ArticleBioscience2023
How Social Considerations Improve the Equity and Effectiveness of Ecosystem Restoration.
Article in Bioscience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- The impacts of biological invasions.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Social implications of the 30×30 global conservation target.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Large-Scale Forest Restoration Accompanied by Biodiversity Recovery in Costa Rica's Redistributive Payment for Ecosystem Service Program.Global change biology · 2026Article
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- Local Community Perspectives on the Role of Institutional Stakeholders in Advancing Forest Landscape Restoration in Ghana.Scientifica · 2026Article
- Unlocking private finance for nature: Addressing barriers and reframing risk-return dynamics.iScience · 2025Review
- Integrating belowground recovery into tropical forest restoration design and monitoring.Bioscience · 2025Article
- Policy principles for sustainable and just land systems.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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- Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Unveiling Global Narratives of Restoration Policy: Big Data Insights into Competing Framings and Implications.Geoforum; journal of physical, human, and regional geosciences · 2025Article
- Navigating data challenges in socioeconomic impact assessments of conservation regimes.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Review
- Conceptualizing social risk in relation to climate change and assisted ecosystem adaptation.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025Article
- Five ways seascape ecology can help to achieve marine restoration goals.Landscape ecology · 2025Review
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- An introduction to key ecological concepts, financial opportunities, and risks underpinning aspirations for nature positive.Bioscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Ecosystem restoration is an important means to address global sustainability challenges. However, scientific and policy discourse often overlooks the social processes that influence the equity and effectiveness of restoration interventions. In the present article, we outline how social processes that are critical to restoration equity and effectiveness can be better incorporated in restoration science and policy. Drawing from existing case studies, we show how projects that align with local people's preferences and are implemented through inclusive governance are more likely to lead to improved social, ecological, and environmental outcomes. To underscore the importance of social considerations in restoration, we overlay existing global restoration priority maps, population, and the Human Development Index (HDI) to show that approximately 1.4 billion people, disproportionately belonging to groups with low HDI, live in areas identified by previous studies as being of high restoration priority. We conclude with five action points for science and policy to promote equity-centered restoration.
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