New book “Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development” sheds light on socioeconomic aspects of restoration
For many decades, restoration science concentrated much of its efforts on ecological and technical aspects, while socioeconomic factors were devoted less attention. This imbalance is shifting as a growing body of literature recognises the importance of social, institutional, economic, cultural and political factors that influence restoration goals and outcomes.
Adopting a multidisciplinary perspective, the new book “Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward” examines forest restoration in light of its different understandings, modalities and political contexts, discussing how those contribute to shaping restoration goals, policies, approaches and related outcomes. Its ten chapters interweave discussions on restoration’s contributions to different ecosystem services with explorations of issues of justice in restoration governance, technological advances, financial aspects and more.
The book comprises 10 chapters, is published by Oxford University Press and edited by Pia Katila, Carol J Pierce Colfer), Wil de Jong, Glenn Galloway, Pablo Pacheco and Georg Winkel.
It is freely accessible and can be viewed at the link below.
Citation: Katila, Pia, and others, ‘Introduction: Restoring forests and trees for sustainable development’, in Pia Katila, and others (eds), Restoring Forests and Trees for Sustainable Development: Policies, Practices, Impacts, and Ways Forward (New York, NY, 2024; online edn, Oxford Academic, 6 Sept 2024), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197683958.003.0001.
