Ecological restoration of agricultural land can improve its contribution to economic development.

ABSTRACT: Given the negative environmental impacts of intensive agriculture, there is an urgent need to reduce the impact of food production on biodiversity. Ecological restoration of farmland could potentially contribute to this goal. While the positive impacts of ecological restoration on biodiversity are well established, less evidence is available regarding impacts on economic development and employment. Potentially, prospects for economic development could be enhanced by ecological restoration though increased provision of ecosystem services, on which some economic activity depends. Here we examined this issue through the development of contrasting land use scenarios for the county of Dorset, southern England. Two scenarios of future agricultural expansion were compared with two scenarios of la

SUBMITTER: Newton AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7935295 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature