The socio-ecological Nexus+ approach used by the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change

Araújo, Moacyr; Ometto, Jean Pierre; Rodrigues-Filho, Saulo; Bursztyn, Marcel; Lindoso, Diego; Litre, Gabriela; Gaivizzo, Larisa Ho Bech; Ferreira, Julia Lopes; Reis, Rafael Moraes; Assad, Eduardo Delgado

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2019.08.005

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“…Climate-related issues are currently central to any major analytical sustainability framework, and it not surprising to see attempts to make climate a fourth node of WEF-Nexus. A recent effort focuses on climate vulnerability and proposes that balancing the WEF securities requires a fourth pillar, social-ecological security 65 . This modified framework, based on case study research in the Brazilian semi-arid region, represents an important advance in expanding WEF-Nexus but remains detached from forest policy agendas.…”

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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: Forest Security Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

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“…Unreasonable utilization of natural resources has led to contradictions between natural capital supply-demand in China (Kaczan, et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2018). Some environmental issues associated with climate anomalies, resources exhaustion, and water security have already played serious impacts on China's natural ecosystems and human living environments (Araujo et al, 2019), which forced the society to re-examine the traditional concept of development which focuses on economic growth.…”

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Fairness analysis and compensation strategy in the Triangle of Central China driven by water-carbon-ecological footprints

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et al. 2021

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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This study proposes water-carbon-ecological footprints to form footprint family indicators for identifying the ecological compensation and regional development equilibrium in the Triangle of Central China (TOCC). The occupation of natural capital stock and flow consumption can be illustrated through a three-dimensional ecological footprint model, and Gini coefficient is integrated into the evaluation framework for fairness measurement from various aspects.Quantificational ecological compensation standards can be given with concerns of ecological resource conversion efficiency and willingness to pay indicators. Results reveal that there exit rising trends in ecological and carbon footprints in the TOCC from 2000 to 2015, while its water footprint presents a fluctuating trend. A majority of average Gini coefficients exceed the warning value (i.e., 0.4) under different footprints, implying a relatively poor overall fairness of regional development. In terms of water footprint, the relatively higher compensation expenses exist in Jingmen, Xiangtan, and Yichun, while Yichang, Zhuzhou, and Fuzhou have higher received compensation values as compared with other cities. When it comes to carbon footprint, Wuhan, Loudi, and Xinyu should pay higher compensation expenses due to their overuse of biological resources. The highest amounts of compensation expense appear in Nanchang and Wuhan from the perspective of ecological footprint.

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“…Bio-Environmental baselines and time series represent global trends and local pressures that can be evaluated against natural variation for policy and decision-making at many levels (Muelbert et al, 2019). Integrative scenarios, combining environmental, socioeconomic and health sciences, such as the Nexus method (Howells et al, 2013), has been successfully applied to climate and fisheries in the Humboldt Current System (Garteizgogeascoa et al, 2020), in the assessment of climate vulnerability in Brazil (Araujo et al, 2019), and in the International Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) programs described in Muelbert et al (2019) and detailed for LAC in Table S2.…”

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The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate in Latin America: Knowledge Gaps and the Urgency to Translate Science Into Action

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Climate Change hazards to social-ecological systems are well-documented and the time to act is now. The IPCC-SROCC used the best available scientific knowledge to identify paths for effective adaptation and mitigation of climate change impacts on the ocean and cryosphere. Despite all the evidence highlighted by SROCC and the key role of the ocean and cryosphere for climate change at all levels, Latin America (LA) faces challenges to take effective action mostly due to socio-economic vulnerability, political instability and overall technical capacities. Countries have adopted diverse actions as the information needed by policy makers has been made available, not necessarily in accessible and inclusive ways. Regional imbalance in economic development, technological level, capacity development, societal involvement, and governmental oversight have contributed to skewed geographical and technological gaps of knowledge on key ecosystems and specific areas preventing effective climate actions/solutions. We analyze the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) from the region as proxies to the incorporation of IPCC recommendations. The gaps and opportunities for the uptake of ocean and climate science to political decision making is discussed as five key aspects: (i) climate assessment information and regional policies, (ii) knowledge production, (iii) knowledge accessibility, (iv) knowledge impact to policy, and (v) long term monitoring for decision making. We advocate that the uptake of SROCC findings in LA policies can be enhanced by: (a) embracing local realities and incorporating local, traditional and indigenous knowledge; (b) empowering locals to convey local knowledge to global assessments and adapt findings to local realities; (c) enhancing regional research capabilities; and (d) securing long-term sustainable ocean observations. Local and regional participation in knowledge production and provision enhances communication pathways, climate literacy and engagement which are key for effective action to be reflected in governance. Currently, the lack of accessible and inclusive information at the local level hampers the overall understanding, integration and engagement of the society to mitigate climate effects, perpetuates regional heterogeneity and threatens the efforts to reverse the course of climate change in LA. Local researchers should be empowered, encouraged, rewarded and better included in global climate-ocean scientific assessments.

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The socio-ecological Nexus+ approach used by the Brazilian Research Network on Global Climate Change

Cited by 16 publications

References 21 publications

Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus

Fairness analysis and compensation strategy in the Triangle of Central China driven by water-carbon-ecological footprints

The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate in Latin America: Knowledge Gaps and the Urgency to Translate Science Into Action

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