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Volume 3 Issue 9, September 2020

Forest subsidies in Chile

Given the benefits of forests, there are growing efforts to restore lost ones. This study finds that between 1986 and 2011, Chile’s forest subsidies encouraged expansion of plantations with exotic trees at the expense of native forest, likely reducing biodiversity and not increasing aboveground carbon storage.

See Heilmayr et al.

Image: Robert Heilmayr, University of California, Santa Barbara. Cover design: Valentina Monaco

Editorial

  • Sustainable interventions to manage wildfires are needed but require understanding the causes of such events.

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Comment & Opinion

  • Biodiversity research is replete with scientific studies depicting future trajectories of decline that have failed to mobilize transformative change. Imagination and creativity can foster new ways to address longstanding problems to create better futures for people and the planet.

    • Carina Wyborn
    • Federico Davila
    • Emma Woods
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  • Jon Hutton and Melanie Ryan, respectively the Director and the Head of Programme of the Luc Hoffmann Institute, tell Nature Sustainability about the making of the Biodiversity Revisited project.

    • Monica Contestabile
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  • Political pressure on the creation and use of scientific evidence to support environmental approvals for the Adani coal mine has undermined the legitimacy of these approvals. We need to harness the power of law more effectively to protect the independence and rigour of scientific processes, and enable transparent consideration of the evidence.

    • Erin O’Donnell
    • Rebecca Nelson
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Reviews

  • For seafood, concerns about food security often clash with those about sustainability. This Perspective proposes the reconciling concept of ‘sustainable commoditization’ and identifies actions to catalyse this for seafood in the Global South.

    • Ben Belton
    • Thomas Reardon
    • David Zilberman
    Perspective
  • Culture influences low-carbon energy transitions and as a result should be considered in the design of relevant policies. Focusing on a selection of low-carbon technologies and behavioural practices, this Review highlights the role of culture with respect to different dimensions of sustainability.

    • Benjamin K. Sovacool
    • Steve Griffiths
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