Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot

Autores
Law, Elizabeth A.; Macchi, Leandro; Baumann, Mathias; Decarre, Julieta; Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio; Levers, Christian; Mastrangelo, Matías Enrique; Murray, Francisco; Müller, Daniel; Piquer‐Rodriguez, María; Torres, Ricardo; Wilson, Kerrie A.; Kuemmerle, Tobias
Año de publicación
2021
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inglés
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artículo
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versión publicada
Descripción
Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly in the world's rapidly disappearing tropical and subtropical dry forests. Pathways to mitigate these trade-offs are often unclear, as well as how deforestation or different policies alter the option space of available pathways. Using a spatial optimization framework based on linear programming, we develop a landscape-scale possibility frontier describing trade-offs between agricultural profit, biodiversity, and carbon stock for the Argentinean Dry Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot. We use this framework to assess how current land-use zoning, as well as past and future land-use-trajectories, alter the option space to minimize trade-offs between biodiversity, carbon, and agriculture. Our analyses yield four major insights. First, we found substantial co-benefits between biodiversity and carbon, yet strong trade-offs of both with agriculture. Second, development according to the current zoning could lead to highly suboptimal socio-ecological outcomes; our analysis pinpoints how this zoning could be improved. Third, high landscape-scale multifunctionality can be achieved using different land-use strategies, but maintaining >40% of forest is essential in all of them, and silvopasture systems appear to be central for achieving high overall multifunctionality. Finally, our results suggest the window of opportunity is closing rapidly: recent land-use changes since 2000 have rapidly moved the Chaco within the option space, with forest extent declining towards critical thresholds for maintaining balanced, multifunctional landscapes. Our results emphasize that the time for sustainability planning in the Chaco is now. More broadly, we show how multi-criteria optimization can describe dynamic trade-offs between agriculture and the environment at landscape and regional scales. This can help to identify land-system tipping points that, once crossed, would inhibit more sustainable futures, and policies to avoid such potential traps.
Instituto de Recursos Biológicos
Fil: Law, Elizabeth A. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania
Fil: Law, Elizabeth A. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; Noruega
Fil: Macchi, Leandro. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania
Fil: Macchi, Leandro. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina
Fil: Macchi, Leandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina
Fil: Baumann, Mathias. Humboldt-University. Geography Department; Alemania.
Fil: Decarre, Julieta. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; Argentina
Fil: Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; Argentina
Fil: Levers, Christian. Humboldt-University. Geography Department; Alemania.
Fil: Levers, Christian. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Department of Environmental Geography. Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM); Países Bajos
Fil: Mastrangelo, Matias Enrique. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Grupo de Estudio de Agroecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales; Argentina.
Fil: Mastrangelo, Matias Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Grupo de Estudio de Agroecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales; Argentina.
Fil: Murray, Francisco. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Luis. Agencia de Extensión Rural San Luis; Argentina
Fil: Murray, Francisco. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Murray, Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Müller, Daniel. Humboldt-University Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania.
Fil: Müller, Daniel. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies; Alemania
Fil: Müller, Daniel. Humboldt-University Berlin. Integrative Research Institute for Transformations in Human Environment Systems; Alemania
Fil: Piquer Rodriguez, María. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania
Fil: Piquer Rodriguez, María. Freie Universität Berlin. Lateinamerika-Institut; Alemania
Fil: Torres, Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal ; Argentina.
Fil: Torres, Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal ; Argentina.
Fil: Wilson, Kerrie A. Queensland University of Technology; Australia
Fil: Kuemmerle, Tobias. Humboldt-University Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania.
