Forest restoration projects have become increasingly common around the world and many
studies have accumulated in this field during the last decades. Forest restoration means …

While the commitment to protect and restore forest ecosystems has become a policy goal in
many countries since the Rio Conference, there is still no general consensus on what …

This chapter seeks to describe the need to adapt the forest restoration to the different
regional environmental filters and the different ecological opportunities of the landscapes …

Many of the world's forests are not primeval; forest restoration aims to reverse alterations
caused by human use. Forest restoration (including reforestation and forest rehabilitation) is …

The need to repair habitat and restore forest structure and function is recognized throughout
the temperate and boreal zones as a component of sustainable forest management (Dobson …

An estimated 2 billion ha of forests are degraded globally and global change suggests even
greater need for forest restoration. Four forest restoration paradigms are identified and …

The discussion of ideas, methods, scientific results, empirical practices and perspectives on
the restoration of high diversity tropical and subtropical forest formations is the objective of …

The forest restoration challenge (globally 2 billion ha) and the prospect of changing climate
with increasing frequency of extreme events argues for approaching restoration from a …

Historical conditions that provide a natural legacy for defining restoration targets are not
applicable without adjusting these targets to expected future conditions. Prestoration …

Many restoration efforts have ended in failure (see “Forest Landscape Restoration in
Context”). Some of the reasons for this relate to their limited scope, their lack of engagement …