Forest Restoration in Landscapes: Beyond Planting Trees Book

Forest landscape restoration in context -Overview of forest restoration strategies and terms -Impact of forest loss and degeneration on biodiversity -The impacts of degradation and forest loss on human well-being and its social and political relevance for restoration -Restoring forest landscapes in the face of climate change -Restoration as a strategy to contribute to ecoregion visions -Why do we need to consider restoration in a landscape context? -Addressing trade-offs in forest landscape restoration -An attempt to develop a framework for restoration planning -Assessing and addressing threats in restoration programmes -Perverse policy incentives -Land ownership and forest restoration -Challenges for forest landscape restoration based on WWF's experience to date -Goals and targets of forest landscape restoration -Identifying and using reference landscapes for restoration -Mapping and modelling as tools to set targets, identify opportunities and measure progress -Policy intervention -Negotiating and conflict resolution -Practical interventions that will support restoration in broad scale conservation based on WWF experiences -Monitoring forest restoration projects in the context of an adaptive management style -Monitoring and evaluating forest restoration success -Opportunities for long-term financing of forest restoration in landscapes -Payment for environmental services and restoration -Carbon knowledge projects and forest landscape restoration -Marketing and communications opportunities: how to promote and market forest landscape restoration -Restoring quality in existing native forest landscapes -Restoring soil and ecosystem processes -Active restoration of boreal habitats for target species -Restoration of deadwood as a critical microhabitat in forest landscapes -Restoration of protected area values -Using non-timber forest products to trigger habitat restoration -A historical account of fuelwood restoration efforts -Restoring water quality and quantity -Restoring landscapes for traditional cultural values -Overview of technical approaches to restoring tree cover at the site level -Stimulating natural regeneration -Managing and directing natural succession -Selecting tree species for plantation -Developing fire breaks -Agroforestry as a tool for forest landscape restoration -Restoring dry tropical forests -Restoring tropical moist broadleaf forests -Restoring tropical montane forests -Restoring floodplain forests -Restoring Mediterranean forests -Restoring temperate forests -Forest landscape restoration after fires -Restoring forests after violent storms -Managing the risk of invasive alien species in restoration -First steps in erosion control -Restoring forests after land abandonment -Restoring overlogged tropical forests -Opencast mining reclamation -The role of commercial plantations in forest landscape restoration -Attempting to restore biodiversity in even-aged plantations -Best practices for industrial plantations -What has WWF learned about restoration at an ecoregional scale -Local participation, livelihood needs and institutional arrangements: three keys to sustainable rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest lands -A way forward: Working together towards a vision for restored forest landscapes