With the launch of the Restoration Opportunities Optimisation Tool (ROOT), the world has a better way of making decisions on ecosystem services, specifically in support of the people who actually rely on them. Following over three years of development through a partnership between International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and The Natural Capital Project, ROOT is a software tool that optimises trade-offs among different ecosystem services to help decision-makers visualise where investments in restoration could be made that would optimise benefits for multiple landscape goals.
ROOT is at the frontier of connecting science to policy in both ecosystem services analysis and in the assessment of landscape restoration opportunities. ROOT was developed as a decision-support tool for both national and subnational Forest Landscape Restoration assessments using the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM).
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