Prioritizing India’s landscapes for biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being

Countries
Climate Objective
Adaptation
Planning and Implementation Activity
Analysis and Data Collection
Linking with the Sustainable Development Goals
Sectors and Themes
Forestry and Land Use
Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
Source
NDC Partnership
Language
English
Case Summary

Biodiversity conservation and human well-being are tightly interlinked. Yet, mismatches in the scale at which these two priority issues are planned and implemented have exacerbated biodiversity loss, erosion of ecosystem services and declining human quality of life. India houses the second largest human population on the planet, while

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Case study author(s)

Arjun Srivathsa, Divya Vasudev, Tanaya Nair, Stotra Chakrabarti, Pranav Chanchani, Ruth DeFries, Arpit Deomurari, Sutirtha Dutta, Dipankar Ghose, Varun R. Goswami, Rajat Nayak, Amrita Neelakantan, Prachi Thatte, Srinivas Vaidyanathan, Madhu Verma, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Mahesh Sankaran & Uma Ramakrishnan

Year published

2023