The importance of protected areas in mitigating climate change and conserving ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean

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dc.contributor.authorIbarra Eliessetch Jose Tomas
dc.contributor.authorBonacic Salas Cristian
dc.contributor.authorConstanza, Arévalo
dc.contributor.authorLaker, Jerry
dc.contributor.editorMohamed Behnassi
dc.contributor.editorHimangana Gupta
dc.contributor.editorMirza Barjees Baig
dc.contributor.editorIjaz Rasool Noorka
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-14T14:29:06Z
dc.date.available2023-04-14T14:29:06Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.date.updated2023-04-13T19:25:06Z
dc.description.abstractBiodiversity conservation in a world under climate change is a significant challenge for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), which holds 60% of global terrestrial life. Six of the ten most biodiverse countries (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela) are in LAC, and biodiversity hotspots are well-represented along the region’s coasts and mainland. The region has the most significant areas of tropical forest and large portions of subtropical forests, temperate steppe, and subantarctic Patagonia. Protected areas offer opportunities to conserve unique biodiversity, provide ecosystem services, and mitigate climate change effects. LAC’s contribution to carbon capture, by protecting extensive forests and other natural ecosystems, is potentially opening tremendous economic opportunities under the green economy paradigm. This chapter describes the current status of protected areas in LAC and explains how this conservation mechanism should play a mitigation role. LAC’s protected areas cover almost all types of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, and their number is increasing in the region. Although protected areas mitigate the effects of climate change on biodiversity, climate change and traditional environmental problems like deforestation, mining, and agriculture affect the viability of protected areas. Thus, their expansion and connectivity throughout the region are crucial to combat climate change and biodiversity loss. Nature is also essential to the region’s biocultural diversity, including a miriad of complex cosmovisions and traditions. In LAC’s unique ecosystems, rich biodiversity is spatially correlated with rich cultural diversity, granting opportunity for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to lead experiences in managing protected areas in biologically and culturally diverse ecosystems of LAC.
dc.fuente.origenSIPA
dc.identifier.citationBonacic, C., Arévalo, C., Ibarra, J.T., Laker, J. (2022). The Importance of Protected Areas in Mitigating Climate Change and Conserving Ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean. In: Behnassi, M., Gupta, H., Barjees Baig, M., Noorka, I.R. (eds) The Food Security, Biodiversity, and Climate Nexus. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12586-7_3
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-031-12586-7_3
dc.identifier.eisbn9783031125867
dc.identifier.isbn9783031125850
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12586-7_3
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/66770
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Agronomía e Ingenieria Forestal; Bonacic Salas Cristian; 0000-0003-2175-076X; 100304
dc.information.autorucFacultad de Agronomía e Ingenieria Forestal; Ibarra Eliessetch Jose Tomas; 0000-0002-7705-3974; 120091
dc.language.isoen
dc.lugar.publicacionBerlín, Alemania
dc.nota.accesoContenido parcial
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofThe food security, biodiversity, and climate nexus
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectBiodiversity
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectConservation
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectProtected areas
dc.subjectSustainable development goals
dc.subject.ddc570
dc.subject.deweyBiologíaes_ES
dc.subject.ods13 Climate action
dc.subject.ods15 Life on land
dc.subject.odspa13 Acción por el clima
dc.subject.odspa15 Vida de ecosistemas terrestres
dc.titleThe importance of protected areas in mitigating climate change and conserving ecosystems in Latin America and the Caribbean
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sipa.codpersvinculados100304
sipa.codpersvinculados120091
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