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Research into land atmosphere interactions supports the sustainable development agenda
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- Garry Hayman, Benjamin Poulter, Sachin D. Ghude, Eleanor Blyth, Vinayak Sinha, Sally Archibald, Kirsti Ashworth, Victoria Barlow, Silvano Fares, Gregor Feig, Tetsuya Hiyama, Jiming Jin, Sirkku Juhola, Meehye Lee, Sebastian Leuzinger, Miguel D. Mahecha, Xianhong Meng, David Odee, Gemma Purser, Hisashi Sato, Pallavi Saxena, Valiyaveetil S. Semeena, Allison Steiner, Xuemei Wang, Stefan Wolff
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- Global Sustainability / Volume 7 / 2024
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- 14 February 2024, e12
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Non-technical summary
Greenhouse gas emissions and land use change – from deforestation, forest degradation, and agricultural intensification – are contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss. Important land-based strategies such as planting trees or growing bioenergy crops (with carbon capture and storage) are needed to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and to enhance biodiversity.
The integrated Land Ecosystems Atmospheric Processes Study (iLEAPS) is an international knowledge-exchange and capacity-building network, specializing in ecosystems and their role in controlling the exchange of water, energy and chemical compounds between the land surface and the atmosphere. We outline priority directions for land–atmosphere interaction research and its contribution to the sustainable development agenda.
Technical summaryGreenhouse-gas emissions from human activities and land use change (from deforestation, forest degradation, and agricultural intensification) are contributing to climate change and biodiversity loss. Afforestation, reforestation, or growing bioenergy crops (with carbon capture and storage) are important land-based strategies to achieve the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and to enhance biodiversity. The effectiveness of these actions depends on terrestrial ecosystems and their role in controlling or moderating the exchange of water, heat, and chemical compounds between the land surface and the atmosphere.
The integrated Land Ecosystems Atmospheric Processes Study (iLEAPS), a global research network of Future Earth, enables the international community to communicate and remain up to date with developments and concepts about terrestrial ecosystems and their role in global water, energy, and biogeochemical cycles. Covering critically important topics such as fire, forestry, wetlands, methane emissions, urban areas, pollution, and climate change, the iLEAPS Global Research Programme sits center stage for some of the most important environmental questions facing humanity. In this paper, we outline the new challenges and opportunities for land–atmosphere interaction research and its role in supporting the broader sustainable development agenda.
Social Media SummaryFuture directions for research into land–atmosphere interactions that supports the sustainable development agenda
3 - Conservation Translocations and the Law
- from Part II - Conservation Translocations: The Key Issues
- Edited by Martin J. Gaywood, University of the Highlands and Islands, John G. Ewen, Zoological Society of London, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Axel Moehrenschlager, IUCN SSC Conservation Translocation Specialist Group
- Foreword by Razan Al Mubarak
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- Conservation Translocations
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- 07 December 2022
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- 22 December 2022, pp 77-107
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Law can influence conservation translocations in two basic ways: it can play a supportive and/or a restrictive role. Regarding the first role, legislation can provide support, a mandate, and/or an obligation to consider or perform a translocation. This may involve both general obligations to conserve or restore certain species or ecosystems, as well as specific obligations concerning species reintroductions or other types of translocation. Regarding the second role, legislation can impose limitations on translocation possibilities and/or make translocations conditional on meeting certain requirements. Such limitations and conditions may follow from legislation on native species protection, area protection, invasive non-native species, disease, trade, animal welfare, and several other areas of law. Requirements of both types may flow from international and national law. The legal requirements that will apply to any projected conservation translocation will depend on the countries, areas, and species involved, and there may be significant differences between one project and the next. The applicable requirements may be easy to meet for some projects, and be prohibitive for others. It is crucial that a careful analysis of applicable domestic legislation is carried out in the early stages of any contemplated conservation translocation. Practitioners should also make themselves aware of the relevant international legislation to provide them with the wider legal context of their work, and to help them influence the development of future legislation.