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Balancing natural forest regrowth and tree planting to ensure social fairness and compliance with environmental policies

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Autor(es):
Gastauer, Markus [1] ; Miazaki, Angela Silva [2] ; Crouzeilles, Renato [3, 4, 5] ; Tavares, Paulo Andre [6] ; Lino, Eric D. S. M. [3] ; Rodrigues, Ricardo Ribeiro [7]
Número total de Autores: 6
Afiliação do(s) autor(es):
[1] Inst Tecnol Vale, Belem, Para - Brazil
[2] Univ Estado Minas Gerais, Posgrad Ciencias Ambientais, Frutal - Brazil
[3] Int Inst Sustainabil, Rio De Janeiro - Brazil
[4] Int Inst Sustainabil Australia, Canberra, ACT - Australia
[5] Univ Veiga de Almeida, Ciencias Meio Ambiente, Rio De Janeiro - Brazil
[6] Univ Sao Paulo, Coll Agr Luiz de Queiroz, Dept Soil Sci, Piracicaba - Brazil
[7] Univ Sao Paulo, Coll Agr Luiz de Queiroz, Dept Biol Sci, Piracicaba - Brazil
Número total de Afiliações: 7
Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
Fonte: JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY; v. 58, n. 11 NOV 2021.
Citações Web of Science: 1
Resumo

The environmental benefits and lower implementation costs of (assisted) natural forest regrowth (NFR) compared to tree planting qualify it as a viable strategy to scale up forest restoration. However, NFR is not suitable in all places, because the potential for forest regeneration depends on the socio-environmental context and differs greatly over space and time. Therefore, it is critical to quantify the potential contribution of NFR for reaching forest restoration targets and complying with environmental policies. Here, we quantify the socio-environmental consequences of NFR by considering four targets differing in restored area in the Atlantic Forest (6, 8, 15 and 22 Mha). We quantified the compliance with environmental policies, expected distribution of natural and restored vegetation within the biome and social fairness (distribution of restoration efforts and costs within small, medium and large-sized properties) of two hypothetical forest restoration scenarios. We show that large-scale forest restoration prioritizing the areas with the highest potential for NFR (Scenario I) allows us to comply with one-third of the current environmental debt in the Atlantic Forest. Furthermore, this scenario disproportionately burdens specific types of land use, increases socioeconomic inequalities and concentrates restoration activities in regions in which the natural vegetation cover is already high. By contrast, Scenario II-eradicating the environmental debt that results from environmental policies, then prioritizing areas with the lowest overall restoration costs until reaching the restoration targets-is socially fairer and maximizes compliance with environmental policies. Its outcomes are more homogeneously distributed among counties and small, medium and large-sized properties from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Despite doubling the implementation costs, the lower overall restoration costs in Scenario II result from significantly lower opportunity costs than in Scenario I. Synthesis and application. The environmental, social and economic outputs of large-scale forest restoration in the Atlantic Forest can be maximized when NFR and tree planting are balanced (Scenario II). To achieve compliance with forest restoration commitments, we thus advocate for the site-specific selection of the best forest restoration strategy to guarantee social fairness and compliance with environmental policies at minimum overall restoration costs. (AU)

Processo FAPESP: 13/50718-5 - Restauração ecológica de florestas ciliares, de florestas nativas de produção econômica e de fragmentos florestais degradados (em APP e RL), com base na ecologia de restauração de ecossistemas de referência, visando testar cientificamente os preceitos do Novo Código Florestal Brasileiro
Beneficiário:Ricardo Ribeiro Rodrigues
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa BIOTA - Temático
Processo FAPESP: 16/17680-2 - Áreas prioritárias para compensação de Reserva Legal: pesquisa para o desenvolvimento de uma ferramenta para auxílio à tomada de decisão e transparência no processo de implementação do Programa de Regularização Ambiental (PRA) no estado de São Paulo
Beneficiário:Gerd Sparovek
Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Programa BIOTA - Temático