Forest Landscape Restoration Integrating Natural and Social Sciences

Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stanturf, John (Editor), Lamb, David (Editor), Madsen, Palle (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2012, 2012
Edition:1st ed. 2012
Series:World Forests
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • 1. What is Forest Landscape Restoration?
  • 2. What Can Landscape Ecology Contribute to Forest Landscape Restoration?
  • 3. Landscape Management
  • 4. Hydrologic Connectivity of Landscapes and Implications for Forest Restoration
  • 5. Connecting Landscape Fragments Through Riparian Zones
  • 6. Understanding Landscapes through Spatial Modeling
  • III. Social Science Perspectives
  • 7. Forest Landscape Restoration Decision-Making and Conflict Management: Applying Discourse-Based Approaches
  • 8. Alternative Approaches to Urban Natural Areas Restoration: Integrating Social and Ecological Goals
  • 9. Urban Forest Landscape Restoration - Applying Forest Development Types in Design and Planning
  • 10 Watershed-Scale Adaptive Management: A Social Science Perspective
  • 11. The Economics of Restoration
  • 12, Wild Ennerdale: A Cultural Landscape
  • IV. Integrated Perspectives
  • 13. The Role of Forest Landscape Restoration in Supporting a Transition Towards More Sustainable Coastal Development
  • 14. Broad-Scale Restoration of Landscape Function With Timber, Carbon and Water Investment
  • 15. Challenging a Paradigm: Toward Integrating Indigenous Species into Tropical Plantation Forestry
  • 16. Forest Landscape Restoration: Restoring What and for Whom?