Pedro H S Brancalion
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1750193 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pedro H S Brancalion |
| NOMBRES | Pedro H S |
| APELLIDO | Brancalion |
| FIRMA | BRANCALION P H S |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8245-4062 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Open letter
Despite growing investment in restoration, weak accountability and poor biodiversity monitoring mean many projects fail to achieve ecological recovery. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) offers a practical way to ensure that restoration finance delivers measurable gains for nature. By providing independent, site-based verification and engaging local experts, TGBS builds trust, transparency and equity in restoration practice. Its adoption cou…
Bioeconomic opportunities in restored tropical forests
Spatial predictors of landowners' engagement in the restoration of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Forest restoration can potentially contribute to multiple global sustainable development goals. Yet, little is known about the factors associated with local actors' choice to engage in restoration, limiting the development of effective scaling strategies. Our study examines the spatial socio‐ecological factors associated with landowners' engagement in forest restoration, documented by the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact in Brazil. We draw on Dif…
Dissecting forest transition
Forest Transition (FT) is a theoretical framework for understanding tree cover changes but often overlooks differences within countries, across forest types (e.g., second-growth forests, tree plantations replacing natural forests), regions, and climates. We quantified tropical tree cover dynamics across eight regions in four tropical countries, examining how these patterns relate to FT and how they vary between climates and forest types. Each cou…
Current constraints to reconcile tropical forest restoration and bioeconomy
Large-scale forest restoration is vital for delivering a broad array of ecosystem services benefits to society. However, it is often perceived as an economically noncompetitive land use choice. Integrating economic opportunities into restoration aligns socioeconomic and environmental goals, reducing conflicts between forest production and conservation-oriented management decisions. Supply chains focusing on high-value goods can enhance the reach …
The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery across different restoration approaches. Through global synthesis, we used 25,950 matched data pairs from 264 studies in 53 countries to assess how delivery of climate, soil, water, and wood production services, in addition to biodiversity, compares across a range of…
Ecosystem restoration job creation potential in Brazil
The central motivation to restore ecosystems at a planetary scale has been to reverse degradation and provide multiple environmental benefits, but key global players like governments may be more interested in social outcomes from undertaking restoration, such as job creation. Assessing the job opportunities stemming from ongoing restoration programmes can leverage additional investments for their implementation and support their long‐term mainten…
Which of the plethora of tree-growing projects to support
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits
Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives, many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly compensate for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which are a major cause of rising global temperatures. However, tree planting that is poorly planned and executed could actually increase CO 2 emissions and have long‐term, deleterious impacts on biodiversity, landscapes and livelihoo…
The cost of restoring carbon stocks in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Knowing which restoration approach provides the best returns on investment for accumulating carbon is essential to foster restoration planning, financing, and implementation. Here, we explored the cost‐effectiveness and drivers of aboveground and soil carbon accumulation in restored forests across an agricultural landscape of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. The recovery of aboveground and soil carbon stocks, as well as the implementation and land oppor…
Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
Tree planting and reforestation are currently in the spotlight as strategies for solving global environmental degradation. Many ongoing large-scale initiatives have proposed restoring millions of hectares and planting a trillion trees to solve climate change and biodiversity loss. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is one of the approaches most frequently employed to support these initiatives. Currently, many FLR initiatives are implemented i…
Implementing forest landscape restoration in Latin America
Tree planting is not a simple solution
Tree planting must be carefully planned and implemented to achieve desired outcomes
Drivers of tropical forest cover increase
Promoting natural regeneration can be a viable strategy to achieve ambitious restoration commitments, but predicting where native forest cover is likely to expand is challenging. Different biophysical and socioeconomic factors may determine the chances of native forest regrowth at different spatial and temporal scales, producing complex spatial patterns in the landscape and adding more and deeper information about potential for different forms of…
Ten years to restore a planet
Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires
Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). Small changes in the tropical moist forest—the most biodiverse biome within the tropical forests—may lead to global impacts on climate dynamics and warming, water cycles, and the loss of biodiversity. If the current rates of de…
Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus
Changes in Brazil’s Forest Code can erode the potential of riparian buffers to supply watershed services
Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes
Assessment of socioenvironmental benefits and feasibility identifies priority areas for restoring global tropical rainforests.
Restoring forests as a means to many ends
An urgent need to replenish tree canopy cover calls for holistic approaches
Riparian-forest buffers
A Policy‐Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration
The global restoration movement is gaining momentum. International and national leaders are demonstrating unparalleled political will for achieving ambitious targets. However, the knowledge base for implementing large‐scale forest and landscape restoration (FLR) needs further development. Besides application of scientific and local knowledge, a broad understanding of the social, economic, and environmental context in which this knowledge is being…
Contrasting regulatory frameworks to govern riparian forest restoration in Mexico and Brazil
Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning
Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics
When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration
We present a historical overview of forest concepts and definitions, linking these changes with distinct perspectives and management objectives. Policies dealing with a broad range of forest issues are often based on definitions created for the purpose of assessing global forest stocks, which do not distinguish between natural and planted forests or reforests, and which have not proved useful in assessing national and global rates of forest regro…
Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning
Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics
Priority setting for scaling-up tropical forest restoration projects
Governance innovations from a multi-stakeholder coalition to implement large-scale Forest Restoration in Brazil
Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus
Implementing forest landscape restoration in Latin America
Current constraints to reconcile tropical forest restoration and bioeconomy
Large-scale forest restoration is vital for delivering a broad array of ecosystem services benefits to society. However, it is often perceived as an economically noncompetitive land use choice. Integrating economic opportunities into restoration aligns socioeconomic and environmental goals, reducing conflicts between forest production and conservation-oriented management decisions. Supply chains focusing on high-value goods can enhance the reach …
Changes in Brazil’s Forest Code can erode the potential of riparian buffers to supply watershed services
Contrasting regulatory frameworks to govern riparian forest restoration in Mexico and Brazil
Priority setting for scaling-up tropical forest restoration projects
A critical analysis of the Native Vegetation Protection Law of Brazil (2012)
The Native Vegetation Protection Law of Brazil, which replaced the Forest Code from 1965, is still undergoing regulation at federal and state levels, and the constitutionality of some clauses are still in question. In order to support legal rulings, decisions by public officers, and to inform other stakeholders, we present a balanced assessment of the positive and negative consequences of Native Vegetation Protection Law in light of current scien…
Biomass resilience of Neotropical secondary forests
Carbon sequestration potential of second-growth forest regeneration in the Latin American tropics
Models reveal the high carbon mitigation potential of tropical forest regeneration.
