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Future-Proofing Marine and Coastal Restoration – Lessons from Australasia
Coastal restoration efforts are underway across Australasia, from small- to large-scales, across multiple habitat types, and involving researchers, indigenous and community groups, industry, and local government agencies. While these efforts provide solutions to help our degraded coastal ecosystems, it is increasingly important that we incorporate planning for future changes in these restoration efforts. This topical collection is designed for anyone involved in coastal restoration to discuss ways in which they have incorporated future-proofing into their efforts, including stressors related to climate change and policy variations. The special issue will cover lessons learned through restoration efforts, costs, governance and measuring successful outcomes. This focus means that the information should be of an applied outcome. Scaling up restoration efforts has become particularly important, which requires working with groups of actors, are possibly more expensive, but could assist governments deliver on international restoration targets, such as the UN Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework target 2 of restoring 30% of lost or damaged ecosystems by 2030.
This call for papers is open to submissions in addition to invited authors. Papers must be submitted electronically in the journal website, being careful to choose the Collection and not normal research papers. A full research paper has no more than 8,000 words, 8 figures and 4 tables maximum. A short paper has no more than 4,000 words, 4 figures and 1 table.
Editors
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Nathan Waltham
Dr Nathan Waltham, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. He is Senior Lecturer and Principal Research Scientist in coastal wetland ecosystem processes and restoration at James Cook University. He has a strong focus on delivering science solutions for government, industry, community, Indigenous groups, Non-Government Organisations and landholders. Nathan.waltham@jcu.edu.au
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Jenny Hillman
Jenny Hillman, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand is lecturer in restoration ecology at the University of Auckland and and is a marine coastal ecologist looking at assessing the health and functioning of marine ecosystems and restoring degraded ecosystems, focusing on shellfish species. j.hillman@auckland.ac.nz
