Editorial: Protected areas as natural solutions to climate change

Londoño, Julia Miranda; Albuja, Francisco Jose Prieto; Gamboa, P. M.; Gorricho, Julia; Vergara, Analiz; Welling, Leigh; Wyborn, Carina; Dudley, Nigel

doi:10.2305/iucn.ch.2016.parks-22-1jml.en

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“…In recent years, climate change has emerged as one of the main topics discussed among protected areas agencies, becoming an important issue on the decision-making process (Miranda Londono et al, 2016). Thus, within the concept of ecosystem services, the importance of PAs for carbon sequestration and storage has started to be promoted and studied.…”

Section: Ecosystem Servicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Establishing PAs is noted as one of the most effective ways to prevent deforestation and contribute to the maintenance of carbon stocks (Melillo et al, 2016;Miranda Londono et al, 2016;UNEP--WCMC & IUCN, 2016). Estimates indicate that PAs contain more than 15% of the carbon stored on the terrestrial surface, approximately 312 Gt (Campbell et al, 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Scientists and policy makers have been working on several strategies to address this issue and contribute to climate change mitigation. Among the most effective plans, protected areas (PA) emerge as one of the most widespread and implemented strategy around the world as a way to reduce deforestation and forest degradation (Miranda Londono et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The role of forests and protected areas in climate change mitigation: a review and critique of the ecosystem services and REDD+ approaches

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Emissões de gases de efeito estufa estão entre os principais impactos causados pelos humanos no planeta e estão diretamente ligados às mudanças climáticas. Emissões por desmatamento são reconhecidas como a segunda maior causa de emissão desses gases, contribuindo com 20% de CO2 equivalente liberado na atmosfera em 2010. Uma das principais estratégias adotadas internacionalmente para reduzir o desmatamento e a degradação florestal, e que atualmente vem ganhando importância para a mitigação das mudanças climáticas, é a implantação de áreas protegidas. O paradigma atual de gestão de áreas protegidas é baseado em instrumentos de mercado, exemplificado pelas inciativas de REDD+ e pagamentos de serviços ambientais. Porém, críticos dessa perspectiva argumentam que ela é diretamente influenciada pelo neoliberalismo e privilegia a acumulação de capital à conservação do meio ambiente. Por meio de uma análise crítica da literatura existente, o presente artigo sugere que áreas protegidas são uma estratégia eficiente para a redução do desmatamento, porém é ainda insuficiente e precisa ser acompanhada de ações complementares para o controle de territórios fora de áreas protegidas, que evitem o redirecionamento de atividades ilegais.

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Section: The Role Of Protected Areas In Storing Carbonmentioning

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The role of forests and protected areas in climate change mitigation: a review and critique of the ecosystem services and REDD+ approaches

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Rewriting conservation landscapes: protected areas and glacial retreat in the high Andes

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2018

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Glacial retreat reveals the unsettling effects of anthropogenic climate change, and challenges deeply seated cultural ideas about static landscapes. Glaciers have thus emerged as key signifiers of environmental loss.Because they are the outcomes of Westernized visions of the relationship between nature and culture, protected areas are important sites for understanding how notions of the Anthropocene come to reshape ideas about the future of glaciated landscapes. This article explores one particular conservation initiative, that of the establishment of the tourist and educational facility known as the Route of Climate Change in Peru's Huascarán National Park. It asks how we can understand the production of conservation landscapes in a context where the framing of glaciers as an endangered species denies their fluctuating dynamics and imparts to them a directionality towards irreversible change. Focusing on the contentious production of conservation landscapes through interaction between the park administration and a local community, the article is based on ethnographic fieldwork consisting of semi-structured interviews (48), informal conversations, and participant observation over multiple visits to the area between 2013 and 2015. The study finds that while the production of new conservation narratives certainly resituates the sites in time and place, it also produces uncertain environmental futures that may be molded to secure a rapprochement between park administrations and communities based on mutual alignment of conservation and community practices. It is thus argued that an underlying shift in orientationfrom preserving what is to countering what might otherwise come to beresults in the production of new imaginaries about conservation landscapes that are both a condition and an outcome of protected area management in times of glacial retreat.

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The degradation of the Amazon rainforest: Regional and global climate implications

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Editorial: Protected areas as natural solutions to climate change

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

The role of forests and protected areas in climate change mitigation: a review and critique of the ecosystem services and REDD+ approaches

The role of forests and protected areas in climate change mitigation: a review and critique of the ecosystem services and REDD+ approaches

Rewriting conservation landscapes: protected areas and glacial retreat in the high Andes

The degradation of the Amazon rainforest: Regional and global climate implications

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