Integrated landscape approaches to managing social and environmental issues in the tropics: learning from the past to guide the future

J Reed, J Van Vianen, EL Deakin, J Barlow… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Poverty, food insecurity, climate change and biodiversity loss continue to persist as the
primary environmental and social challenges faced by the global community. As such, there …

Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification

T Tscharntke, Y Clough, TC Wanger, L Jackson… - Biological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Under the current scenario of rapid human population increase, achieving efficient and
productive agricultural land use while conserving biodiversity is a global challenge. There is …

A global-level assessment of the effectiveness of protected areas at resisting anthropogenic pressures

J Geldmann, A Manica, ND Burgess… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
One-sixth of the global terrestrial surface now falls within protected areas (PAs), making it
essential to understand how far they mitigate the increasing pressures on nature which …

Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

J Liang, TW Crowther, N Picard, S Wiser, M Zhou… - Science, 2016 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The biodiversity-productivity relationship (BPR; the effect of biodiversity on
ecosystem productivity) is foundational to our understanding of the global extinction crisis …

Evaluating the impacts of protected areas on human well-being across the developing world

R Naidoo, D Gerkey, D Hole, A Pfaff, AM Ellis… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Protected areas (PAs) are fundamental for biodiversity conservation, yet their impacts on
nearby residents are contested. We synthesized environmental and socioeconomic …

Green consumption: E nvironmental knowledge, environmental consciousness, social norms, and purchasing behavior

ST Lin, HJ Niu - Business Strategy and the Environment, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2015 Paris Agreement is the first historical global accord aiming to palliate
global warming. Climate change has caused ecological, economic, and social disasters …

A global assessment of the social and conservation outcomes of protected areas

JA Oldekop, G Holmes, WE Harris… - Conservation …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Protected areas (PAs) are a key strategy for protecting biological resources, but they vary
considerably in their effectiveness and are frequently reported as having negative impacts …

Reductions in global biodiversity loss predicted from conservation spending

A Waldron, DC Miller, D Redding, A Mooers, TS Kuhn… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Halting global biodiversity loss is central to the Convention on Biological Diversity and
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals,, but success to date has been very …

Mapping species distributions with MAXENT using a geographically biased sample of presence data: a performance assessment of methods for correcting sampling …

Y Fourcade, JO Engler, D Rödder, J Secondi - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
MAXENT is now a common species distribution modeling (SDM) tool used by conservation
practitioners for predicting the distribution of a species from a set of records and …

The future value of ecosystem services: Global scenarios and national implications

I Kubiszewski, R Costanza, S Anderson… - Environmental …, 2020 - elgaronline.com
Ecosystem services are a major contributor to sustainable human well-being. Between 1997
and 2011, the global value of these services has decreased by an estimated US $20 …