Fil: Kuemmerle, Tobias. Humboldt-University Berlin. Integrative Research Institute for Transformations in Human Environment Systems; Alemania
Fuente
Biological Conservation 262 : 109310 (October 2021)
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Medio Ambiente
Deforestación
Intensificación
América del Sur
Agriculture
Environment
Deforestation
Intensification
South America
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spelling Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspotLaw, Elizabeth A.Macchi, LeandroBaumann, MathiasDecarre, JulietaGavier Pizarro, Gregorio IgnacioLevers, ChristianMastrangelo, Matías EnriqueMurray, FranciscoMüller, DanielPiquer‐Rodriguez, MaríaTorres, RicardoWilson, Kerrie A.Kuemmerle, TobiasAgriculturaMedio AmbienteDeforestaciónIntensificaciónAmérica del SurAgricultureEnvironmentDeforestationIntensificationSouth AmericaStrong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly in the world's rapidly disappearing tropical and subtropical dry forests. Pathways to mitigate these trade-offs are often unclear, as well as how deforestation or different policies alter the option space of available pathways. Using a spatial optimization framework based on linear programming, we develop a landscape-scale possibility frontier describing trade-offs between agricultural profit, biodiversity, and carbon stock for the Argentinean Dry Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot. We use this framework to assess how current land-use zoning, as well as past and future land-use-trajectories, alter the option space to minimize trade-offs between biodiversity, carbon, and agriculture. Our analyses yield four major insights. First, we found substantial co-benefits between biodiversity and carbon, yet strong trade-offs of both with agriculture. Second, development according to the current zoning could lead to highly suboptimal socio-ecological outcomes; our analysis pinpoints how this zoning could be improved. Third, high landscape-scale multifunctionality can be achieved using different land-use strategies, but maintaining >40% of forest is essential in all of them, and silvopasture systems appear to be central for achieving high overall multifunctionality. Finally, our results suggest the window of opportunity is closing rapidly: recent land-use changes since 2000 have rapidly moved the Chaco within the option space, with forest extent declining towards critical thresholds for maintaining balanced, multifunctional landscapes. Our results emphasize that the time for sustainability planning in the Chaco is now. More broadly, we show how multi-criteria optimization can describe dynamic trade-offs between agriculture and the environment at landscape and regional scales. This can help to identify land-system tipping points that, once crossed, would inhibit more sustainable futures, and policies to avoid such potential traps.Instituto de Recursos BiológicosFil: Law, Elizabeth A. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; AlemaniaFil: Law, Elizabeth A. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; NoruegaFil: Macchi, Leandro. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; AlemaniaFil: Macchi, Leandro. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Instituto de Ecología Regional; ArgentinaFil: Macchi, Leandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; ArgentinaFil: Baumann, Mathias. Humboldt-University. Geography Department; Alemania.Fil: Decarre, Julieta. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; ArgentinaFil: Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; ArgentinaFil: Levers, Christian. Humboldt-University. Geography Department; Alemania.Fil: Levers, Christian. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Department of Environmental Geography. Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM); Países BajosFil: Mastrangelo, Matias Enrique. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Grupo de Estudio de Agroecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales; Argentina.Fil: Mastrangelo, Matias Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Grupo de Estudio de Agroecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales; Argentina.Fil: Murray, Francisco. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Luis. Agencia de Extensión Rural San Luis; ArgentinaFil: Murray, Francisco. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales; ArgentinaFil: Murray, Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales; ArgentinaFil: Müller, Daniel. Humboldt-University Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania.Fil: Müller, Daniel. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies; AlemaniaFil: Müller, Daniel. Humboldt-University Berlin. Integrative Research Institute for Transformations in Human Environment Systems; AlemaniaFil: Piquer Rodriguez, María. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; AlemaniaFil: Piquer Rodriguez, María. Freie Universität Berlin. Lateinamerika-Institut; AlemaniaFil: Torres, Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal ; Argentina.Fil: Torres, Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal ; Argentina.Fil: Wilson, Kerrie A. Queensland University of Technology; AustraliaFil: Kuemmerle, Tobias. Humboldt-University Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania.Fil: Kuemmerle, Tobias. Humboldt-University Berlin. 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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
title Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
spellingShingle Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
Law, Elizabeth A.
Agricultura
Medio Ambiente
Deforestación
Intensificación
América del Sur
Agriculture
Environment
Deforestation
Intensification
South America
title_short Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
title_full Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
title_fullStr Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
title_full_unstemmed Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
title_sort Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Law, Elizabeth A.
Macchi, Leandro
Baumann, Mathias
Decarre, Julieta
Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio
Levers, Christian
Mastrangelo, Matías Enrique
Murray, Francisco
Müller, Daniel
Piquer‐Rodriguez, María
Torres, Ricardo
Wilson, Kerrie A.
Kuemmerle, Tobias
author Law, Elizabeth A.
author_facet Law, Elizabeth A.
Macchi, Leandro
Baumann, Mathias
Decarre, Julieta
Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio
Levers, Christian
Mastrangelo, Matías Enrique
Murray, Francisco
Müller, Daniel
Piquer‐Rodriguez, María
Torres, Ricardo
Wilson, Kerrie A.
Kuemmerle, Tobias
author_role author
author2 Macchi, Leandro
Baumann, Mathias
Decarre, Julieta
Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio
Levers, Christian
Mastrangelo, Matías Enrique
Murray, Francisco
Müller, Daniel
Piquer‐Rodriguez, María
Torres, Ricardo
Wilson, Kerrie A.
