TY - JOUR
T1 - Forest landscape restoration under global environmental change
T2 - Challenges and a future roadmap
AU - Noulèkoun, Florent
AU - Mensah, Sylvanus
AU - Birhane, Emiru
AU - Son, Yowhan
AU - Khamzina, Asia
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This study was carried out with the support of ´R&D Program for Forest Science Technology (Project No. 2020181A00-2122-BB01)´ provided by Korea Forest Service (Korea Forestry Promotion Institute). The support of the BK21 (Brain Korea 21 Program for Leading Universities and Students) FOUR program (Grant No. 4120200313708) funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), the support of the NRF Grant No. 2019R1I1A1A01064336 and the support of O-Jeong Resilience Institute (OJERI) are all gratefully acknowledged.
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PY - 2021/3
Y1 - 2021/3
N2 - The adverse impacts of ecosystem degradation have raised the need for forest landscape restoration (FLR) to be included in international sustainability agendas. However, the path towards successful FLR implementation faces numerous biophysical, socioeconomic and governance challenges because FLR operates within complex socioecological systems. In the present study, we review and discuss FLR challenges in the context of global environmental change. We propose a roadmap consisting of five interlinked steps to overcome these challenges: (1) advancing ecological knowledge supporting FLR, (2) adapting FLR management to environmental change through strengthening globally distributed experimental networks, (3) implementing modelling approaches, (4) improving socioeconomic and governance dimensions, and (5) developing evidence-based knowledge platforms. The roadmap offers an iterative and adaptive framework for the continuous evaluation and improvement of FLR strategies and outcomes.
AB - The adverse impacts of ecosystem degradation have raised the need for forest landscape restoration (FLR) to be included in international sustainability agendas. However, the path towards successful FLR implementation faces numerous biophysical, socioeconomic and governance challenges because FLR operates within complex socioecological systems. In the present study, we review and discuss FLR challenges in the context of global environmental change. We propose a roadmap consisting of five interlinked steps to overcome these challenges: (1) advancing ecological knowledge supporting FLR, (2) adapting FLR management to environmental change through strengthening globally distributed experimental networks, (3) implementing modelling approaches, (4) improving socioeconomic and governance dimensions, and (5) developing evidence-based knowledge platforms. The roadmap offers an iterative and adaptive framework for the continuous evaluation and improvement of FLR strategies and outcomes.
KW - Environmental change
KW - Evidence-based platform
KW - Functional restoration
KW - Participatory monitoring
KW - Silvicultural management
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102590035&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/f12030276
DO - 10.3390/f12030276
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85102590035
SN - 1999-4907
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 13
JO - Forests
JF - Forests
IS - 3
M1 - 276
ER -