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Title
Assessing vulnerability and adaptability: Cost-effective conservation incorporates the human dimension
Author(s)
Butt, N.;Watson, J. E. M.;Iwamura, T.
Published
2014
Publisher
Decision Point
Abstract
Until now, most planning assessments of how future climate change will affect our land and seascapes have been incomplete as they haven’t properly factored in how those landscapes have already been modified by human activities, such as land clearing. Too often, assessments that have been done on future climate vulnerability have looked at the Earth as a blank slate, assuming that the level of warming a landscape or species faces is the only thing that determines future persistence. In fact, the planet has been modified in vastly different ways wherever humans have settled. We found that when human land-use-change data are combined with future projections of climate changes, the results are very different to previous climate vulnerability assessments.
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