Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "This remains an excellent resource for teachers, students, and practitioners-especially for being open access. In a time when restoration is heralded as a panacea, this book is a timely reminder that the path to equitable, effective restorationlies not just in planting trees, but in planting the right questions." -- Francesco Maria Sabatini, Community Ecology
"This remains an excellent resource for teachers, students, and practitioners-especially for being open access. In a time when restoration is heralded as a panacea, this book is a timely reminder that the path to equitable, effective restoration is not just in planting trees, but in planting the right questions." -- Francesco Maria Sabatini, Community Ecology