Joseph Fargione

Biographic Data

ID6819554
NAMEJoseph Fargione
GIVEN NAMESJoseph
FAMILY NAMEFargione
SIGNATUREFARGIONE J
AFFILIATIONSThe Nature Conservancy
ORCID0000-0002-0636-5380
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS15
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • Restoring forest cover at diverse sites across Canada can balance synergies and trade-offs

    Open AccessC Ronnie Drever, Alison M Long et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2025

  • 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…

  • Identifying opportunity hot spots for reducing the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western US conifer forests

    Open AccessJamie L Peeler, Lisa A McCauley et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2023

    The escalating climate and wildfire crises have generated worldwide interest in using proactive forest management (e.g. forest thinning, prescribed fire, cultural burning) to mitigate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in forests. To estimate the risk of wildfire-caused carbon loss in western United States (US) conifer forests, we used a generalizable framework to evaluate interactions among wildfire hazard and carbon exposure and vulnerabil…

  • Contributions of healthier diets and agricultural productivity toward sustainability and climate goals in the United States

    Open AccessGrace C Wu, Justin S Baker et al.ARTICLESustainability Science2022References: 5

    Meeting ambitious climate targets will require deploying the full suite of mitigation options, including those that indirectly reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. Healthy diets have sustainability co-benefits by directly reducing livestock emissions as well as indirectly reducing land use emissions. Increased crop productivity could indirectly avoid emissions by reducing cropland area. However, there is disagreement on the sustainability of pr…

  • Lower cost and more feasible options to restore forest cover in the contiguous United States for climate mitigation

    Open AccessSusan C Cook‐Patton, Trisha Gopalakrishna et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

    Restoring forest cover is a prominent option for climate mitigation. Effective deployment requires knowing where opportunities are and how they vary in carbon capture, costs, co-benefits, and feasibility. Here, we combined spatial, economic, and feasibility analyses to examine 10 different opportunity classes for restoration of forest cover across the contiguous United States. These include non-stocked forests, shrublands, protected areas, post-b…

  • Restoring Abandoned Farmland to Mitigate Climate Change on a Full Earth

    Open AccessYi Yang, Sarah E Hobbie et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2020

  • The role of soil carbon in natural climate solutions

    Open AccessDeborah Bossio, Susan C Cook‐Patton et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2020Cited by: 13References: 3

  • A benefit–cost analysis of floodplain land acquisition for US flood damage reduction

    Open AccessKris Johnson, Oliver Wing et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019Cited by: 2References: 4

  • Soil carbon science for policy and practice

    Open AccessMark Bradford, Chelsea J Carey et al.ARTICLENature Sustainability2019References: 4

  • Natural climate solutions for the United States

    Open AccessJoseph Fargione, Steven Bassett et al.ARTICLEScience Advances2018

    U.S. land management can contribute 1.2 Pg CO 2 e year −1 of greenhouse gas mitigation, 76% of which costs USD 50 Mg CO 2 e −1 or less.

  • Estimates of present and future flood risk in the conterminous United States

    Open AccessOliver Wing, Paul Bates et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    Past attempts to estimate rainfall-driven flood risk across the US either have incomplete coverage, coarse resolution or use overly simplified models of the flooding process. In this paper, we use a new 30 m resolution model of the entire conterminous US with a 2D representation of flood physics to produce estimates of flood hazard, which match to within 90% accuracy the skill of local models built with detailed data. These flood depths are combi…

  • Natural climate solutions

    Open AccessBronson W Griscom, Justin Adams et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2017

    Significance Most nations recently agreed to hold global average temperature rise to well below 2 °C. We examine how much climate mitigation nature can contribute to this goal with a comprehensive analysis of “natural climate solutions” (NCS): 20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands. …

  • Bioenergy and climate change mitigation: An assessment

    Open AccessFelix Creutzig, N H Ravindranath et al.ARTICLEGCB Bioenergy2015

    Bioenergy deployment offers significant potential for climate change mitigation, but also carries considerable risks. In this review, we bring together perspectives of various communities involved in the research and regulation of bioenergy deployment in the context of climate change mitigation: Land‐use and energy experts, land‐use and integrated assessment modelers, human geographers, ecosystem researchers, climate scientists and two different …

  • Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt

    Open AccessJoseph Fargione, Jason Hill et al.ARTICLEScience2008

    Increasing energy use, climate change, and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from fossil fuels make switching to low-carbon fuels a high priority. Biofuels are a potential low-carbon energy source, but whether biofuels offer carbon savings depends on how they are produced. Converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce food crop–based biofuels in Brazil, Southeast Asia, and the United States creates a “biofuel carbon debt” b…

  • Biodiversity Loss Threatens Human Well-Being

    Open AccessSandra Dı́az, Joseph Fargione et al.ARTICLEPLOS Biology2006

    Biodiversity lies at the core of ecosystem processes fueling our planet's vital life-support systems; its degradation--by us--is threatening our own well-being and will disproportionately impact the poor.

  • Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change

    Open AccessD Tilman, Joseph Fargione et al.ARTICLEScience2001

    During the next 50 years, which is likely to be the final period of rapid agricultural expansion, demand for food by a wealthier and 50% larger global population will be a major driver of global environmental change. Should past dependences of the global environmental impacts of agriculture on human population and consumption continue, 10 9 hectares of natural ecosystems would be converted to agriculture by 2050. This would be accompanied by 2.4-…