Kuemmerle, Tobias
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Agricultura
Medio Ambiente
Deforestación
Intensificación
América del Sur
Agriculture
Environment
Deforestation
Intensification
South America
topic Agricultura
Medio Ambiente
Deforestación
Intensificación
América del Sur
Agriculture
Environment
Deforestation
Intensification
South America
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly in the world's rapidly disappearing tropical and subtropical dry forests. Pathways to mitigate these trade-offs are often unclear, as well as how deforestation or different policies alter the option space of available pathways. Using a spatial optimization framework based on linear programming, we develop a landscape-scale possibility frontier describing trade-offs between agricultural profit, biodiversity, and carbon stock for the Argentinean Dry Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot. We use this framework to assess how current land-use zoning, as well as past and future land-use-trajectories, alter the option space to minimize trade-offs between biodiversity, carbon, and agriculture. Our analyses yield four major insights. First, we found substantial co-benefits between biodiversity and carbon, yet strong trade-offs of both with agriculture. Second, development according to the current zoning could lead to highly suboptimal socio-ecological outcomes; our analysis pinpoints how this zoning could be improved. Third, high landscape-scale multifunctionality can be achieved using different land-use strategies, but maintaining >40% of forest is essential in all of them, and silvopasture systems appear to be central for achieving high overall multifunctionality. Finally, our results suggest the window of opportunity is closing rapidly: recent land-use changes since 2000 have rapidly moved the Chaco within the option space, with forest extent declining towards critical thresholds for maintaining balanced, multifunctional landscapes. Our results emphasize that the time for sustainability planning in the Chaco is now. More broadly, we show how multi-criteria optimization can describe dynamic trade-offs between agriculture and the environment at landscape and regional scales. This can help to identify land-system tipping points that, once crossed, would inhibit more sustainable futures, and policies to avoid such potential traps.
Instituto de Recursos Biológicos
Fil: Law, Elizabeth A. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania
Fil: Law, Elizabeth A. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research; Noruega
Fil: Macchi, Leandro. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania
Fil: Macchi, Leandro. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina
Fil: Macchi, Leandro. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina
Fil: Baumann, Mathias. Humboldt-University. Geography Department; Alemania.
Fil: Decarre, Julieta. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; Argentina
Fil: Gavier Pizarro, Gregorio Ignacio. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Instituto de Recursos Biológicos; Argentina
Fil: Levers, Christian. Humboldt-University. Geography Department; Alemania.
Fil: Levers, Christian. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Department of Environmental Geography. Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM); Países Bajos
Fil: Mastrangelo, Matias Enrique. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias. Grupo de Estudio de Agroecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales; Argentina.
Fil: Mastrangelo, Matias Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Grupo de Estudio de Agroecosistemas y Paisajes Rurales; Argentina.
Fil: Murray, Francisco. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Luis. Agencia de Extensión Rural San Luis; Argentina
Fil: Murray, Francisco. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Murray, Francisco. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Grupo de Estudios Ambientales; Argentina
Fil: Müller, Daniel. Humboldt-University Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania.
Fil: Müller, Daniel. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies; Alemania
Fil: Müller, Daniel. Humboldt-University Berlin. Integrative Research Institute for Transformations in Human Environment Systems; Alemania
Fil: Piquer Rodriguez, María. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania
Fil: Piquer Rodriguez, María. Freie Universität Berlin. Lateinamerika-Institut; Alemania
Fil: Torres, Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal ; Argentina.
Fil: Torres, Ricardo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Diversidad y Ecología Animal ; Argentina.
Fil: Wilson, Kerrie A. Queensland University of Technology; Australia
Fil: Kuemmerle, Tobias. Humboldt-University Berlin. Geography Department; Alemania.
Fil: Kuemmerle, Tobias. Humboldt-University Berlin. Integrative Research Institute for Transformations in Human Environment Systems; Alemania
description Strong trade-offs between agriculture and the environment occur in deforestation frontiers, particularly in the world's rapidly disappearing tropical and subtropical dry forests. Pathways to mitigate these trade-offs are often unclear, as well as how deforestation or different policies alter the option space of available pathways. Using a spatial optimization framework based on linear programming, we develop a landscape-scale possibility frontier describing trade-offs between agricultural profit, biodiversity, and carbon stock for the Argentinean Dry Chaco, a global deforestation hotspot. We use this framework to assess how current land-use zoning, as well as past and future land-use-trajectories, alter the option space to minimize trade-offs between biodiversity, carbon, and agriculture. Our analyses yield four major insights. First, we found substantial co-benefits between biodiversity and carbon, yet strong trade-offs of both with agriculture. Second, development according to the current zoning could lead to highly suboptimal socio-ecological outcomes; our analysis pinpoints how this zoning could be improved. Third, high landscape-scale multifunctionality can be achieved using different land-use strategies, but maintaining >40% of forest is essential in all of them, and silvopasture systems appear to be central for achieving high overall multifunctionality. Finally, our results suggest the window of opportunity is closing rapidly: recent land-use changes since 2000 have rapidly moved the Chaco within the option space, with forest extent declining towards critical thresholds for maintaining balanced, multifunctional landscapes. Our results emphasize that the time for sustainability planning in the Chaco is now. More broadly, we show how multi-criteria optimization can describe dynamic trade-offs between agriculture and the environment at landscape and regional scales. This can help to identify land-system tipping points that, once crossed, would inhibit more sustainable futures, and policies to avoid such potential traps.
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