Ecosystem-Based Climate Change Mitigation in Wider Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 4918
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Scientific and popular attention has been focused on the so-called ‘twin crises’ of anthropogenic climate change and global biodiversity loss. Recent reports by the Intergovernmental Panels on Climate Change and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services have both drawn attention to the potential and actual risks posed by anthropogenic influences to the ecosystems on which the global population depends. Whilst scientific debate now centres around the scale of the role ecosystem-based mitigation will need to play to limit climate change, it is clear that Natural Climate Solutions will have a huge role to play (e.g., Griscom et al. 2017; Bastin et al. 2019; Lewis et al. 2019). This presents an opportunity to couple this with the urgent need to redress the global loss of biodiversity. However, whilst there seems to be great synergy between these, the degree to which these goals align with one another and with other markers of sustainability has not been fully explored. The land area required to redress climate and biodiversity deficits may well preclude other land uses, unless further synergies of these goals with the wider needs of society can be identified. Papers are sought which address the scale and nature of trade-offs between ecosystem-based climate change mitigation, biodiversity, and other provisioning and regulating ecosystem services, to maximise benefits to the global biome and minimise risk of ‘bio-perversities’(Lindenmayer et al. 2012).
Dr. Rob Field
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecosystem services
- natural climate solutions
- land use
- nature-based solutions
- climate change mitigation