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Making Forest and Landscape Restoration Happen: Policy Goals and Knowledge Gaps
Robin L. Chazdon, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, David Lamb, Lars Laestadius, Miguel Calmon, Chetan Kumar
Momentum is building for large-scale restoration all over the world
2 billion hectares worldwide
Planting trees is easy
Restoring landscapes is NOT easy
Forest landscape restoration (FLR): the long-term process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across
deforested or degraded forest landscapes
Large-scale (land-use mosaics, watersheds)
Forward-looking
Focus on restoring provision of ecosystem goods and services
Active engagement of local stakeholders
Suite of restoration approaches
Adapted to local context
Complements existing land uses
farmers
rural and traditional communities
urban community
coorporate landowners
forestry and agricultural agencies
national government
Policy goal:Reversing effects of
degradation through a widespread, long-
lasting process
How can we build capacity to inform, train,
promote, and monitor FLR through our
extension services?
How will FLR improve the provision of water and water
quality in our cities?
How can we pay for restoration and overcome the opportunity costs of restoring degraded land on our farms?
How can FLR provide jobs, promote local knowledge and culture, improve livelihoods,
and increase ecosystem services for us?
What institutional frameworks and
collaborative arrangements are needed to develop and
implement effective and long-lasting FLR policies?
How can FLR offset the environmental impact caused by my business
activities?
Knowledge comes from many sources and is disseminated in many ways
Thank you!
farmers and landowners
national government
Policy goal:Mobilize sufficient
financial resources to sustain the
implementation of FLR
How can landholders receive financial benefits from
restoration, including from payments from the generation
of ecosystem services?
How can funding from diverse bi-lateral and multi-lateral
development assistance sources be coordinated, distributed, and
managed to maximize overall benefits and cost effectiveness?
How can private enterprise
and financial institutions work
with local municipalities and
landowners to finance
restoration and generate new
revenues?
corporate landowners and financial institutions
farmers and landowners
national government
Policy goal:Develop appropriate interventions to suit
different types of ecological and economic
circumstances
What are the effects of different restoration interventions on the rates at
which ecosystem services recover and on
the tradeoffs and synergies among them,
at different spatial scales?
How do the spatial configuration
and extent of restored ecosystems
influence biodiversity and overall
provision of ecosystem services
within a landscape matrix?
Under what conditions is
natural regeneration a viable
restoration approach
compared to planting?
forestry and agricultural agencies
farmers and landownersnational government
Policy goal:Prioritize lands that are
most in need of restoration and where restoration will bring
greatest benefits
Where are the intersections between areas
where the need for ecosystem services is
greatest and where restoration could significantly increase the supply of these
ecosystem services?
What tools and local knowledge are
needed to configure landscapes that
combine ecosystem restoration,
productive land uses, food-water-
energy security, biodiversity
conservation, and poverty alleviation?
What definition of degradation
and which expected benefits could be used to identify and
map priority areas for
restoration?
forestry and agricultural agencies