Peatland Restoration and Ecosystem Services
Science, Policy and Practice

An interdisciplinary book tackling the challenges of managing peatlands and their ecosystem services in the face of climate change.

Aletta Bonn (Edited by), Tim Allott (Edited by), Martin Evans (Edited by), Hans Joosten (Edited by), Rob Stoneman (Edited by)

9781107619708, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 23 June 2016

510 pages, 92 b/w illus. 36 tables
24.5 x 17.3 x 2.9 cm, 1 kg

Peatlands provide globally important ecosystem services through climate and water regulation or biodiversity conservation. While covering only 3% of the earth's surface, degrading peatlands are responsible for nearly a quarter of carbon emissions from the land use sector. Bringing together world-class experts from science, policy and practice to highlight and debate the importance of peatlands from an ecological, social and economic perspective, this book focuses on how peatland restoration can foster climate change mitigation. Featuring a range of global case studies, opportunities for reclamation and sustainable management are illustrated throughout against the challenges faced by conservation biologists. Written for a global audience of environmental scientists, practitioners and policy makers, as well as graduate students from natural and social sciences, this interdisciplinary book provides vital pointers towards managing peatland conservation in a changing environment.

List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword Julia Marton-Lefèvre
1. Peatland restoration and ecosystem services - an introduction Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, Martin Evans, Hans Joosten and Rob Stoneman
Part I. Peatland Ecosystems Services: 2. Peatlands across the globe Hans Joosten
3. Peatland biodiversity and its restoration Tatiana Minayeva, Olivia Bragg and Andrey Sirin
4. The role of peatlands in climate regulation Hans Joosten, Andrey Sirin, John Couwenberg, Jukka Laine and Pete Smith
5. Peatland restoration and hydrology Jonathan Price, Chris Evans, Martin Evans, Tim Allott and Emma Shuttleworth
6. Peatlands as knowledge archives Benjamin Geary and Ralph Fyfe
7. Peatlands and cultural ecosystem services Kerry A. Waylen, Robert van de Noort and Kirsty L. Blackstock
Part II. Perspectives on Peatland Restoration: 8. Peatlands and climate change Angela V. Gallego-Sala, Robert K. Booth, Dan Charman, Colin Prentice and Zicheng Yu
9. Blanket mire restoration and its impact on ecosystem services Tim Thom, Martin Evans, Chris Evans and Tim Allott
10. Restoration of temperate fens: matching strategies with site potential Wiktor Kotowski, Michael Ackerman, Ab Grootjans, Agata Klimkowska, Holger Rößling and Bryan Wheeler
11. A conceptual framework for ecosystem restoration applied to industrial peatlands Martha D. Graf and Line Rochefort
12. Afforested and forestry-drained peatland restoration Russell Anderson, Harri Vasander, Neville Geddes, Anna Laine, Anne Tolvanen, Aileen O'Sullivan and Kaisu Aapala
13. Restoration of high altitude peatlands on the Ruoergai Plateau (Northeastern Tibetan Plateau, China) Xiaohong Zhang, Martin Schumann, Yongheng Gao, J. Marc Foggin, Shengzhong Wang and Hans Joosten
14. Ecosystem services, degradation and restoration of peat swamps in the Southeast Asian tropics René Dommain, Ingo Dittrich, Wim Giesen, Hans Joosten, Dipa Satriadi Rais, Marcel Silvius and Iwan Tri Cahyo Wibisono
Part III. Socio-economic and Political Solutions to Managing Natural Capital and Peatland Ecosystem Services: 15. International carbon policies as a new driver for peatland restoration Hans Joosten, John Couwenberg and Moritz von Unger
16. Valuing peatland ecosystem services Sabine Wichmann, Luke Brander, Achim Schäfer, Marije Schaafsma, Pieter van Beukering, Dugald Tinch and Aletta Bonn
17. Paludicultures: sustainable productive use of wet and rewetted peatlands Hans Joosten, Greta Gaudig, Franziska Tanneberger, Sabine Wichmann and Wendelin Wichtmann
18. Peatland conservation at the science-practice interface Joseph Holden, Aletta Bonn, Mark Reed, Sarah Buckmaster, Jonathan Walker, Martin Evans and Fred Worrall
19. Policy drivers for peatland conservation Rob Stoneman, Clifton Bain, David Locky, Nick Mawdsley, Michael McLaughlan, Shashi Kumaran-Prentice, Mark Reed and Vicky Swales
20. Peatland restoration and ecosystem services – nature-based solutions for societal goals Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, Martin Evans, Hans Joosten and Rob Stoneman
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Environmental management [RNF], Applied ecology [RNC], The environment [RN], Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning [R], Biology, life sciences [PS]