Forest Landscape Restoration

Stephanie Mansourian is an environmental consultant with a special interest in the restoration of forested landscapes and governance challenges related to large scale forest restoration. For five years she managed WWF International’s forest landscape restoration programme. As a consultant since 2004, she has been involved in a range of international environmental work including studying lessons from past FLR work, analysis of the SDGs, assessing governance challenges of FLR, as well as broader environmental project development and evaluation work. She has a PhD in Geography from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, where she is also a research associate. John Parrotta is the national programme leader for international science issues with the USDA Forest Service’s Research & Development branch, and currently serves as a vice-president of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). His research experience and publications include work related to tropical forest ecology, silviculture, forest restoration, and traditional forest-related knowledge. He is a coordinating lead author of the 2018 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) thematic assessment report on land degradation and restoration.

"By highlighting the complexity surrounding the FLR process, this volume makes a compelling case for a more multidisciplinary approach to large scale landscape reforestation. Therefore, it is highly recommended reading for foresters, ecologists, and conservation biologists. Acknowledging and dealing with these complexities may perhaps slow down the FLR process in the short term, but may enhance successful forest restoration in the longer term. This is of utmost importance if we want to counter global warming." - Olivier Honnay, The Quartertly Review of Biology (June 2019)"Mansourian and Parrotta have produced a delightful book, addressing many of my own concerns about the relative lack of attention in forestry, but particularly in forest restoration, to the lives of peoples living in and near the areas being ‘restored’....The book is readable and offers valuable advice for those considering restoring a landscape – a topic much in the news within the forestry field of late. Its emphasis on better integrating human and biophysical concerns in restoration is rare and welcome. I would also recommend it for any college or graduate class that will be dealing with restoration, landscape or forest management, and environmental conservation and development." - Carol Colfer, International Forestry Review (2020)

• Part I: Why Integration Matters 1. The Need for Integrated Approaches to Forest Landscape Restoration 2. Integration for Restoration: Reflecting on Lessons Learned from Past Silo Strongholds 3. Considering Diverse Knowledge Systems in Forest Landscape Restoration 4. Power, Inequality and Rights: A Political Ecology of Forest Restoration Part II: Approaches, Systems and Processes 5. Social-Ecological Systems and Forest Landscape Restoration 6. Integrated Landscape Approaches to Forest Restoration 7. Forest Landscape Restoration and Land Sparing-Sharing: Shifting the Debate towards Nature’s Contribution to People 8. Linking forest conservation and food security through agroecology: insights for Forest Landscape Restoration Part III: Integrated Decision-Making in Forest Landscape Restoration 9. Stakeholders and Forest Landscape Restoration: Who decides what to restore, why and where? 10. Tenure, Property Rights and Forest Landscape Restoration 11. Polycentric Governance and Forest Landscape Restoration: Considering Local Needs, Knowledge Types, and Democratic Principles 12. Integration of Traditional and Western Knowledge in Forest Landscape Restoration Part IV: Synthesis and Conclusions 13. Putting the Pieces Together: Integration for Forest Landscape Restoration Implementation