Land Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future

Land Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future provides a holistic overview of land degradation and restoration in that it addresses the issue of land restoration from the scientific and practical development points of view. Furthermore, the breadth of chapter topics and contributors cover the topic and a wealth of connected issues, such as security, development, and environmental issues. The use of graphics and extensive references to case studies also make the work accessible and encourage it to be used for reference, but also in active field-work planning. Land Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future brings together practitioners from NGOs, academia, governments, and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) to exchange lessons to enrich the academic understanding of these issues and the solution sets available. Provides accessible information about the science behind land degradation and restoration for those who do not directly engage with the science allowing full access to the issue at hand.Includes practical on-the-ground examples garnered from diverse areas, such as the Sahel, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.A.Provides practical tools for designing and implementing restoration/re-greening processes. INDICE: Section 1: Social contexts of land restoration 1.1 Land and Soil Degradation as a Security Threat Amplifier - The New Global Frontline 1.2 Land Degradation and Its Impact on Security 1.3 (Em)powering People: Reconciling Energy Security and Land-Use Management in the Sudan-Sahelian Region 1.4. Preserving Life and Land: Enabling Governance for Sustainable Land Management; Securing Rights and Restoring Land Section 2: Concepts and Methodologies for restoration and maintenance 2.1 Tenets of Soil and Landscape Restoration 2.2 Improving Soil Quality at Low Cost - The Case of Brazilian Farmers 2.3 Stabilization of Sand Dunes: Do Ecology and Public Perception Go Hand in Hand? 2.4 Trust-building and Mobile Pastoralism in Africa 2.5 Overlooked Aspects of Land Degradation from Pollution and Other Human Activities: Problems and Potential Solution Paths 2.6. Flood and Drought Prevention and Disaster Mitigation - Combating Land Degradation with Integrated Natural Systems Strategy in Wadi Hadramut, Yemen: A Proposed Model for the MENA/GCC Region 2.7 Human and Environmental Security Implications of Mining in India: Land Restoration in Kudremukh as a Case Study 2.8 Releasing the Underground Forest: Case studies and preconditions for human movements that restore land with the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) method Section 3: Soil, Water, and Energy - The Relationship to Land Restoration 3.1 Computational Policy Support Systems for Understanding Land Degradation Effects on Water and Food Security for and from Africa 3.2 Land Restoration as a Response to Climate Change Section 4: Economics, Policy, and Governance of Land Restoration 4.1 Transforming Land Conflict into Sustainable Development: A Case of the Taita Taveta of Kenya 4.2 The Importance of Land Restoration for Achieving a Land Degradation Neutral World 4.3 Case Study: Taranaki Farm Regenerative Agriculture 4.4 Regenerating Agriculture to Sustain Civilization 4.5 The Economics of Land Degradation: Creating Awareness of the Economic Potential of Sustainable Land Management 4.6 Four Returns, Three Zones, 20 years. A Systemic and Practical Approach to Scale Up Landscape Restoration by Business and Investors and Create a Restoration Industry 4.7 Restoring Degraded Ecosystems by Unlocking Organic Market Potential: Case Study from Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe Section 5: Community as a Resource for Land Restoration 5.1 Poverties and Wealth: Perceptions, Empowerment and Agency in Sustainable Land Management 5.2 All Voices Heard - A Conflict Prevention Approach to Land and Natural Resources  Section 6: Gender in the Context of Land Restoration 6.1 A Journey across Gender and Resilience Research Applied to Land Management 6.2 Gender-specific Perspectives, Roles and Land Use Preferences - Implications for Landscape Restoration in Southeast Asia Section 7: Communities, Restoration, and Resilience 7.1 Drought Management Policies and Preparedness Plans: Moving from Crisis to Risk Management 7.2 Not the Usual Suspects: Environmental Impacts of Migration in Ghana's Forest-Savanna Transition Zone 7.3 Land Restoration - An Opportunity for Indigenous Livelihoods, Water & Climate Protection Section 8: Selected Case Studies 8.1 Indigenuity: Food Security and Land Restoration, the Water and Food Awards 8.2 Community Trust, the Heart of Effective Land Restoration - Case Studies from Grassroots Development in Western India 8.3 Shifting from Individual to Collective Action: Living Land's Experience in the Baviaanskloof, South Africa 8.4 Development and Success, for Whom and Where: The Past and Present Central Anatolian Case 8.5 WOCAT Case Studies

• ISBN: 978-0-12-801231-4
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2015
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés