Socioeconomic impacts of urban restoration in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Lemgruber, Luisa; Maioli, Verônica; Latawiec, Agnieszka E.; Solórzano, Alexandro; Moraes, Luiz Fernando Duarte de; Lino, Eric Delgado dos Santos Mafra; Pena, Ingrid Almeida de Barros; Strassburg, Bernardo B. N.

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2021.127271

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“…The evidence base needs to be further developed, although some relevant insights exist. For example, an integrated evaluation has shown that forest plantations as NbS can provide job opportunities, while revitalizing degraded forests and mitigating fragmentation (Lemgruber et al, 2021). Regarding trade-offs, a rooftop farm was implemented as an NbS for ensuring food security in highly dense urban areas, but the life cycle cost increased compared to using a flat roof (Kim et al, 2018).…”

Section: Multifunctionality Of Nature-based Solutionsmentioning

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Solution to what? Global assessment of nature-based solutions, urban challenges, and outcomes

Li,

Remme,

Van Bodegom

et al. 2023

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In response to multiple societal challenges faced by urban areas, nature-based solutions (NbS) are gaining prominence as means to support sustainable and resilient urban planning. However, NbS are being implemented in cities around the globe without comprehensive evidence on their effectiveness in addressing urban challenges. Based on a systematic mapping methodology, we synthesized 361 scientific publications that investigated the effects of NbS applied in urban contexts worldwide. We mapped and analyzed 547 empirical cases of NbS in 197 cities globally, yielding 794 outcomes. To structure this evidence we developed an urban NbS classification. With the aid of this classification, we analyzed 23 urban challenge categories and 30 outcome domains encompassing biodiversity, health well-being, and regulating ecosystem services. The established linkages between urban challenges, NbS, and their outcomes indicate that specific urban challenges were predominantly addressed through specific sets of outcomes. Specifically, forests & trees and general parks were commonly used to enhance health and well-being, while grassland and gardens were applied to mitigate biodiversity loss. Furthermore, we show that urban NbS generally yielded overwhelmingly positive effects compared to non-NbS, particularly in relation to microclimate mitigation and mental health outcomes. However, our analysis underscores a notable scarcity of evidence of multifunctional NbS that report multiple outcomes related to biodiversity and well-being simultaneously. In combination, our study provides a foundation for further understanding NbS effectiveness and can empower urban planners and policymakers with measurable evidenced-based targets for the application of NbS.

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Section: Multifunctionality Of Nature-based Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Solution to what? Global assessment of nature-based solutions, urban challenges, and outcomes

Li,

Remme,

Van Bodegom

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…This has serious implications for the approximately 3.2 billion people who live in these areas, as well as for the overall drivers and impacts of land degradation. They help us to understand the underlying causes of degradation and can guide policy and decision-making processes [28,29]. However, it is important to note that these technologies may be limited in capturing the physical changes in land cover and soil conditions.…”

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Exploring the Driving Forces of Vegetation Greening on the Loess Plateau at the County Scale

Kong,

Huang,

et al. 2024

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China has implemented several ecological projects in the Loess Plateau region to address severe land degradation and soil erosion. Accurately assessing ecological restoration and its driving factors remains challenging. Previous studies in this area concentrated on driving factors have mainly focused on natural factors at the regional or watershed scale, with limited consideration of socioeconomic factors at the county scale. In this study conducted in Huanglong County on the Loess Plateau, the focus was to fill the gaps in previous research and provide insights into the socioeconomic driving forces behind vegetation greening. Remote sensing image data (NDVI) from 1999 to 2019 were used to analyze vegetation greenness dynamics in the region. Five socioeconomic variables were considered, including afforestation intensity, deforestation intensity, agricultural intensity, village intensity, and road intensity layers, to characterize the impact of afforestation, agriculture, and urbanization policies. The RESTREND (residual trends) method was employed to assess the relative importance of climate and human activities on vegetation dynamics. This study found that temperature–NDVI relationships are more suitable for building RESTREND models than precipitation–NDVI relationships. Human activity was the main driver of vegetation dynamics, contributing 62% compared to 38% from climate change. Agricultural practices and afforestation were found to have a positive impact on ecological restoration, while deforestation and urbanization had no significant impact. These findings highlight a conceptual framework for understanding the intricate relationship between ecological restoration, climatic factors, and human activity on the Loess Plateau. This study suggests that significant progress has been made in ecological restoration through human efforts in combating land degradation. However, it emphasizes the need to strengthen natural conservation efforts and gradually transition toward restoration processes driven by natural forces for sustainable socioeconomic development. The methodology used in this study can be applied to explore the driving forces of ecological restoration in other regions facing human-driven land degradation.

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“…In decades, there has been an increase in public awareness of environmental problems in urban and rural restoration (Lemgruber et al, 2021). Recently, green purchasing behaviour, environmentally responsible behaviours (Lee et al, 2013) have a focus on the environment protection and sustainability.…”

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Green innovation in agriculture development: the impact of environment awareness, technology spillover, and social networks

Hien

Khanh

2023

IJSAMI

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Green agriculture with the benefits of environmental protection, food safety and high economic value is becoming the destination of modern agriculture. Therefore, green innovation in agriculture leads to sustainable development, thereby improving the efficiency of management and use of natural resources while enhancing adaptability and resilience to the impacts of climate change. This study proposed the relationships among environment awareness, technology spillover (TS), social networks, and green innovation. Additionally, this study also investigates moderating role of social networks on green innovation and sustainable development. The probability sampling method was employed to develop a research sample. The research uses correlation analysis and structural equation modelling (SEM) to analyse the data of valid observations collected in the structured questionnaire survey in Vietnam. The results indicate that environment awareness and TS have direct positive impacts on green innovation. Moreover, social networks play the mediator in enhancing the innovation towards green agricultural production.

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Socioeconomic impacts of urban restoration in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Cited by 7 publications

References 29 publications

Solution to what? Global assessment of nature-based solutions, urban challenges, and outcomes

Solution to what? Global assessment of nature-based solutions, urban challenges, and outcomes

Exploring the Driving Forces of Vegetation Greening on the Loess Plateau at the County Scale

Green innovation in agriculture development: the impact of environment awareness, technology spillover, and social networks

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