Hotspots 2.0: Toward an integrated understanding of stressors and response options.

ABSTRACT: Integrated and transdisciplinary approaches are necessary in hotspots research where the intention is to influence policy and practice. Knowing that climate change will impact major ecosystem services and the sustainability of life support systems, a critical examination of the hotspot concept and approach is undertaken to pursue synergistic responses. Hotspots 2.0 embodies current thinking about planning towards multiple drivers of change and seeing human and natural systems as mutually inter-dependent and benefiting from integrated policy approaches. Such proposed adaptation interventions to inter-related stressors will complement biodiversity conservation, disaster risk reduction, and human well-being. Through a systematic review, we assess 114 relevant peer review cases to examine inte

SUBMITTER: Khan AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6486930 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature