Realizing landscape restoration: Enabling transformative change of land-use

Informations

Funding country

Norway

Acronym

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URL

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Start date

1/1/2021

End date

12/31/2026

Budget

1,399,863 EUR

Fundings

Abstract

Habitat destruction and land-use put areas and species under heavy pressure, with serious impact on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, food production, climate, distribution of resources, migration and human health. A core message from IPBES is the need to reverse land degradation, and a call for transformative change in the use of land. Both IPBES and IPCC point at massive upscaling of ecosystem restoration (the 15% target) to combat land-degradation and climate change, in order to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services, to reduce carbon emissions and ensure human well-being. The UN member states have declared the Decade for Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) to realize the benefits of restoration towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. A number of challenges must be solved on the way towards massiv upscaling of restoration for the integration of nature, society, and stakeholders. Scientific data and experience from restration are needed for future management. RESCAPE will develop a framework for how restoration can be integrated in future lan-use management. By using retrospective case projects RESCAPE will identify drivers and barriers for future restoration. RESCAPE will contribute to improved understanding of connection between ecology, society, politics and econoy in upscaling of restoraion. Output from RESCAPE will be development of tools, models and processes for WHERE, WHAT and HOW to restore.