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Prioritizing the protection of climate refugia: designing a climate-ready protected area network

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  • Victoria Graham
  • John B. Baumgartner
  • Linda J. Beaumont
  • Manuel Esperón-Rodríguez
  • Alana Grech

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Protected areas are the primary strategy for maintaining natural landscapes and separating biodiversity features from preventable anthropogenic threats. The Convention on Biological Diversity calls for the coverage of at least 17% of land by protected areas, and the strategic prioritization of important biodiversity areas. Using the spatially explicit reserve design software, Marxan, this study combines climate refugia modelled under future climates in the year 2070 and bioregions to identify priority sites for protected area expansion under climate change in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia. Priority sites for new protected areas that meet bioregion and climate refugia targets were identified in central-western, northeast and patches of southeast NSW. Seven existing parks, including Kosciuszko National Park, overlapped with regions identified repeatedly as climate refugia under 12 future climate scenarios. The recommendations from this study support policy-makers in prioritizing the protection of biodiversity under a changing and uncertain climate.

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  • Victoria Graham & John B. Baumgartner & Linda J. Beaumont & Manuel Esperón-Rodríguez & Alana Grech, 2019. "Prioritizing the protection of climate refugia: designing a climate-ready protected area network," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 62(14), pages 2588-2606, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:62:y:2019:i:14:p:2588-2606
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2019.1573722
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    1. Somaye Vaissi, 2021. "Design of Protected Area by Tracking and Excluding the Effects of Climate and Landscape Change: A Case Study Using Neurergus derjugini," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(10), pages 1-20, May.
    2. Gerling, Charlotte & Schöttker, Oliver & Hearne, John, 2022. "Keep it or Leave it - the Role of Reversible Conservation Investments in Optimal Reserve Design under Climate Change," VfS Annual Conference 2022 (Basel): Big Data in Economics 264058, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    3. Gerling, Charlotte & Schöttker, Oliver & Hearne, John, 2022. "Optimal time series in the reserve design problem under climate change," MPRA Paper 114691, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Gerling, Charlotte & Schöttker, Oliver & Hearne, John, 2022. "The ”climate adaptation problem” in biodiversity conservation: the role of reversible conservation investments in optimal reserve design under climate change," MPRA Paper 114812, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    5. Gerling, Charlotte & Schöttker, Oliver & Hearne, John, 2022. "Irreversible and partly reversible investments in the optimal reserve design problem: the role of flexibility under climate change," MPRA Paper 112089, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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