NEW EMBARGOED STUDY: Global Priorities for Ecosystem Restoration

Report: Global Priorities for Ecosystem Restoration

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Bernardo Strassburg: Bernardo B.N. Strassburg is the coordinator of the Centre for Conservation and Sustainability Science (CSRio), executive director of the International Institute for Sustainability (IIS) and assistant professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). Bernardo is an economist with a M.Sc. in environmental planning (focused on land-use change and ecosystem services in the Amazon), and  Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, focused on issues related to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+).

Robin Chazdon: Robin Chazdon is Professor Emerita in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department at the University of Connecticut and part-time Research Professor with the Tropical Forests and People Research Centre at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. After 28 years as a university professor, Dr. Chazdon has served as the Executive Director of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and as Director of the NSF-funded Research Coordination Network PARTNERS (People and Reforestation in the Tropics), focused on understanding the socio-ecological drivers of reforestation in the tropics. She is a Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute Global Restoration Initiative; a Senior Research Associate with the International Institute for Sustainability in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and adjunct professor at the University of Colorado. 

Thomas M. Brooks: Thomas Brooks is Head of IUCN’s Science and Knowledge Unit. He is responsible for supporting the scientific underpinning to IUCN’s knowledge products, ensuring IUCN’s scientific engagement in peer biodiversity-science-related networks, and helping to strengthen the culture of science across the union. His areas of expertise include: biodiversity conservation, species extinction, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, protected areas, ornithology, geography, ecology, evolutionary biology 

David Cooper: Dr. Harry David Cooper is Deputy Executive Secretary, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Previously in the Secretariat of the Convention he served as Director, Division for Science, Assessment and Monitoring and led work to promote the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and national biodiversity strategies and action plans. His areas of expertise include: Policy and science related to biodiversity and global change. International environmental negotiations. Plant genetic resources for food and agriculture 

Alvaro Iribarrem: Alvaro Iribarrem is chief of modeling at International Institute for Sustainability (IIS), research associate at Centre for Conservation and Sustainability Sciences (CSRio) and professor of systems dynamics in the Master of Sustainability Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He has a bachelor's degree in Physics from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Worked as a Ph.D. student at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters, in Garching bei München, from 2011 to 2012. Concluded his Ph.D. in Extragalactic Astrophysics in 2013. Worked as a research associate at the Ecosystems Services Management program at IIASA between 2014 and 2016.

Full List of Report Authors and Affiliations

Bernardo B. N. Strassburg1,2,3,4, Alvaro Iribarrem1,2, Hawthorne L. Beyer5, Carlos Leandro 2 Cordeiro1,2, Renato Crouzeilles1,2,3, Catarina Jakovac1,2,6, André Junqueira1,2,7, Eduardo 3 Lacerda1,2,8, Agnieszka E. Latawiec1,2,9,10, Andrew Balmford11, Thomas M. Brooks12,13,14, Stuart 4 Butchart11,15, Robin L. Chazdon2,16,17,18, Karl-Heinz Erb19, Pedro Brancalion20, Graeme 5 Buchanan21, David Cooper22, Sandra Diaz23, Paul Donald11,15,21, Valerie Kapos24, David 6 Leclere25, Lera Miles24, Michael Obersteiner25, Christoph Plutzar19,26, Carlos Alberto de M. 7 Scaramuzza2, Fabio R. Scarano3, Piero Visconti25

1 - Rio Conservation and Sustainability Science Centre, Department of Geography and the 11 Environment, Pontifical Catholic University, 22453900, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12 

2 - International Institute for Sustainability, Estrada Dona Castorina 124, 22460-320, Rio de 13 Janeiro, Brazil 14 

3 - Programa de Pós Graduacão em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 21941-15 590, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 16 

4 - Botanical Garden Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 17 

5 - School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, 4072, Queensland, 18 Australia

6 - Forest Ecology and Management Group, Wageningen University, 6700 AA Wageningen, The 20 Netherlands 21 

7 - Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 22 Bellatera, Barcelona, Spain 23 

8 - Department of Geography, Fluminense Federal University, Av. Gal. Milton Tavares de Souza, 24 s/nº, Campus da Praia Vermelha, Boa Viagem, Niterói – RJ 25 

9 - Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Informatics, Faculty of Production and Power 26 Engineering, University of Agriculture in Kraków, Balicka 116B, 30-149 Kraków, Poland 27 

10 - School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United 28 Kingdom

11 - Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ, 30 UK 31 

12 - International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), CH-1196 Gland, Switzerland

13 - World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF), University of the Philippines, Los Baños, Laguna, 33 Philippines 34 

14 - Institute for Marine & Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia 35 

15 - BirdLife International, David Attenborough Building, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 36 3QZ, UK. 37 

16 - Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 75 N. 38 Eagleville Road, Unit 3043, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, U.S.A. 39 

17 – World Resources Institute, Global Restoration Initiative, 10 G Street, NE Suite 800, 40 Washington, D.C. 20002 – USA 41 

18 - Tropical Forests and People Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, 90 Sipply 42 Downs Drive, Sippy Downs, QLS 4556 Australia 43 

19 - Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, A-44 1070 Vienna, Austria 45 

20 - Department of Forest Sciences, ‘Luiz de Queiroz’ College of Agriculture, University of São 46 Paulo. Av. Pádua Dias 11, 13.418-900, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil

21 - RSPB Centre for Conservation Science, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, 2 48 Lochside View, Edinburgh EH12 9DH, UK 49 

22 - Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (SCBD), Montreal, Canada 50

23 - Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, CONICET and Universidad Nacional de 51 Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina 52 

24 - UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, 219 Huntingdon Road, 53 Cambridge, CB3 0DL, United Kingdom 54 

25 – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1 - A-2361 55 Laxenburg, Austria 56 

26 - Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology, University 57 of Vienna, Rennweg 14, 1030 Vienna, Austria. 58 59

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