Forest restoration can increase the Rio Doce watershed resilience

Pires, Aliny P. F.; Rezende, Camila Linhares; Assad, Eduardo Delgado; Loyola, Rafael; Scarano, Fábio Rúbio

doi:10.1016/j.pecon.2017.08.003

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“…An assessment of degraded watersheds the Rio Doce, Brazil, estimated that recovery of 716,000 hectares of forest is: a) economically feasible; b) could meet 6% of national restoration commitments; c) improve water quality; and d) improve resilience to both drought and floods 34 .…”

Section: Water Security and Forestsmentioning

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Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

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Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is a promising strategy for improving water, energy and food securities (WEF-Nexus). We advocate that 'forest security' should form a fourth, foundational dimension of a novel water, energy, food and forest security nexus (WEFF-Nexus) framework. Key principles of this new framework support an integrated role of forests in sustainable development, and engagement of local communities in nature-based solutions, particularly in the Global South.We believe that this new approach can help to accelerate the pace and magnitude of changes needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Main textSafeguarding biodiversity and promoting a sustainable and equitable sharing of the planet's natural resources is one of humanity's major challenges 1 . Forests are irreplaceable for maintaining biodiversity and provide crucial direct and indirect benefits to people 2 . Unfortunately, high rates of deforestation and land degradation are transforming landscapes to the extent that they require environmental protection to slow these processes and restoration interventions to support flows of ecosystem services 3 . Severely degraded landscapes have low conservation value and reduced capacity to support human well-being now or in the future 4 . Additionally, three-quarters of poor people worldwide live in rural areas 5 . Managing these altered landscapes to maintain agricultural productivity as well as diverse ecosystem services that support sustainable livelihoods often presents a "wicked problem" -i.e. trade-offs are common 6 .Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a socio-ecological approach to expand restoration objectives and restore landscape characteristics such as productivity, resilience, and sustainability 7 . However, FLR demands complex multidisciplinary approaches based on reliable, coherent conceptual frameworks 8 . Understanding, foreseeing, and minimizing trade-offs is crucial to achieve so-called 'win-win' outcomes for the environment and societies 7 . One possible solution lies in building a holistic framework that recognizes the role of forests as paramount for ecosystem functionality and human well-being. This framework for guiding policy interventions would not eliminate trade-offs but should, ideally, help to recognize, anticipate, and minimize them 9 .Much forest restoration research focuses on targeting priority areas for increasing forest cover based on biophysical and socioeconomic features of landscapes. For instance, Banks-Leite and colleagues 10 used biodiversity conservation thresholds to map and prioritize areas for strategically restoring the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and proposed that re-purposing only 6.5% of the existing agricultural subsidy for that region would support cost-effective restoration on private lands. Another comprehensive study 7 calculated a restoration opportunity score for all tropical

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Section: Water Security and Forestsmentioning

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“…Alguns estudos preveem uma recomposição de milhares de hectares de vegetação nativa em biomas degradados apenas considerando as APPs hídricas. Na bacia do Rio Doce, o passivo de restauração é estimado em cerca de 720 mil hectares (Pires et al, 2017b). Estima-se que o cumprimento do passivo de APP hídrica estimado para a Mata Atlântica, previsto pela LPVN seja cerca de 11 milhões de hectares (Rezende et al, 2018).…”

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“…In 2015, with the collapse of the Fundão dam, located in the municipality of Mariana and operated by the Samarco mining company, this scenario worsened. According to Pires et al (2017), 40 to 63 million m³ of mining tailings were discharged in the river. The damaging consequences, in additi on to the destructi on of total or parti al districts such as Bento Rodrigues, Paracatu and Gesteira, were losses in biodiversity, economic losses for the riverside populati ons and intense polluti on of the enti re Doce River.…”

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Use of multicriteria analysis to define priority areas for reforestation in the Piranga River Basin, MG, Brazil

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A Bacia do Rio Piranga é uma das principais sub-bacias do Rio Doce, sendo uma das mais exploradas historicamente, que culminou em um episódio emblemático, o rompimento da barragem de rejeitos de mineração em Mariana. Os responsáveis pelo dano precisaram desenvolver soluções para reparação do território, destacando-se a definição de áreas prioritárias para conservação. Um fator a considerar para essa definição foi à instituição de espaços protegidos em imóveis rurais, como as Áreas de Preservação Permanente (APPs), consolidadas pelo novo Código Florestal (Lei nº 12.651/2012). Para alocação das áreas de intervenção foi adotada a Análise Multicritério, amplamente utilizada em processos de tomadas de decisão. Os resultados mostraram que as áreas a sudeste do Parque Estadual do Rio Doce apresentam maiores propensões a receber iniciativas de restauração de vegetação nativa. Ocorre o contrário nas regiões mais urbanizadas da bacia, que coincidem, também, com as áreas de maior declividade.

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Forest restoration can increase the Rio Doce watershed resilience

Cited by 41 publications

References 25 publications

Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

Relatório Temático Água: Biodiversidade, Serviços Ecossistêmicos e Bem-Estar Humano no Brasil

Use of multicriteria analysis to define priority areas for reforestation in the Piranga River Basin, MG, Brazil

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