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Forests and trees are crucial for human wellbeing, sustainable development, and ultimately, life on Earth. The critical ecosystem services that forests provide are widely acknowledged, yet their provision is seriously threatened by continuing deforestation and forest degradation.
Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development utilizes a multidisciplinary perspective to analyze and discuss the various opportunities and challenges of restoring tree and forest cover. It examines forest restoration commitments, policies and programs, their implementation at different scales and contexts, and how forest restoration helps to mitigate environmental, societal, and cultural challenges. This book explores how restoration affects forest ecosystem services, contributes to biodiversity conservation, and generates benefits and synergies, while recognizing the considerable costs, tradeoffs, and variable feasibility of its implementation.
The chapters review forest restoration governance, practices, and technological advances, and reflect on the possibility of sustainable and just approaches to meet the challenges that lie ahead to achieve ambitious international forest restoration targets and commitments.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, and Georg Winkel: Introduction: Restoring forests and trees for sustainable development
Chapter 2: Wil de Jong, Takuya Takahashi, Georg Winkel, Agata Konczal, Nathaniel Anderson, and David Andrew Wardell: Forest flickers of history. Early modern woodland restoration and how it shapes postmodern options
Chapter 3: Daniela Kleinschmit, Mareike Blum, Maria Brockhaus, Mawa Karambiri, Markus Kröger, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Sabine Reinecke, and Symphorien Ongolo: Forest (landscape) restoration governance: Institutions, interests, ideas, and their interlinked logics
Chapter 4: Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Susan Chomba, Anne M. Larson, and Fergus Sinclair: Decolonial environmental justice in landscape restoration
Chapter 5: César Sabogal, Jürgen Blaser, Kenichi Shono, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Rene Zamora Cristales, Almeida Sitoe, Tania Ammour, Adeline Dontenville, Mélanie Feurer, Jelena Markovic, Christophe Besacier, Silvio Simonit, Benjamin de Ridder, and Orjan Jonsson: Regional variation in forest landscape restoration
Chapter 6: Daniel Kübler and Sven Günter: Forest restoration for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Chapter 7: Rens Brouwer, Frans Bongers, Marielos Peña-Claros, Pieter A. Zuidema, Pedro Brancalion, Madelon Lohbeck, Alejandra Hernández Guzmán, Alan Heinze, Joannès Guillemot, Koen Kramer, and Douglas Sheil: Forest restoration, biodiversity, and ecosystem services
Chapter 8: Houria Djoudi, Ida N.S. Djenontin, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer: Making forest landscape restoration work for livelihoods and well-being of local communities
Chapter 9: Pablo Pacheco, Craig Beatty, and Jwalin Patel: An economic view on the costs and benefits of forest restoration
Chapter 10: Rodney J. Keenan, Bas Louman, David Brand, Hemant Ojha, and Luo Xi: Financial, ecological, political, and social feasibility of forest restoration targets
Chapter 11: John A. Stanturf, R. Kasten Dumroese, Stephen Elliott, Vladan Ivetic, Watit Khokthong, Michael Kleine, Mait Lang, Magnus Löf, Palle Madsen, Cindy Prescott, and Timothy Young: Advances in forest restoration management and technology
Chapter 12: Wil de Jong, Pia Katila, Georg Winkel, Pablo Pacheco, Glenn Galloway, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer: Sustainable and fair forest and land restoration: Balancing goals, interests, and trade-offs
Chapter 1: Pia Katila, Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco, and Georg Winkel: Introduction: Restoring forests and trees for sustainable development
Chapter 2: Wil de Jong, Takuya Takahashi, Georg Winkel, Agata Konczal, Nathaniel Anderson, and David Andrew Wardell: Forest flickers of history. Early modern woodland restoration and how it shapes postmodern options
Chapter 3: Daniela Kleinschmit, Mareike Blum, Maria Brockhaus, Mawa Karambiri, Markus Kröger, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Sabine Reinecke, and Symphorien Ongolo: Forest (landscape) restoration governance: Institutions, interests, ideas, and their interlinked logics
Chapter 4: Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen, Susan Chomba, Anne M. Larson, and Fergus Sinclair: Decolonial environmental justice in landscape restoration
Chapter 5: César Sabogal, Jürgen Blaser, Kenichi Shono, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Rene Zamora Cristales, Almeida Sitoe, Tania Ammour, Adeline Dontenville, Mélanie Feurer, Jelena Markovic, Christophe Besacier, Silvio Simonit, Benjamin de Ridder, and Orjan Jonsson: Regional variation in forest landscape restoration
Chapter 6: Daniel Kübler and Sven Günter: Forest restoration for climate change mitigation and adaptation
Chapter 7: Rens Brouwer, Frans Bongers, Marielos Peña-Claros, Pieter A. Zuidema, Pedro Brancalion, Madelon Lohbeck, Alejandra Hernández Guzmán, Alan Heinze, Joannès Guillemot, Koen Kramer, and Douglas Sheil: Forest restoration, biodiversity, and ecosystem services
Chapter 8: Houria Djoudi, Ida N.S. Djenontin, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer: Making forest landscape restoration work for livelihoods and well-being of local communities
Chapter 9: Pablo Pacheco, Craig Beatty, and Jwalin Patel: An economic view on the costs and benefits of forest restoration
Chapter 10: Rodney J. Keenan, Bas Louman, David Brand, Hemant Ojha, and Luo Xi: Financial, ecological, political, and social feasibility of forest restoration targets
Chapter 11: John A. Stanturf, R. Kasten Dumroese, Stephen Elliott, Vladan Ivetic, Watit Khokthong, Michael Kleine, Mait Lang, Magnus Löf, Palle Madsen, Cindy Prescott, and Timothy Young: Advances in forest restoration management and technology
Chapter 12: Wil de Jong, Pia Katila, Georg Winkel, Pablo Pacheco, Glenn Galloway, and Carol J. Pierce Colfer: Sustainable and fair forest and land restoration: Balancing goals, interests, and trade-offs
