How to make land use policy decisions: Integrating science and economics to deliver connected climate, biodiversity, and food objectives.

ABSTRACT: Land use change is crucial to addressing the existential threats of climate change and biodiversity loss while enhancing food security [M. Zurek et al., Science 376, 1416-1421 (2022)]. The interconnected and spatially varying nature of the impacts of land use change means that these challenges must be addressed simultaneously [H.-O. Pörtner et al., Science 380, eabl4881 (2023)]. However, governments commonly focus on single issues, incentivizing land use change via "Flat-Rate" subsidies offering constant per hectare payments, uptake of which is determined by the economic circumstances of landowners rather than the integrated environmental outcomes that will be delivered [G. Q. Bull et al., Forest Policy Econ. 9, 13-31 (2006)].

SUBMITTER: Bateman IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626137 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature