Reforesting Landscapes

Author : Harini Nagendra,Jane Southworth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402096563

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Reforesting Landscapes by Harini Nagendra,Jane Southworth Pdf

The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world’s forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover. Yet to date, there is no volume which synthesises current knowledge on the extent, trends, patterns and drivers of reforestation. This edited volume draws together research from leading researchers to explore reforestation and forest regrowth across the world, from multiple dimensions – including ecosystem services, protected areas, social institutions, economic transitions, remediation of environmental problems, conservation and land abandonment – and at different scales. Detailing the methods and analyses used from across a wide range of disciplines, and incorporating research from North, South and Central America, Africa, Asia and Europe, this groundbreaking book provides a global overview of current trends, explores their underlying causes and proposes future forest trajectories. The first of its kind, the book will provide an invaluable reference for researchers and students involved in interdisciplinary research and working on issues relevant to the biophysical, geographic, socioeconomic and institutional processes associated with reforestation.

Author : Harini Nagendra,Jane Southworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1402096674

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Author : Harini Nagendra,Jane Southworth
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1402096550

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Reforesting Landscapes by Harini Nagendra,Jane Southworth Pdf

The 21st century has seen the beginnings of a great restoration effort towards the world’s forests, accompanied by the emergence of an increasing literature on reforestation, regeneration and regrowth of forest cover. Yet to date, there is no volume which synthesises current knowledge on the extent, trends, patterns and drivers of reforestation. This edited volume draws together research from leading researchers to explore reforestation and forest regrowth across the world, from multiple dimensions – including ecosystem services, protected areas, social institutions, economic transitions, remediation of environmental problems, conservation and land abandonment – and at different scales. Detailing the methods and analyses used from across a wide range of disciplines, and incorporating research from North, South and Central America, Africa, Asia and Europe, this groundbreaking book provides a global overview of current trends, explores their underlying causes and proposes future forest trajectories. The first of its kind, the book will provide an invaluable reference for researchers and students involved in interdisciplinary research and working on issues relevant to the biophysical, geographic, socioeconomic and institutional processes associated with reforestation.

Author : Stephanie Mansourian,Daniel Vallauri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387291123

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Forest Restoration in Landscapes by Stephanie Mansourian,Daniel Vallauri Pdf

This book, published in cooperation with WWF International, integrates the restoration of forest functions into landscape conservation plans. The contents represent the collective body of knowledge and experience of WWF and its many partners - collected here for the first time. This guide will serve as a first stop for practitioners and researchers in many organizations and regions, and as a key reference on the subject.

Author : Stephanie Mansourian,John Parrotta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351620338

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Forest Landscape Restoration by Stephanie Mansourian,John Parrotta Pdf

Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is a planned process that aims to regain ecological integrity and enhance human wellbeing in deforested or degraded landscapes. The aim of this book is to explore options to better integrate the diverse dimensions - spatial, disciplinary, sectoral, and scientific - of implementing FLR. It demonstrates the value of an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to help implement FLR focusing specifically on four issues: understanding the drivers of forest loss and degradation in the context of interdisciplinary responses for FLR; learning from related integrated approaches; governance issues related to FLR as an integrated process; and the management, creation and use of different sources of knowledge in FLR implementation. The emphasis is on recognising the need to take human and institutional factors into consideration, as well as the more obvious biophysical factors. A key aim is to advance and accelerate the practice of FLR, given its importance, particularly in a world facing increasing environmental challenges, notably from climate change. The first section of the book presents the issue from an analytical and problem-orientated viewpoint, while later sections focus on solutions. It will interest researchers and professionals in forestry, ecology, geography, environmental governance and landscape studies.

Author : Stewart Maginnis,Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken,Alastair Sarre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136553998

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The Forest Landscape Restoration Handbook by Stewart Maginnis,Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken,Alastair Sarre Pdf

Forest loss and degradation have caused a decline in the quality of ecosystem services around the world. But fixing the problem takes more than just planting trees; practitioners increasingly realize that a landscape approach is essential. This handbook, authored and edited by international authorities in the field of forestry, is the first practical guide to using forest landscape restoration (FLR) to repair the damage done to forest lands by poor land management practice. Using research backed by respected institutions such as ITTO and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), it explains how to increase the resilience of landscapes and the communities they support through FLR. The main aim of FLR is not to re-establish pristine forest, even if this were possible; rather, the objective is to make landscapes more resilient and thereby keep future management options open. It also aims to support communities as they strive to increase and sustain the benefits they derive from land management. This book explains the concept of FLR and guides the reader through the steps that must be taken to put it into practice. It is an indispensable aid for practitioners in all aspects of forestry and natural resource management.

Author : David Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781135096052

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Large-scale Forest Restoration by David Lamb Pdf

Landscapes are being degraded and simplified across the globe. This book explores how forest restoration might be carried out to increase landscape heterogeneity, improve ecological functioning and restore ecosystem services in such landscapes. It focuses on large, landscape-scale reforestation because that is the scale at which restoration is needed if many of the problems that have now developed are to be addressed. It also shows how large-scale forest restoration might improve human livelihoods as well as improve conservation outcomes. A number of governments have undertaken national reforestation programs in recent years; some have been more successful than others. The author reviews these to explore what type of reforestation should be used, where this should be carried out and how much should be done. For example, are the traditional industrial forms of reforestation necessarily the best to use in all situations? How can forest restoration be reconciled with the need for food security? And, are there spatial thresholds that must be exceeded to generate economic and environmental benefits? The book also examines the policy and institutional settings needed to encourage large-scale reforestation. This includes a discussion of the place for incentives to encourage landholders to undertake particular types of reforestation and to reforest particular locations. It also considers forms of governance that are likely to lead to an equitable sharing of the costs and benefits of forest restoration.

