Rebecca Runting

Identifying opportunities for living shorelines using a multi-criteria suitability analysis

A Young, RK Runting, H Kujala, TM Konlechner, EMA Strain, RL Morris

Journal article  |  2023  |  Regional Studies in Marine Science

The need to develop more sustainable solutions for coastal hazard risk reduction and to protect and restore degraded coastal habit..

Multicriteria optimization to develop cost-effective pes-schemes to restore multiple environmental benefits in the Brazilian Atlantic forest

CMG Lemos, HL Beyer, RK Runting, PR Andrade, APD Aguiar

Journal article  |  2023  |  Ecosystem Services

Understanding the cost-effectiveness of restoration initiatives is critical for their successful implementation. In this context, ..

Reconciling oil palm and ecosystems

Rebecca K Runting, Jessie A Wells

Journal article  |  2023  |  NATURE SUSTAINABILITY

Global drivers of change across tropical savannah ecosystems and insights into their management and conservation

BA Williams, JEM Watson, HL Beyer, HS Grantham, JS Simmonds, SJ Alvarez, O Venter, BBN Strassburg, RK Runting

Journal article  |  2022  |  Biological Conservation

All tropical savannahs are experiencing extensive transformation and degradation, yet conservation strategies do not adequately ad..

Retaining natural vegetation to safeguard biodiversity and humanity.

Jeremy S Simmonds, Andres Felipe Suarez-Castro, April E Reside, James EM Watson, James R Allan, Scott C Atkinson, Pasquale Borrelli, Nigel Dudley, Stephen Edwards, Richard A Fuller, Edward T Game, Simon Linke, Sean L Maxwell, Panos Panagos, Philippe Puydarrieux, Fabien Quétier, Rebecca K Runting, Talitha Santini, Laura J Sonter, Martine Maron

Journal article  |  2022  |  Conserv Biol

Global efforts to deliver internationally agreed goals to reduce carbon emissions, halt biodiversity loss, and retain essential ec..

Flexible conservation decisions for climate adaptation

JR Rhodes, PR Armsworth, G Iacona, P Shah, A Gordon, KA Wilson, RK Runting, BA Bryan

Journal article  |  2022  |  One Earth

Climate change is transforming the decision-making landscape for many conservation organizations. Conservation planning and implem..

Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design

Sofia Lopez-Cubillos, Rebecca K Runting, Andres F Suarez-Castro, Brooke A Williams, Dolors Armenteras, Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero, Eve McDonald-Madden

Journal article  |  2022  |  ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

Payment for ecosystem services (PES) schemes are an increasingly important approach that often try to achieve triple bottom line s..

Global rarity of intact coastal regions

Brooke A Williams, James EM Watson, Hawthorne L Beyer, Carissa J Klein, Jamie Montgomery, Rebecca K Runting, Leslie A Roberson, Benjamin S Halpern, Hedley S Grantham, Caitlin D Kuempel, Melanie Frazier, Oscar Venter, Amelia Wenger

Journal article  |  2022  |  CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Management of the land-sea interface is essential for global conservation and sustainability objectives because coastal regions ma..

Managing risk and uncertainty in systematic conservation planning with insufficient information

Valentin Popov, Payal Shah, Rebecca K Runting, Jonathan R Rhodes

Journal article  |  2021  |  METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Recent advances in systematic conservation planning make use of modern portfolio theory (MPT)—a framework to construct and select ..

The landmark Escazu Agreement: An opportunity to integrate democracy, human rights, and transboundary conservation

Sofia Lopez-Cubillos, Lina Munoz-Avila, Leslie A Roberson, Andres F Suarez-Castro, Jose Manuel Ochoa-Quintero, Renato Crouzeilles, Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, Jonathan Rhodes, Wolfram Dressler, Maria Jose Martinez-Harms, Rebecca K Runting

Journal article  |  2021  |  CONSERVATION LETTERS

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is one of the world's most biodiverse regions, but this diversity is threatened by the overe..