Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well - being in Latin America

• Autores: Aguiar, Sebastián; Mastrángelo, Matías Enrique; Brancalion, Pedro H. S.; Meli, Paula
• Año de publicación: 2021
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Fuente: Ecosystem and People; Vol.17, no.1; 523-538; https://taylorandfrancis.com
• Materia: DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FOREST RESTORATION; LARGE-SCALE RESTORATION; LIVELIHOODS; REFORESTATION; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; TREE PLANTING
• Institución: Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía

Fil: Aguiar, Sebastián. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Agronomía. Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiológicas y Ecológicas Vinculadas a la Agricultura (IFEVA). Laboratorio de Análisis Regional y Teledetección (LART) Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Mastrángelo, Matías Enrique. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Unidad Integrada Balcarce. Grupo de Estudio de Agroecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales (GEAP). Balcarce, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fil: Brancalion, Pedro H. S. University of São Paulo. “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture. Department of Forest Sciences. Piracicaba, SP, Brazil.
Fil: Meli, Paula. Universidad de la Frontera. Departamento de Ciencias Forestales. Temuco, Chile.
Tree planting and reforestation are currently in the spotlight as strategies for solving global environmental degradation. Many ongoing large - scale initiatives have proposed restoring millions of hectares and planting a trillion trees to solve climate change and biodiversity loss. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is one of the approaches most frequently employed to support these initiatives. Currently, many FLR initiatives are implemented in developing countries through a top-down approach, not fully anchored to the social-ecological characteristics of landscapes (e.g. land use and tenure, values of local peoples, local livelihoods), and sometimes relegating human well - being to a secondary concern. Therefore, issues of social equity and legitimacy might hamper the effectiveness of FLR initiatives and projects regarding their environmental outcomes. In this perspective article, we present four challenges to better link FLR and human well-being in Latin America: (1) the high dependence of local communities and countries’ economies on natural resources, (2) conflicts over land tenure and access, (3) divergence in perceptions and values, and (4) the fragility of public institutions and policies. After describing these interrelated challenges, we discuss how to tackle them by implementing instruments and approaches recently organized under the concept of transformative governance. Finding an equitable and legitimate balance between global interests and urgency and increasing local well - being is the main challenge of FLR in Latin America, for which transformative governance is critical.
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