Climate Adaptation and Biodiversity Conservation
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land–Climate Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 July 2023) | Viewed by 42503
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Archaeology, Forensics, Geography, and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia
Interests: environmental governance; adaptive governance; Anthropocene; novel ecosystems; climate change; biodiversity conservation; institutional analysis; nature-based solutions; landscape ecology; restoration ecology; social-ecological systems; resilience
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The intensity and pace of environmental and socio-economic change that characterise the Anthropocene have created unprecedented challenges for managing ecosystems. Not only have we yet to slow rates of biodiversity loss, but in many places around the world, the pace of extinction and ecosystem decline is accelerating, despite biodiversity loss already being well in excess of sustainable planetary boundaries. Climate change is expected to accelerate biodiversity loss and interact synergistically with other drivers (e.g., habitat loss and degradation, altered biogeochemical regimes, urbanisation), potentially leading to the transformation of ecosystems. This Special Issue will bring together research that provides insights into how ecosystems are changing, how we can expect them to change in the future, and how we might intervene through management, policy, and governance to more effectively adapt to climate change and conserve biodiversity. We welcome articles that fill critical knowledge gaps; offer innovative methods for understanding or managing these environmental challenges; or offer empirical case study examples relating to the science, management, and policy of climate change adaptation and biodiversity conservation.
In this Special Issue, we invite papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following topics:
- Understanding how climate change is currently affecting ecosystems, and how it is projected to do so in the future;
- Consideration of how management and ecological restoration may need to change to more effectively deal with climate change and other drivers of biodiversity loss;
- Evaluations of climate change and/or biodiversity policy and governance;
- Studies of governance or management effectiveness in these policy areas, particularly with respect to their influence on ecological, social, and economic outcomes;
- Methods for targeting drivers of biodiversity loss in complex social-ecological systems;
- Insights into the management of ecosystems that are characterised as novel, hybrid, or heavily modified by humans (including urban ecosystems);
- Analysis of nature-based solutions or other innovative tools for integrating biodiversity and climate change adaptation into land-use planning.
Dr. Sarah Clement
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biodiversity
- climate change adaptation
- Anthropocene
- social-ecological systems
- environmental governance
- adaptive capacity
- ecosystem change
- science-based policy
- nature-based solutions
- ecological restoration
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