Database outcomes systematic review on participatory restoration ecology scenarios

Large-scale ecological restoration is crucial for effective biodiversity
conservation and combating climate change. However, perspectives on the
goals and values of restoration are highly diverse, as are the different
approaches to restoration e.g., ranging from the restoration of cultural
ecosystems to rewilding. We assess how the future of nature is envisioned
in participatory scenarios, focusing on which elements of rewilding and
nature contributions to people have been considered in scenario narratives
across Europe. We use the Nature Futures Framework to study how different
perspectives on the the relationship of people with nature are captured in
participatory scenarios. We found that a range of material, regulating and
non-materical benefits were well represented in participatory scenarios.
The different ecological aspects of rewilding were also present in many
participatory scenarios, but not as well represented as nature
contributions to people. Nature as culture was  the main
perspective present in the scenarios, with expected highest positive
impacts on non-material benefits and to a lessesr extent on regulating
benefits. Nature for nature futures were  associated with
positive impacts on regulating benefits and negative impacts on material
benefits, being the only type of future associate with positive impacts on
all three components of rewilding. Nature for society futures were
associated with moderate positive impacts on all three types of nature
contributions to people. Business as usual futures were associate with
negative impacts on regulating and non-material benefits and on all three
components of rewilding. Our results also highlight two major gaps that
should be addressed in participatory restoration planning and models.
Firstly, there is a paucity of spatially explicit approaches, with most
studies failing to transform the results of participatory scenario
planning into model projections. Secondly, we found scenarios that
explored co-benefits between multiple nature perspectives were overall
missing from the literature.