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Meeting global land restoration and protection targets: What would the world look like in 2050?
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“However, increasing forest areas also led to the contraction and further intensification of cropland and pastureland, in some scenarios causing negative impacts on many carbon and biodiversity hotspots in the Americas, India, and Indonesia due to land-use displacement (Section 4.2).”
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“They found that meeting these targets would require an increase in global tree cover of 4 million km² that would increase forest carbon stocks by 50 Gt and protect 28% of the terrestrial surface with high biodiversity and carbon values.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wolff, S., Schrammeijer, E. A., Schulp, C. J. E., & Verburg, P. H.
- Affiliations
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Wolff, Sarah
- Venue
- Global Environmental Change
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-09
- Volume
- 52
- Pages
- 259-272
- ISSN
- 0959-3780 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2888961749
- Cited by
- 130
- References
- 54
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 17 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 15
- FWCI
- 6.34
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Global Environmental Change (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- European Research Council (311819)
- European Commission (603416, LUC4C, 308393)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Keywords
- land restoration, land system change, land cover change, tree cover, forest carbon stocks, cropland expansion, cropland intensification, biodiversity hotspots, carbon storage, Sustainable Development Goals, Convention on Biological Diversity, UNCCD, Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, food production demand, land use policy
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