‘You can’t be green if you’re in the red’: Local discourses on the production-biodiversity intersection in a mixed farming area in south-eastern Australia

Schaal, Tamara; Jacobs, Anna; Leventon, Julia; Scheele, Ben C.; Lindenmayer, David B.; Hanspach, Jan

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106306

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“…For example, in an agricultural land management context, there will be a need to recruit sufficient numbers of landholders prepared to participate actively in biodiversity markets. This will require work to identify landholder motivations for being involved in such programmes (Selinske et al 2019;Schaal et al 2022). There also will be a need to consider the design, implementation and constant refinement of the institutions which operate and regulate biodiversity markets (White et al 2021).…”

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The business of biodiversity – What is needed for biodiversity markets to work

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Scheele²,

Young³

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Eco Management Restoration

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Summary There has been considerable discussion in Australia about market‐based initiatives with the potential to bring effective incentives and greater investment for farmers and other land managers to promote biodiversity conservation. These initiatives include biodiversity trading markets (also termed the nature repair market), stewardship schemes, certification programmes, sustainability frameworks, and natural capital accounting. We welcome these discussions and believe these initiatives would be true advances if they bring much greater investment in conservation and stronger protection and recovery of biodiversity. However, we also have major concerns about the integrity and scientific credibility of some of these initiatives. In this article, we discuss why it is critical that such initiatives both carefully define biodiversity and determine what elements of biodiversity are to be targeted in conservation efforts. We also discuss the fundamental importance of appropriate and agreed biodiversity metrics, as well as the critical need for rigorous, well designed and independent biodiversity monitoring. To ensure that initiatives like biodiversity trading markets, stewardship schemes, certification programmes, sustainability frameworks and natural capital accounting are rigorous, non‐corruptible and actually deliver what they are intended to do, they will need to be underpinned by appropriate programme designs. This includes robust and transparent governance structures, high‐quality monitoring and timely reporting of key metrics.

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“…2019; Schaal et al . 2022). There also will be a need to consider the design, implementation and constant refinement of the institutions which operate and regulate biodiversity markets (White et al .…”

Section: Moving Forwardmentioning

confidence: 99%

The business of biodiversity – What is needed for biodiversity markets to work

Lindenmayer¹,

Scheele²,

Young³

et al. 2023

Eco Management Restoration

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Using the three horizons approach to explore pathways towards positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity

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In light of the global challenges of the Anthropocene, including biodiversity loss, there are increasing calls for positive, inspirational futures to motivate action and help steer away from current, largely unsustainable trajectories. The three horizons framework is an approach in future studies that engages with normative futures and helps develop pathways towards them. However, this approach has not been applied to explore opportunities for biodiversity conservation with farming communities. We developed a template to apply the three horizons framework in combination with storytelling to explore positive futures for agricultural landscapes with rich biodiversity. We then applied this method over two workshops with a rural community in a farming landscape of south-eastern Australia facing typical contemporary challenges of an ageing population, climate change, biodiversity loss and global market uncertainty. In the workshops, six pathways for change were developed. We unpack these narratives of change to contrast problem framings, future aspirations and mechanisms of change and discuss implications for conservation. We discuss our approach to integrating diverse perspectives and values, creating actionable knowledge and highlight the role of governance and policy to support individual and collective agency. We conclude that the three horizons approach has the potential to create actionable knowledge through locally meaningful narratives of change, and thus influence priorities and empower local action. For lasting on-ground change, leadership and effective cross-scale governance is required.

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