Piero Visconti

Biographic Data

ID5582945
NAMEPiero Visconti
GIVEN NAMESPiero
FAMILY NAMEVisconti
SIGNATUREVISCONTI P
AFFILIATIONSInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
ORCID0000-0001-6823-2826
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS17
TOTAL CITATIONS61
AUTHOR COUNT17
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Using policy scenarios to assess challenges and opportunities for reaching restoration targets in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest

    Open AccessYara Shennan‐Farpón, Aline C Soterroni et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is a global restoration hotspot. Most of the remaining forest areas are degraded and separated by large cities, and agricultural lands essential for national food security. Brazil’s restoration agenda is defined by multiple national and global restoration targets and policies, including Brazil’s Native Vegetation Protection Law (No. 12,651/2012) also known as the Forest Code, which sets minimum levels of native vegetation…

  • Integrated modeling of nature’s role in human well-being: A research agenda

    Open AccessRebecca Chaplin‐Kramer, Stephen Polasky et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024Cited by: 3References: 10

    Integrated models can assess effects of ecosystem services on the global economy. • Insights from integrated models can improve management for sustainable development. • To be most useful, models need to link ecological impacts and human well-being. • Key advances include better incorporation of equity and social-ecological feedbacks. Integrated assessment models that incorporate biodiversity and ecosystem services could be an important tool for …

  • Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk

    Open AccessNicholas H Wolff, Piero Visconti et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2023

    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…

  • Towards a better future for biodiversity and people: Modelling Nature Futures

    Open AccessHyejin Kim, Glen D Peterson et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2023Cited by: 18References: 2

    The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for co-creating positive futures for nature and people. It seeks to open up a diversity of futures through mainly three value perspectives on nature – Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture. This paper describes how the NFF can be applied in modelling to support decision-making. First, we describe key considerations for the NFF in developing qualitative and quantitative …

  • Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions

    Open AccessPaul Leadley, Andrew Gonzalez et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Capacity of countries to reduce biological invasions

    Open AccessGuillaume Latombe, Hanno Seebens et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2022Cited by: 1References: 4

    The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11625-022-01166-3

  • Indicators keep progress honest: A call to track both the quantity and quality of protected areas

    Open AccessVanessa M Adams, Piero Visconti et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Integrated spatial planning for biodiversity conservation and food production

    Open AccessConstance Fastré, Willem‐Jan van Zeist et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2021

  • Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

    Open AccessBernardo B N Strassburg, Steven L Slattery et al.ARTICLENature2020

    Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving biodiversity 1 and stabilizing the climate of the Earth 2 . Although ambitious national and global targets have been set, global priority areas that account for spatial variation in benefits and costs have yet to be identified. Here we develop and apply a multicriteria optimization approach that identifies priority areas for restoration across all terrestrial biom…

  • Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century

    Open AccessSean Maxwell, Sean L Maxwell et al.ARTICLENature2020

    Humanity will soon define a new era for nature-one that seeks to transform decades of underwhelming responses to the global biodiversity crisis. Area-based conservation efforts, which include both protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, are likely to extend and diversify. However, persistent shortfalls in ecological representation and management effectiveness diminish the potential role of area-based conservation in …

  • Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy

    Open AccessDavid Leclère, Michael Obersteiner et al.ARTICLENature2020

    Increased efforts are required to prevent further losses to terrestrial biodiversity and the ecosystem services that it provides1,2. Ambitious targets have been proposed, such as reversing the declining trends in biodiversity3; however, just feeding the growing human population will make this a challenge4. Here we use an ensemble of land-use and biodiversity models to assess whether—and how—humanity can reverse the declines in terrestrial biodive…

  • Projected Global Loss of Mammal Habitat Due to Land-Use and Climate Change

    Open AccessDaniele Baisero, Piero Visconti et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    Human pressure on the environment is driving a global decline of biodiversity. Anticipating whether this trend can be reverted under future scenarios is key to supporting policy decisions. We used the InSiGHTS framework to model the impacts of land-use and climate change on future habitat availability for 2,827 terrestrial mammals at 15 arcmin resolution under five contrasting global scenarios based on combinations of representative concentration…

  • The global cropland-sparing potential of high-yield farming

    Open AccessChristian Folberth, Nikolay Khabarov et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 12References: 10

  • Protecting half of the planet could directly affect over one billion people

    Open AccessJudith Schleicher, Julie G Zaehringer et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 16References: 2

  • Climate change vulnerability assessment of species

    Open AccessWendy Foden, Bruce E Young et al.ARTICLEWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews…2018Cited by: 11References: 9

    Assessing species' vulnerability to climate change is a prerequisite for developing effective strategies to conserve them. The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the number of studies evaluating how, how much, why, when, and where species will be impacted by climate change. We provide an overview of the rapidly developing field of climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) and describe key concepts, terms, steps and considerat…

  • EU agricultural reform fails on biodiversity

    Open AccessGuy Pe’er, Lynn V Dicks et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    Extra steps by Member States are needed to protect farmed and grassland ecosystems

  • A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets

    Open AccessDerek P Tittensor, Matt Walpole et al.ARTICLEScience2014

    In 2010, the international community, under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreed on 20 biodiversity-related “Aichi Targets” to be achieved within a decade. We provide a comprehensive mid-term assessment of progress toward these global targets using 55 indicator data sets. We projected indicator trends to 2020 using an adaptive statistical framework that incorporated the specific properties of individual time series. On c…