Authors
Ralph JM Temmink, Bjorn JM Robroek, Gijs van Dijk, Adam HW Koks, Sannimari A Käärmelahti, Alexandra Barthelmes, Martin J Wassen, Rafael Ziegler, Magdalena N Steele, Wim Giesen, Hans Joosten, Christian Fritz, Leon PM Lamers, Alfons JP Smolders
Publication date
2024/2
Journal
Ambio
Volume
53
Issue
2
Pages
355-357
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Description
In our paper (Temmink et al. 2023), we argue that only integrated wetscapes (wet peatland landscapes) allow sustainable and complementary land-use functions. Wetscapes are an inevitable alternative for unsustainable drainagebased peatland use. In their comment, Langston et al.(2023) argue that our design is ‘‘desirable’’but ‘‘overlooks the complex social, cultural and political dynamics of shaping peatlands’’. We much welcome these comments, which are complementary to the issues we focussed on in our paper.
We all agree that peatland restoration should be ‘‘effective, efficient and just’’.‘‘Effective’’primarily refers to the physical basis of peatland management.‘‘Peatland must be wet’’is a boundary condition of global and local peatland sustainability, as drainage-based peatland use aggravates its own subsistence base (Joosten et al. 2012). Five percent of all global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions …
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