David Lamb

Large-scale Forest Restoration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Landscapes are being degraded and simplified across the globe. This book explores how forest restoration might be carried out to increase landscape heterogeneity, improve ecological functioning and restore ecosystem services in such landscapes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780415663182
• ISBN-10: 0415663180
• Artikelnr.: 40845742

Autorenporträt

David Lamb taught forest ecology at the University of Queensland, Australia, for 30 years and has since undertaken consultancy work on forest restoration for a range of international organizations and aid agencies, including the World Bank, FAO, AusAID and GTZ. He is a member of the Commissiono n Ecosystem Management of IUCN.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The need for large-scale forest restoration
2. Lessons from the last hundred years
3. Natural forest regrowth
4. Types of planted forests
5. Where in the landscape should forest restoration take place?
6. How much forest restoration is needed?
7. Creating multi-functional landscapes: choices and trade-offs
8. Making it happen: policies and institutions
9. Final discussion