Several governments are currently developing and implementing private land conservation policies to achieve national and global conservation targets. A new study assessed 30 years of published scientific literature in order to identify research gaps and mainstream future private land conservation research.
“We found that 78% of the articles focused on four countries only, namely United States of America, Australia, South Africa and Canada”, says
“Furthermore, we found differences in literature content, showing that research has focus on different topics at the continental level”, says Associate Professor
“While several policy instruments exist to promote private land conservation globally, we found that property rights instruments, for example landowners voluntarily transferring partial property rights to a conservation organization, were the most covered instruments in literature”, says Dr Alvaro Soutullo, Scientific Director of the
“As conserving biodiversity in a changing world requires understanding complex socio-ecological systems, it is paramount that future research better understands stakeholders’ engagement in private land conservation”, says Adjunct Professor
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