Cynthia M Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1148887 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cynthia M Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cynthia M |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Nature Conservancy |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8902-8728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk
Halting the alarming rate of species extinction, driven primarily by habitat destruction, motivated the international community to adopt the Global Biodiversity Framework (2022) and its targets aimed at reversing habitat and species loss. Because of urgency and resource constraints, a key challenge is meeting targets effectively and efficiently. Here we conduct a global prioritization linking 70,492 unique population maps and life history charact…
Indigenous Peoples’ lands are threatened by industrial development; conversion risk assessment reveals need to support Indigenous stewardship
Against the odds
Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss
In the face of the ongoing biodiversity crisis, questions are arising regarding the success, or lack thereof, of biodiversity offset schemes, where biodiversity losses from human development are compensated by producing equitable gains elsewhere. The overarching goal of offsetting is to deliver no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity. Assessing whether offsetting does indeed deliver NNL is, however, challenging because of a lack of clear and reliable i…
Energy matters
Understanding potential future patterns of human-induced land-use and land-cover change is critical to assessing and proactively managing the tradeoffs between development and the environment. Most global land-use change assessments, however, consider a narrow set of economic sectors, focusing primarily on agricultural and urban sectors. We present a global land-use change model that includes detailed energy and mining sectors (11 in total) in ad…
Effective moratoria on land acquisitions reduce tropical deforestation
The tropics have suffered substantial forest loss, and elevated deforestation rates have been closely linked to large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA). Having a timely and accurate understanding of global LSLA pattern will be critically important for concluding related policies and actions. Here, we investigate global LSLA networks and find that land acquisitions are characterized by dominant acquisition flows from the developing to the developed w…
From Paris to practice
The signing of the Paris climate agreement and sustainable development goals demonstrated an international commitment to halting climate change, increasing energy access, and maintaining biodiversity. Successful implementation requires rapidly expanding renewable energy development, which has a large land footprint and can conflict with maintaining natural lands. To quantify the potential to mediate this land conflict, we converted emission reduc…
Finding Charity's Folk
Finding Charity's Folk chronicles the remarkable journeys and accomplishments of “a ghost of slavery” and the painstaking researcher who invoked and “remembered” Charity Folks, an enslaved Annapolis, Maryland, mulatto, into the present (pp. xvii, 71). Jessica Millward anchors extant shards of archival evidence in the vast scholarship on slavery and manumission in early national America; incorporates countless hours of interviews with descendants …
Mitigation for one & all
Emerging development policies and lending standards call for consideration of ecosystem services when mitigating impacts from development, yet little guidance exists to inform this process. Here we propose a comprehensive framework for advancing both biodiversity and ecosystem service mitigation. We have clarified a means for choosing representative ecosystem service targets alongside biodiversity targets, identified servicesheds as a useful spat…
Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
Honeybees Can't Do It Alone The majority of food crops require pollination to set fruit with the honeybee providing a pollination workhorse, with both feral and managed populations an integral component of crop management (see the Perspective by Tylianakis , published online 28 February). Garibaldi et al. (p. 1608 , published online 28 February) now show that wild pollinators are also a vital part of our crop systems. In more than 40 important cr…
Scraping By
Slavery in an
Braided Relations, Entwined Lives
The Place, the War, the First Reconstruction 1. The Place and the People 2. Disorder and Chaos of War 3. Rebuilding and Resisting Part II. Defining Women, Defining Their Braided Relations 4. Marriage and Cohabitation within the Aristocratic Paradigm: Wealthy White Women and the Free Brown Elite 5. Marriage and Cohabitation outside the Aristocratic Paradigm: Slaves and Free Laboring Women 6. Mixing and Admixtures 7. Work and Workers 8. Leisure and…
The Other White Gold
In one of the more famous slave narratives—in part because it was the first published account by a woman—Bermuda‐born Mary Prince reported that “my master sent me away to Turk's Island. I was not p
Mitigation for one & all
Emerging development policies and lending standards call for consideration of ecosystem services when mitigating impacts from development, yet little guidance exists to inform this process. Here we propose a comprehensive framework for advancing both biodiversity and ecosystem service mitigation. We have clarified a means for choosing representative ecosystem service targets alongside biodiversity targets, identified servicesheds as a useful spat…
The Other White Gold
