Effective and Long-lasting Tropical Reforestation Requires Holistic Vision and Innovations that Incorporate Social and Ecological Systems
Holistic vision that incorporates social and ecological components of the landscape and the connections between them is essential for effective and long-lasting restoration. There is a clear need for interdisciplinary, systems thinking in restoration. But the field of restoration has yet to adopt this approach broadly in theory or practice.
Holistic vision is especially important for developing innovative approaches and new frameworks that incorporate social and environmental dimensions, including integrating restoration into markets, policies, and regulation structures; using new technologies in a constructive manner; and prioritizing when and where restoration should occur. Holistic vision also means creating a meaningful, constructive and sustained dialog among those working in different spheres of restoration – practitioners, researchers, and policy makers – to understand the constraints and opportunities of each sector and situation.
SUPPORTING PAPERS
- Tropical Restored Forests as Sustainable Production Systems (Brancalion 2016)
- New Frameworks Needed to Balance Costs and Ecological Benefits of Active and Passive Forest Restoration (Brancalion et al. 2016)
- Getting Help from Above: Enlisting Drones to Assist Natural Regeneration and Forest Restoration (Elliot 2016)
- The Value of Community Managed Agroforests and 2nd Growth Forests as Restoration Approaches (Souza et al. 2016)
- Beyond the Biophysical: the Potential for NR Depends on Socio-Economic, Political, and Regulatory Factors (Uriarte & Chazdon 2016)
- Four Key Opportunities for Regulating Markets to Promote Forest and Landscape Restoration (Brancalion et al. 2017)
- Innovations to Bridge the Gap Between Knowledge and Action in Restoration (Brancalion & Melis 2017)
- Viewing Forest Transition Outcomes Through the Lens of Ecosystem Services (Wilson et al. 2017)
- Ecological Restoration in a Changing Biosphere (Reid and Aronson 2017)
- Interactions Among Scientists, Policy-makers, and Practitioners are Urgently Needed to Align Efforts to Restore Ecological Functions and Integrity to Forest Landscapes (Chazdon 2018 Current Conservation)
- Leveraging Nature’s Potential can Increase Cost-effectiveness of Large-scale forest Restoration (Molin et al. 2018)
- Practical Guidelines Aid in Setting Global Restoration Targets in the Lowland Most Tropics (Brancalion et al. 2019)
- A Novel Restoration Prioritization Approach to Save One of the Most Threatened Ecosystems on Earth (Strassburg et al. 2019)
- The Restoration Literature is Diverging Despite the Need to Link Social and Ecological Perspectives (Wilson et al. Forthcoming)