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Land Restoration
Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future
Addresses solutions to land restoration and related topics, such as human security, development, and water and air pollution, providing practical on-the-ground examples
Ilan Chabay (Edited by), Martin Frick (Edited by), Jennifer Helgeson (Edited by)
9780128012314, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 27 November 2015
598 pages
23.4 x 19 x 3.3 cm, 1.41 kg
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.
Foreword Governing Land Restoration: Four Hypotheses Introduction Part 1 Social contexts of land restoration Chapter 1.1 Land Degradation as a Security Threat Amplifier: The New Global Frontline Chapter 1.2 Land Degradation and Its Impact on Security Chapter 1.3 (Em)Powering People: Reconciling Energy Security and Land-Use Management in the Sudano-Sahelian Region Chapter 1.4 Enabling Governance for Sustainable Land Management Part 2 Concepts and Methodologies for restoration and maintenance Chapter 2.1 Tenets of Soil and Landscape Restoration Chapter 2.2 Stabilization of Sand Dunes: Do Ecology and Public Perception Go Hand in Hand? Chapter 2.3 Trust Building and Mobile Pastoralism in Africa Chapter 2.4 Land Degradation from Military Toxins: Public Health Considerations and Possible Solution Paths Chapter 2.5 Flood and Drought Prevention and Disaster Mitigation: Combating Land Degradation with an Integrated Natural Systems Strategy Chapter 2.6 Environmental Security, Land Restoration, and the Military: A Case Study of the Ecological Task Forces in India Chapter 2.7 Releasing the Underground Forest Part 3 Soil, Water, and Energy – The Relationship to Land Restoration Chapter 3.1 Computational Policy Support Systems for Understanding Land Degradation Effects on Water and Food Security for and from Africa Chapter 3.2 The Value of Land Restoration as a Response to Climate Change Part 4 Economics, Policy, and Governance of Land Restoration Chapter 4.1 The Importance of Land Restoration for Achieving a Land Degradation-Neutral World Chapter 4.2 Transforming Land Conflicts into Sustainable Development: A Case of the Taita Taveta of Kenya Chapter 4.3 Case Study: Taranaki Farm Regenerative Agriculture. Pathways to Integrated Ecological Farming Chapter 4.4 Regenerating Agriculture to Sustain Civilization Chapter 4.5 Land Degradation: An Economic Perspective Chapter 4.6 Four Returns, Three Zones, 20 years: A Systemic Approach to Scale Up Landscape Restoration by Business and Investors to Create a Restoration Industry Chapter 4.7 Restoring Degraded Ecosystems by Unlocking Organic Market Potential: Case Study from Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe Chapter 4.8 A Continuing Inquiry into Ecosystem Restoration: Examples from China’s Loess Plateau and Locations Worldwide and Their Emerging Implications Part 5 The Community as a Resource for Land Restoration Chapter 5.1 Poverties and Wealth: Perceptions, Empowerment, and Agency in Sustainable Land Management Chapter 5.2 All Voices Heard: A Conflict Prevention Approach to Land and Natural Resources Part 6 Gender in the Context of Land Restoration Chapter 6.1 Land Restoration, Agriculture, and Climate Change: Enriching Gender Programming Through Strengthening Intersectional Perspectives Chapter 6.2 Gender Roles and Land Use Preferences – Implications to Landscape Restoration in Southeast Asia Part 7 Communities, Restoration, and Resilience Chapter 7.1 Drought-Management Policies and Preparedness Plans: Changing the Paradigm from Crisis to Risk Management Chapter 7.2 Not the Usual Suspects: Environmental Impacts of Migration in Ghana’s Forest-Savanna Transition Zone Chapter 7.3 The Global Restoration Initiative Part 8 Selected Case Studies Chapter 8.1 Indigenuity: Reclaiming Our Relationship with the Land Chapter 8.2 Land Restoration and Community Trust: Keys to Combating Poverty Chapter 8.3 Shifting from Individual to Collective Action: Living Land’s Experience in the Baviaanskloof, South Africa Chapter 8.4 Development and Success, For Whom and Where: The Central Anatolian Case Chapter 8.5 Sharing Knowledge to Spread Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Part 9 Suggestions for Ways to Use this Book Chapter 9.1 Buffets, Cafes, or a Multicourse Meal: On the Many Possible Ways to Use this Book Part 10 Concluding Remarks and a Way Forward Chapter 10.1 Concluding Remarks
Subject Areas: Landscape gardening [WMQL], Conservation of the environment [RNK], Applied ecology [RNC], Land & real estate law [LNSH]