In one of the more famous slave narratives—in part because it was the first published account by a woman—Bermuda‐born Mary Prince reported that “my master sent me away to Turk's Island. I was not p
Energy matters
Understanding potential future patterns of human-induced land-use and land-cover change is critical to assessing and proactively managing the tradeoffs between development and the environment. Most global land-use change assessments, however, consider a narrow set of economic sectors, focusing primarily on agricultural and urban sectors. We present a global land-use change model that includes detailed energy and mining sectors (11 in total) in ad…
Braided Relations, Entwined Lives
The Place, the War, the First Reconstruction 1. The Place and the People 2. Disorder and Chaos of War 3. Rebuilding and Resisting Part II. Defining Women, Defining Their Braided Relations 4. Marriage and Cohabitation within the Aristocratic Paradigm: Wealthy White Women and the Free Brown Elite 5. Marriage and Cohabitation outside the Aristocratic Paradigm: Slaves and Free Laboring Women 6. Mixing and Admixtures 7. Work and Workers 8. Leisure and…
The Other White Gold
In one of the more famous slave narratives—in part because it was the first published account by a woman—Bermuda‐born Mary Prince reported that “my master sent me away to Turk's Island. I was not p
Scraping By
Slavery in an
Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
Honeybees Can't Do It Alone The majority of food crops require pollination to set fruit with the honeybee providing a pollination workhorse, with both feral and managed populations an integral component of crop management (see the Perspective by Tylianakis , published online 28 February). Garibaldi et al. (p. 1608 , published online 28 February) now show that wild pollinators are also a vital part of our crop systems. In more than 40 important cr…
Mitigation for one & all
Emerging development policies and lending standards call for consideration of ecosystem services when mitigating impacts from development, yet little guidance exists to inform this process. Here we propose a comprehensive framework for advancing both biodiversity and ecosystem service mitigation. We have clarified a means for choosing representative ecosystem service targets alongside biodiversity targets, identified servicesheds as a useful spat…
Finding Charity's Folk
Finding Charity's Folk chronicles the remarkable journeys and accomplishments of “a ghost of slavery” and the painstaking researcher who invoked and “remembered” Charity Folks, an enslaved Annapolis, Maryland, mulatto, into the present (pp. xvii, 71). Jessica Millward anchors extant shards of archival evidence in the vast scholarship on slavery and manumission in early national America; incorporates countless hours of interviews with descendants …
From Paris to practice
The signing of the Paris climate agreement and sustainable development goals demonstrated an international commitment to halting climate change, increasing energy access, and maintaining biodiversity. Successful implementation requires rapidly expanding renewable energy development, which has a large land footprint and can conflict with maintaining natural lands. To quantify the potential to mediate this land conflict, we converted emission reduc…
Effective moratoria on land acquisitions reduce tropical deforestation
The tropics have suffered substantial forest loss, and elevated deforestation rates have been closely linked to large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA). Having a timely and accurate understanding of global LSLA pattern will be critically important for concluding related policies and actions. Here, we investigate global LSLA networks and find that land acquisitions are characterized by dominant acquisition flows from the developing to the developed w…
Energy matters
Understanding potential future patterns of human-induced land-use and land-cover change is critical to assessing and proactively managing the tradeoffs between development and the environment. Most global land-use change assessments, however, consider a narrow set of economic sectors, focusing primarily on agricultural and urban sectors. We present a global land-use change model that includes detailed energy and mining sectors (11 in total) in ad…
Credible biodiversity offsetting needs public national registers to confirm no net loss
In the face of the ongoing biodiversity crisis, questions are arising regarding the success, or lack thereof, of biodiversity offset schemes, where biodiversity losses from human development are compensated by producing equitable gains elsewhere. The overarching goal of offsetting is to deliver no net loss (NNL) of biodiversity. Assessing whether offsetting does indeed deliver NNL is, however, challenging because of a lack of clear and reliable i…
Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk
Halting the alarming rate of species extinction, driven primarily by habitat destruction, motivated the international community to adopt the Global Biodiversity Framework (2022) and its targets aimed at reversing habitat and species loss. Because of urgency and resource constraints, a key challenge is meeting targets effectively and efficiently. Here we conduct a global prioritization linking 70,492 unique population maps and life history charact…
Indigenous Peoples’ lands are threatened by industrial development; conversion risk assessment reveals need to support Indigenous stewardship
Against the odds
Economics (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental resource management (7 works) · Biology (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Environmental Science (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Natural resource economics (5 works) · Biodiversity (4 works)