleinschroth, F., Bey, A., De Bremond, A., Defries, R., Fleischman, F., Lele, S., Martin, D. A., Messerli, P., Meyfroidt, P., Pfeifer, M., Rakotonarivo, S. O., Ramankutty, N., Ramprasad, V., Rana, P., Rhemtulla, J. M., Ryan, C. M., Vieira, I. C. G., Wells, G. J., & Garrett, R. D. (2023). How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration. BioScience, 73(2), 134-148. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac099

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