Ricerc@Sapienza

communities and the so-called “heritage communities” of which such heritage is an expression, is
becoming an increasingly important vehicle for the economic and social development, especially
in emerging countries. The places that express the history, culture and values of the human
collectives can become, in this way, laboratories in which the knowledge and the traditions are
reinterpreted in a continuous dialogue. Of such valorization and of such dialogue, the emerging

Human pressure on the environment is driving a global decline of biodiversity. Anticipating whether this trend can be reverted under future scenarios is key to supporting policy decisions. We used the InSiGHTS framework to model the impacts of land-use and climate change on future habitat availability for 2,827 terrestrial mammals at 15 arcmin resolution under five contrasting global scenarios based on combinations of representative concentration pathways and shared socio-economic pathways between 2015 and 2050. Mammal habitat declined globally by 5%–16% depending on the scenario.