Accelerating contributions of restoration ecology for enhancing natural climate solutions
Ecological restoration efforts protect and benefit the biota we value, contribute to clean air and water, and enhance human health and mental well-being. Such efforts, however, are futile unless we concurrently address the climate crisis. Many restoration actions implicitly or explicitly...
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Ecological restoration efforts protect and benefit the biota we value, contribute to clean air and water, and enhance human health and mental well-being. Such efforts, however, are futile unless we concurrently address the climate crisis. Many restoration actions implicitly or explicitly provide climate mitigation outcomes, and these need to be emphasized and prioritized. Local actions that collectively have global impacts need greater participation of academics, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders. Such actions will reduce the current knowing-versus-doing gap, speed up essential activities, and increase the spatial extent of restoration efforts that benefit climate solutions and provide community resilience to extreme climate events. All landscapes, regardless of the extent of human impacts, are potentially eligible for these actions. Priorities of management that are neutral or negative with respect to climate mitigation need to be reevaluated given the need and availability of similar actions that facilitate climate mitigation. If traditional management programs such as urban construction, tillage, landscaping, roads, trails, and weed control are subsumed within an enhanced climate solutions framework, restoration emerges as the common management theme. Of particular importance, programs that both repair and prepare for current and anticipated catastrophic climatic events deserve priority status. A relatively new paradigm created by land managers, the “Restore-Accept-Direct” model, provides a framework where conservation, human well-being, and enhanced climate solution outcomes can be simultaneously achieved. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7faadfc8bf734090827a49100bfa8a1d2025-08-20T03:06:31ZengAcademia.edu JournalsAcademia Biology2837-40102025-01-013110.20935/AcadBiol7502Accelerating contributions of restoration ecology for enhancing natural climate solutionsTimothy R. Seastedt0Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. Ecological restoration efforts protect and benefit the biota we value, contribute to clean air and water, and enhance human health and mental well-being. Such efforts, however, are futile unless we concurrently address the climate crisis. Many restoration actions implicitly or explicitly provide climate mitigation outcomes, and these need to be emphasized and prioritized. Local actions that collectively have global impacts need greater participation of academics, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders. Such actions will reduce the current knowing-versus-doing gap, speed up essential activities, and increase the spatial extent of restoration efforts that benefit climate solutions and provide community resilience to extreme climate events. All landscapes, regardless of the extent of human impacts, are potentially eligible for these actions. Priorities of management that are neutral or negative with respect to climate mitigation need to be reevaluated given the need and availability of similar actions that facilitate climate mitigation. If traditional management programs such as urban construction, tillage, landscaping, roads, trails, and weed control are subsumed within an enhanced climate solutions framework, restoration emerges as the common management theme. Of particular importance, programs that both repair and prepare for current and anticipated catastrophic climatic events deserve priority status. A relatively new paradigm created by land managers, the “Restore-Accept-Direct” model, provides a framework where conservation, human well-being, and enhanced climate solution outcomes can be simultaneously achieved.https://www.academia.edu/127233427/Accelerating_contributions_of_restoration_ecology_for_enhancing_natural_climate_solutions |
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