Rehabilitation And Restoration Of Degraded Forests
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Book Description
IUCN - The World Conservation Union and WWF - The Conservation Organization have been working with a range of other partners since 1999 to promote an approach called Forest Landscape Restoration. Their aim, through both practical projects and the provision of credible policy advice, is to promote ecological integrity and enhance human well-being in deforested or degraded forest landscapes by: * offering an approach to forest restoration that includes improving rural livelihoods: * producing a wide range of goods and services, rather than simply planting tress; * linking forest restoration and rehabilitation activities at the site level with the environmental, social and economic needs at the landscape and ecoregional level; * recognizing and attempting to balance land-use trade-offs; and * providing a multi-sector approach that ensures the participation of interest groups in decision-making.Much needs to be done to turn Forest Landscape Restoration from an idea that is implemented in a few pilot areas into mainstream practice that is adopted and promoted by governments and the private sector. Nevertheless, we hope that the approach can enhance the contribution of forests to rural poverty reduction, increase the productive capacity and commercial viability of existing land-use systems, minimize long-term, environmental and economic risk, improve ecosystem services, ensure greater habitat connectivity, mitigate against threats to forested areas and enhance biodiversity conservation.This book provides an important contribution towards the objectives of Forest Landscape Restoration and is essential reading for practitioners and decision makers involved in forest restoration.
Rehabilitation and Restoration of Degraded Forests (Issues in Forest Conservation),Don Gilmour,David Lamb,Island Press,2831706688,Agriculture - Forestry,Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Trees & Forests - General,Applied ecology,Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
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