Sustainable landscape efficiency frontiers and current performance showing potential simultaneous gains for environmental and economic outcomes and tradeoffs for illustrative countries. (IMAGE)
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Sustainable landscape efficiency frontiers and current performance showing potential simultaneous gains for environmental and economic outcomes and tradeoffs for illustrative countries: (A) Haiti, (B) Iceland, (C) Gabon, and (D) Japan. The horizontal axis measures net economic value from agricultural crop production, livestock grazing, and forestry. The vertical axis is the geometric mean of climate mitigation and biodiversity scores. The optimization was performed in three dimensions (biodiversity, climate mitigation, net economic value) but represented in two dimensions, and hence the frontier is often thicker than a single line. Minimum and maximum scores in each country for each outcome are normalized to 0 and 1, with maximum environmental geometric scores often occurring at negative net economic value because of the incorporation of transition costs that outweigh positive net production value.
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Stephen Polasky
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