Author : John Stanturf,David Lamb,Palle Madsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400753266

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Forest Landscape Restoration by John Stanturf,David Lamb,Palle Madsen Pdf

Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a practical approach to forest restoration particularly in developing countries, where an approach which is both large-scale and focuses on meeting human needs is required. Yet despite increased investigation into both the biological and social aspects of FLR, there has so far been little success in systematically integrating these two complementary strands. Bringing experts in landscape studies, natural resource management and forest restoration, together with those experienced in conflict management, environmental economics and urban studies, this book bridges that gap to define the nature and potential of FLR as a truly multidisciplinary approach to a global environmental problem. The book will provide a valuable reference to graduate students and researchers interested in ecological restoration, forest ecology and management, as well as to professionals in environmental restoration, natural resource management, conservation, and environmental policy.

Author : Thomas K. Rudel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780231558549

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Reforesting the Earth by Thomas K. Rudel Pdf

Forests offer a natural solution to the climate crisis. Conserving and expanding them not only removes carbon from the atmosphere but also protects and fosters biodiversity. Yet the results of elite-driven reforestation initiatives have been disappointing, and in many world regions deforestation continues relentlessly. Thomas K. Rudel examines a wide range of conservation and reforestation efforts to shed new light on the social factors that lead to success. He details effective coalition-building strategies and organizational models that have protected, restored, and expanded forests around the world. Rudel argues that successful reforestation projects bring together diverse groups of people with a stake in the land and a commitment to collective decision making. They give voice to different economic and social interests, including small farmers, Indigenous peoples, loggers, ranchers, government officials, NGO personnel, international donors, and climate activists. These varied coalition members each make commitments to promote forests. Farmers limit the extent of lands under cultivation, governments protect land tenure for smallholders, and wealthy donors make payments for environmental protections. Timely and accessible, Reforesting the Earth offers a guide to scaling up local efforts to sequester carbon and makes a powerful case for a global reforestation movement.

Author : João C. Azevedo,Ajith H. Perera,M. Alice Pinto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493909537

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Forest Landscapes and Global Change by João C. Azevedo,Ajith H. Perera,M. Alice Pinto Pdf

Climate change, urban sprawl, abandonment of agriculture, intensification of forestry and agriculture, changes in energy generation and use, expansion of infrastructure networks, habitat destruction and degradation, and other drivers of change occur at increasing rates. They affect patterns and processes in forest landscapes, and modify ecosystem services derived from those ecosystems. Consequently, rapidly changing landscapes present many new challenges to scientists and managers. While it is not uncommon to encounter the terms “global change” and “landscape” together in the ecological literature, a global analyses of drivers of change in forest landscapes, and their ecological consequences have not been addressed adequately. That is the goal of this volume: an exploration of the state of knowledge of global changes in forested landscapes with emphasis on causes and effects, and challenges faced by researchers and land managers. Initial chapters identify and describe major agents of landscape change: climate, fire, and human activities. The next series of chapters address implications of changes on ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation and carbon flux. A chapter that describes methodologies of detecting and monitoring landscape changes is presented followed by chapter that highlights the many challenges forest landscape managers face amidst of global change. Finally, we present a summary and a synthesis of the main points presented in the book. Each chapter will contain the individual research experiences of chapter authors, augmented by review and synthesis of global scientific literature on relevant topics, as well as critical input from multiple peer reviewers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Afforestation
ISBN : 9782831706641

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Forest Landscape Restoration by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Employees
ISBN : OCLC:254994937

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Employee Performance by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Stanturf,Palle Madsen,David Lamb
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400753389

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A Goal-Oriented Approach to Forest Landscape Restoration by John Stanturf,Palle Madsen,David Lamb Pdf

While restoration ecology has traditionally aimed to re-create some putative more ‘natural’ ecological state, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged over the last decade as an approach aimed more at restoring natural functions, while focusing on meeting human needs. With a view to exploring the practical potential of this approach, this book draws together a team of experts from the natural and social sciences to discuss its success so far in addressing critical issues such as biodiversity, ecological function, and human livelihoods. Applying principles of landscape ecology, restoration ecology, planning theory and conflict management, the book presents a series of case studies which document the approach, and discusses how the approach can help with priority setting for the future. The book will provide a valuable reference to graduate students and researchers interested in ecological restoration, forest ecology and management, as well as to professionals in environmental restoration, natural resource management, conservation, and environmental policy.

Author : Florencia Montagnini,Christopher Finney
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Forest restoration
ISBN : 1611221315

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Restoring Degraded Landscapes with Native Species in Latin America by Florencia Montagnini,Christopher Finney Pdf

Today, reforestation in Latin America is more than planting trees in formerly forested landscapes. Rather, reforestation with native trees, in both mixed and pure plantations, can restore degraded pasturelands and can also foster regeneration under the plantations canopies. The planted trees can later be harvested, and the released understory can provide a regenerating forest to be managed for future economic profits, as well as biodiversity and other environmental services. Reforestation strategies can also include non-timber forest products with economic, medicinal, social and aesthetic values and services. This book discusses the economic and ecological benefits of forest restoration in Latin America.

Author : Catarina C. Jakovac,Madelon Lohbeck,Debora Cristina Rother
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889714452

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Enhancing Natural Regeneration to Restore Landscapes by Catarina C. Jakovac,Madelon Lohbeck,Debora Cristina Rother Pdf