Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration
A priority outcome from the 2012 United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development (1) was the target to restore, by 2020, 150 million ha of disturbed and degraded land globally (2). An initiative of this scale is estimated to cost U.S. $18 billion per year and to provide U.S. $84 billion...
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| description | A priority outcome from the 2012 United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development (1) was the target to restore, by 2020, 150 million ha of disturbed and degraded land globally (2). An initiative of this scale is estimated to cost U.S. $18 billion per year and to provide U.S. $84 billion per year to the global economy (2). Although such initiatives have transformative potential because of their scope and backing, they require technology and knowledge capacity to deliver proven, scalable restoration (3). Restoration processes must achieve the greatest value for money, as far as socioeconomic and biodiversity conservation outcomes, while avoiding costly and simplistic plantings (4). |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-67932017-09-13T14:37:01Z Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration Menz, M. Dixon, Kingsley Hobbs, R. A priority outcome from the 2012 United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development (1) was the target to restore, by 2020, 150 million ha of disturbed and degraded land globally (2). An initiative of this scale is estimated to cost U.S. $18 billion per year and to provide U.S. $84 billion per year to the global economy (2). Although such initiatives have transformative potential because of their scope and backing, they require technology and knowledge capacity to deliver proven, scalable restoration (3). Restoration processes must achieve the greatest value for money, as far as socioeconomic and biodiversity conservation outcomes, while avoiding costly and simplistic plantings (4). 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/6793 10.1126/science.1228334 American Association for the Advancement of Science restricted |
| spellingShingle | Menz, M. Dixon, Kingsley Hobbs, R. Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration |
| title | Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration |
| title_full | Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration |
| title_fullStr | Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration |
| title_short | Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration |
| title_sort | hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration |
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