landscape modelingforest restorationsouthern pine beetleLANDIS modeldesired future forest conditionssouthern Appalachian MountainsRestoration planning, evaluation, and implementation are important in areas where abiotic disturbances (e.g., wildfires, hurricanes, and ice storms), biotic disturbances (e.g., ...
The scope and current investment for forest landscape restoration (FLR) is great, as are the demands put upon it for improving livelihoods and well-being. International leaders have pledged 350 Mha for FLR as part of international sustainability agendas. FLR is implemented primarily through incentives...
The forest landscape restoration (FLR) approach to reforestoration is described, using 3 cases from East Africa: (1) the Shinyanga Soil Conservation Programme in Tanzania; (2) the restoration of over 30 000 ha of Acacia tortilis-dominated woodland in Turkana District, Kenya; and (3) the resto...
Concepts, approaches and challenges for implementation of forest and landscape restoration are discussed. Forest and land degradation is a serious problem worldwide, particularly in developing countries. Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) is an emerging concept that refers to an approach involving sta...
The concept of a 'Forest Development Type' (FDT) provides an adequate framework for advancing and describing ideas about long-term goals for stand structures and dynamics in stands subjected to close-to-nature-based forest management.From a landscape restoration viewpoint, diverse forest ecosystems ...
Erskine, PBlackwell Publishing, LtdLamb, D., and Erskine, P. 2008: Forest restoration at the landscape scale. In, Living in a Dynamic Tropical Forest Landscape, eds. Stork, N. E., and Turton, S. M. pp. 469-484. Blackwell Publishing, Carlton, Victoria, Australia....
There is now an increasing interest and commitment to safeguard and expand the native woodland resource in Britain for landscape and natural heritage value and its restoration is a conservation priority. Unfortunately very little is known about the potential distribution and extent of...
The Landscape Approach to Forest Restoration and Conservation project of Rwanda has a development and global environmental objective to demonstrate landscape management for enhanced environmental services and climate resilience in one priority landscape. The project consists of two components. The first compon...
"If there is political will on the ground, nothing will impede efforts put in by individual countries towards forest landscape restoration," he said. The Bonn Challenge event brought together participants including ministers, environment experts and conservationist from more than 20 African countries tha...
restoration opportunity land in the Global South, including 12% of the total population in low-income countries. Forest landscape restoration that prioritizes local communities by affording them rights to manage and restore forests provides a promising option to align global agendas for climate ...