Governance innovations from a multi-stakeholder coalition to implement large-scale Forest Restoration in Brazil
When is a forest a forest? Forest concepts and definitions in the era of forest and landscape restoration
We present a historical overview of forest concepts and definitions, linking these changes with distinct perspectives and management objectives. Policies dealing with a broad range of forest issues are often based on definitions created for the purpose of assessing global forest stocks, which do not distinguish between natural and planted forests or reforests, and which have not proved useful in assessing national and global rates of forest regro…
A Policy‐Driven Knowledge Agenda for Global Forest and Landscape Restoration
The global restoration movement is gaining momentum. International and national leaders are demonstrating unparalleled political will for achieving ambitious targets. However, the knowledge base for implementing large‐scale forest and landscape restoration (FLR) needs further development. Besides application of scientific and local knowledge, a broad understanding of the social, economic, and environmental context in which this knowledge is being…
Contrasting regulatory frameworks to govern riparian forest restoration in Mexico and Brazil
Best practice for the use of scenarios for restoration planning
Using markets to leverage investment in forest and landscape restoration in the tropics
Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes
Assessment of socioenvironmental benefits and feasibility identifies priority areas for restoring global tropical rainforests.
Restoring forests as a means to many ends
An urgent need to replenish tree canopy cover calls for holistic approaches
Riparian-forest buffers
Tree planting is not a simple solution
Tree planting must be carefully planned and implemented to achieve desired outcomes
Drivers of tropical forest cover increase
Promoting natural regeneration can be a viable strategy to achieve ambitious restoration commitments, but predicting where native forest cover is likely to expand is challenging. Different biophysical and socioeconomic factors may determine the chances of native forest regrowth at different spatial and temporal scales, producing complex spatial patterns in the landscape and adding more and deeper information about potential for different forms of…
Ten years to restore a planet
Recent deforestation drove the spike in Amazonian fires
Tropical forests are of global importance even though they only cover around 10% of the Earth's land surface. They store large amounts of carbon and host between one-half and two-thirds of the world's species (Lewis 2006). Small changes in the tropical moist forest—the most biodiverse biome within the tropical forests—may lead to global impacts on climate dynamics and warming, water cycles, and the loss of biodiversity. If the current rates of de…
Adding forests to the water–energy–food nexus
Changes in Brazil’s Forest Code can erode the potential of riparian buffers to supply watershed services
Ten golden rules for reforestation to optimize carbon sequestration, biodiversity recovery and livelihood benefits
Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives, many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly compensate for anthropogenic CO 2 emissions, which are a major cause of rising global temperatures. However, tree planting that is poorly planned and executed could actually increase CO 2 emissions and have long‐term, deleterious impacts on biodiversity, landscapes and livelihoo…
The cost of restoring carbon stocks in Brazil's Atlantic Forest
Knowing which restoration approach provides the best returns on investment for accumulating carbon is essential to foster restoration planning, financing, and implementation. Here, we explored the cost‐effectiveness and drivers of aboveground and soil carbon accumulation in restored forests across an agricultural landscape of Brazil's Atlantic Forest. The recovery of aboveground and soil carbon stocks, as well as the implementation and land oppor…
Transformative governance for linking forest and landscape restoration to human well-being in Latin America
Tree planting and reforestation are currently in the spotlight as strategies for solving global environmental degradation. Many ongoing large-scale initiatives have proposed restoring millions of hectares and planting a trillion trees to solve climate change and biodiversity loss. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is one of the approaches most frequently employed to support these initiatives. Currently, many FLR initiatives are implemented i…
Implementing forest landscape restoration in Latin America
The biodiversity and ecosystem service contributions and trade-offs of forest restoration approaches
Forest restoration is being scaled up globally to deliver critical ecosystem services and biodiversity benefits; however, there is a lack of rigorous comparison of cobenefit delivery across different restoration approaches. Through global synthesis, we used 25,950 matched data pairs from 264 studies in 53 countries to assess how delivery of climate, soil, water, and wood production services, in addition to biodiversity, compares across a range of…
Ecosystem restoration job creation potential in Brazil
The central motivation to restore ecosystems at a planetary scale has been to reverse degradation and provide multiple environmental benefits, but key global players like governments may be more interested in social outcomes from undertaking restoration, such as job creation. Assessing the job opportunities stemming from ongoing restoration programmes can leverage additional investments for their implementation and support their long‐term mainten…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (23 obras) · Geography (21 obras) · Environmental resource management (17 obras) · Environmental Science (17 obras) · Forest Management and Policy (17 obras) · Ecology (16 obras) · Business (15 obras) · Economics (15 obras) · Ecosystem (12 obras) · Agroforestry (10 obras)