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Venier-Cambron, C., Helm, L.T., Malek, Z. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6981-6708, & Verburg, P.H.
(2024).
Representing justice in global land-use scenarios can align biodiversity benefits with protection from land grabbing.
One Earth 7 (5) 896-907. 10.1016/j.oneear.2024.03.006.
Abstract
Protecting biodiversity while meeting food demands is a critical challenge due to rising competition over land. The predominant focus on spatial efficiency in land-use modeling frameworks can dichotomize these objectives and ignore local realities by disregarding biodiversity outside priority areas and the land-use needs of communities who depend on local land systems for their nutrition. We develop a spatially explicit exploratory scenario for 2050 that promotes whole-region biodiversity intactness using a land-system-specific intactness index and incorporates differentiated food futures by protecting important land systems for land-dependent communities from conversion for larger-scale objectives. These are pursued alongside SSP2 “business-as-usual” agricultural demands, uncovering potential tradeoffs. Our results highlight the importance of forest mosaics in agricultural landscapes alongside targeted intensification for meeting food and biodiversity goals and that protecting land-dependent communities does not compromise larger-scale objectives. This demonstrates that land-use models can integrate diverse values, including certain conceptualizations of justice, into sustainability scenarios.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | land-use modeling, biodiversity intactness, food sovereignty, environmental justice, sustainability scenarios |
| Research Programs: | Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) > Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainability (NODES) |
| Depositing User: | Luke Kirwan |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2024 14:13 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2024 14:18 |
| URI: | https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/19663 |
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